Today in History Today is Sunday, Sept. 27, the 271st day of 2020. There are 95 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On September 27, 1964, the government publicly released the report of the Warren Commission, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy. On this date: In 1779, John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War’s peace terms with Britain. In 1825, the first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England. In 1917, French sculptor and painter Edgar Degas died in Paris at age 83. In 1939, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. In 1956, Olympic track and field gold medalist and Hall of Fame golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias died in Galveston, Texas, at age 45. In 1979, Congress gave its final approval to forming the U.S. Department of...
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