September 27: on this day in history

Historical events

1. 1540Pope Paul III formally approved the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits.
2. 1669After a siege lasting 21 years, the Venetians surrendered the fortress of Candia on Crete to the Ottomans.
3. 1822Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs with the help of the Rosetta Stone.
4. 1962Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring', describing pesticides' harm to nature, was published.
5. 2007NASA launched Dawn to study Vesta and Ceres in the asteroid belt.

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