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This day in history: September 27

1. 1964

   The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2, an advanced Cold War tactical strike and reconnaissance aircraft that was later cancelled, made its maiden flight.

2. 1975

   Two members of ETA political-military and three members of the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front, sentenced to death for murder, became the last people to be executed in Spain.

3. 1981

   Iran–Iraq War: Iran broke the Iraqi siege of Abadan by Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh.

4. 1983

   American software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the Unix-like operating system GNU, the first free software developed by the GNU Project.

5. 1988

   Led by pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, the political party National League for Democracy was founded in Burma.

6. 1996

   The Taliban drove Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, tortured and murdered former president Mohammad Najibullah, and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

7. 2014

   Mount Ontake in central Japan unexpectedly erupted, killing 63 people in the nation's deadliest eruption in more than 100 years.

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