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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_27" title="September 27">September 27</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meskel" title="Meskel">Meskel</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Tewahedo" title="Orthodox Tewahedo">Orthodox Tewahedo</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1822" title="1822">1822</a> – In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettre_%C3%A0_M._Dacier" title="Lettre à M. Dacier">a letter</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_des_Inscriptions_et_Belles-Lettres" title="Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres">Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres</a> in Paris, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Champollion" title="Jean-François Champollion">Jean-François Champollion</a> announced his initial successes in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_ancient_Egyptian_scripts" title="Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts">deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs</a></b> on the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone" title="Rosetta Stone">Rosetta Stone</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1851" title="1851">1851</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">British East India Company</a> inaugurated the Horsburgh Lighthouse on the rocky outcrop of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Branca,_Singapore" title="Pedra Branca, Singapore">Pedra Branca, Singapore</a></b>, which later became the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Branca_dispute" title="Pedra Branca dispute">subject of a territorial dispute</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadhurst_Theatre" title="Broadhurst Theatre">Broadhurst Theatre</a></b> opened in New York City with a performance of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misalliance" title="Misalliance">Misalliance</a></i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – Two members of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_political-military" title="ETA political-military">ETA political-military</a> and three members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Antifascist_Patriotic_Front" title="Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front">Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front</a>, sentenced to death for murder, became <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_use_of_capital_punishment_in_Spain" title="Last use of capital punishment in Spain">the last people to be executed in Spain</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983" title="1983">1983</a> – American software developer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman" title="Richard Stallman">Richard Stallman</a> announced plans for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a> operating system <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU" title="GNU">GNU</a></b>, the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a> developed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project" title="GNU Project">GNU Project</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_della_Rovere" title="Felice della Rovere">Felice della Rovere</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1536); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Huber_(writer)" title="Michael Huber (writer)">Michael Huber</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1727); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Vessells_John" title="Alma Vessells John">Alma Vessells John</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1906); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaji_Sadasivan" title="Balaji Sadasivan">Balaji Sadasivan</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2010)</p>