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2023

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

2013

Singer Lorde releases her debut album, “Pure Heroine.”

1998

Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hits his 70th home run of the season, shattering the previous Major League Baseball record.

Google launches its Internet search engine.

1977

Racing driver Gilles Villeneuve signs a two-year contract to race for the Ferrari Formula 1 team.

1973

Barbra Streisand releases the song “The Way We Were.” It is named Song of the Year by Billboard in 1974.

1923

Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees hits his first home run of his 493-home-run career.

1922

The CKAC radio station airs its first broadcasts.

1908

Henry Ford unveils the Ford Model T at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan

1905

In the journal Annalen der Physik, Albert Einstein publishes the paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?” This is the first time he introduces the equation E=mc².

1898

Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi jump into a barrel and plunge down Niagara Falls, becoming the only people to survive this feat.

It happened on… September 27

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