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Send This Page To A Friend \| Home What happened today in history? Uncle Woody's Almanac for September 27
2002	Timor-Leste is admitted to the United Nations.
1999	Detroit's Tiger Stadium closes after 87 years of hosting baseball and other sporting events.
1995	The US Treasury unveils its design for a new $100 bill, incorporating a number of anticounterfeiting measures.
1979	Congress approves the establishment of the US Department of Education as a federal cabinet agency.
1970	The final broadcast of The Original Amateur Hour takes place on CBS-TV. During its 22-year run, the show appeared on all three major networks.
1964	The Warren Commission report is issued, stating that JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted without outside help.
1961	Sierra Leone is admitted to the United Nations.
1959	Nearly 5000 people die when a typhoon hits the Japanese island of Honshu.
1954	The Tonight Show, starring Steve Allen, debuts on NBC-TV.
1939	Warsaw, Poland, falls to German and Russian troops during WWII.
1894	New York's Aqueduct horse racing track opens.
1854	The steamship liner Arctic sinks in the Atlantic Ocean, killing 300 people.