September 27: On This Progressive DayThe Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy (1940)
The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China (1949)
The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy (1964)
The U. S. Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th U.S. Cabinet agency (1979)
In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah (1996)
At U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 21st round of golf as POTUS (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama signs into law a corporate welfare subsidy bill called the "Small Business Jobs and Credit Act" (2010)
b: Daniel Keefe (1852), Anna Burger (1950); d: Walter Benjamin (1940)
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