Today in History: September 27, Taliban take power in Afghanistan

In contemporary times is Saturday Sept the th day of There are days left in the year In the modern day in history On Sept the Taliban the extremist Islamic movement in Afghanistan drove the executive of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul the capital and executed former President Najibullah Also on this date In John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War s peace terms with Britain Related Articles In the present day in History September Biosphere stay begins in Arizona Trump to put import taxes on pharmaceutical drugs kitchen cabinets furniture and heavy trucks Hard pass Cold brew Dad bod Merriam-Webster adds over words to Collegiate dictionary Amazon to pay billion to settle FTC accusations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime US home sales remained sluggish in August despite late-summer mortgage rate slide In Warsaw Poland surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II In Germany Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact formally allying the World War II Axis powers In the ruling body publicly circulated the record of the Warren Commission which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F Kennedy In Congress gave its final approval to forming the U S Department of Guidance In President George H W Bush publicized in a televised address that he was eliminating all U S ground-launched battlefield nuclear weapons and called on the Soviet Union to match the gesture In President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone the first conversation between American and Iranian leaders in more than years In Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was percent certain that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers and Kavanaugh then reported senators that he was percent certain he had done no such thing Kavanaugh was substantiated on Oct of that year In R B singer R Kelly was convicted in a sex trafficking trial in New York after numerous accusations of misconduct with young women and children a federal appeals court upheld the convictions and his -year prison sentence in In NASA astronaut Frank Rubio sets a U S record of days in space returning to Earth from the International Space Station with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin In the present day s Birthdays Musician Randy Bachman Bachman-Turner Overdrive is Actor Liz Torres is Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt is Singer and actor Shaun Cassidy is Comedian and podcaster Marc Maron is Actor Gwyneth Paltrow is Actor Indira Varma is Musician-actor Carrie Brownstein is Actor Anna Camp is Rapper Lil Wayne is Musician Avril Lavigne AV -rihl la-VEEN is Actor Jenna Ortega is