September 27 is:
Crush a Can Day
National Chocolate Milk Day
National Corned Beef Hash Day
The term “hash” is derived from the French word “hacher” which means “to chop”. Hash consists of chopped or diced meat, potatoes, and spices. Corned beef gets its name from the treatment of meat with “corns” of salt, because the salt halts the growth of bacteria by taking out moisture. Corned beef hash became popular because during and immediately after WWII when fresh meat was rationed while corned meat was more available.
Birthday of Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722), American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Samuel Adams along with John Hancock founded the secret society the Sons of Liberty in 1765.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania was the capital of the United States, for one day – September 27, 1777 – when the Continental Congress fled Philadelphia, which had been captured by the British. After meeting one day, they moved still farther away, to York, Pennsylvania.
September 27, 1821 – Mexico gained independence from Spain.
From Today in Science
In 1892, book matches were patented by Joshua Pusey of Lima, Ohio, No. 483165. He subseqerntly sold the patent rights to the Diamond Match Company of Barberton, Ohio. The Diamond Match Company was formulated as a conglomerate and built by absorbing a number of smaller match manufacturing companies. They were also the first company involved in book match making of any significance. In 1895, production exceeded 150,000 matchbooks a day. Diamond’s objective was to produce a quality matchbook for sale to the public (not given freely as was traditional fifty years later). The first Diamond matchbooks assembled were a dangerous and flimsy novelty, but they were improved. Later, they were sold to companies and carried their advertising.
1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².
1979 – The United States Department of Education received final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency when the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. It was given an annual budget of $12 billion. Per the Dept. of Education/ govline.co As of 2018 the Department employed 4000 people and had a budget of $70 billion.