It happened on a… September 27

2023

Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. reacts after stealing his 70th base of the season during a game against the Chicago Cubs in Atlanta, Georgia. Acuña is the only player in Major League Baseball history to steal 70 bases and hit 40 home runs during a single season.

2013

Lorde releases her debut studio album “Pure Heroine”.

1998

The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.

Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) set a major league baseball record when he hit his 70th home run of the season.

1977

Gilles Villeneuve signs a 2 year contract to drive Formula One with Ferrari.

1973

“The Way We Were” single released by Barbra Streisand (Billboard Song of the Year 1974)

1923

NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs

1922

Radio station CKAC starts broadcasting at Montreal.

1908

Henry Ford’s first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

1905

The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².

1898

Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.