@rh18bold:Today in History

Today is Thursday, September 27, the 270th day of 2007. There are 95 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1939, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance and three days and nights of constant bombardment to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

In 1940, the Tripartite Pact between Germany, Italy and Japan was signed in Berlin.

In 1996, Afghanistan's Taliban movement captured the capital Kabul and hanged from a lamp-post the former president Dr. Najibullah. The Communist strongman had relinquished power in the face of warlord advances in 1992 and had been in a UN compound ever since.

Thought for Today

"I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time." — "Josh Billings" (Henry Wheeler Shaw), American humorist (1818-1885).