TODAY IN HISTORY

On Sept. 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.

Also on this date

In 1854,

the first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurred when the steamship SS Arctic sank off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survived.

In 1939,

Warsaw surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.

In 1941,

the United States launched the first 14 rapidly built “Liberty” military cargo vessels.

In 1979,

Congress gave its final approval to forming the U.S. Department of Education.

In 1994,

more than 350 Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to sign the “Contract with America,” a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.

In 1996,

in Afghanistan, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.

In 2016,

scientists announced the first baby born from a controversial new technique that combined DNA from three people — the mother, the father and an egg donor. (The goal was to prevent the child from inheriting a fatal genetic disease from his mother.)

In 2018,

during a day-long hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford said she was “100%” certain that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers, and Kavanaugh then told senators that he was “100% certain” he had done no such thing; Republicans quickly scheduled a recommendation vote for the following morning.

Ten years ago:

Israel gave the goahead for construction of 1,100 new Jewish housing units in east Jerusalem; the announcement met with swift criticism from the United States and the European Union.

Five years ago:

The United States provided another $364 million in humanitarian aid to Syrians as their nation’s civil war appeared to be getting worse.

One year ago:

Louisville, Kentucky, saw its fifth night of protests after a grand jury declined to charge officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

UPI Chief Justice Earl Warren hands President Lyndon Johnson a copy of the report on the Kennedy assassination. The report was made public Sept. 27, 1964.