September 27: World Tourism Day
Ford Model T
- 1422 – The Treaty of Melno was signed, establishing the Prussian–Lithuanian border, which afterwards remained unchanged for about 500 years.
- 1822 – In a letter to the Paris Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Jean-François Champollion announced his initial successes in deciphering the Rosetta Stone.
- 1825 – Locomotion No. 1 hauled the train on the opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public railway to use steam locomotives.
- 1908 – The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan became the first factory to produce Ford Model T automobiles (pictured), which would later be built at many other factories in the US and around the world.
- 1983 – Software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the Unix-like GNU operating system, the first free software developed by the GNU Project.
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