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Today in History: September 27
1540
The Society of Jesus, a religious order under Ignatius Loyola, is approved by the Pope.

1669
The island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea falls to the Ottoman Turks after a 21-year siege.

1864
Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson and his henchmen, including a teenage Jesse James, massacre 20 unarmed Union soldiers at Centralia, Missouri. The event becomes known as the Centralia Massacre.

1869
Wild Bill Hickok, sheriff of Hays City, Kan., shoots down Samuel Strawhim, a drunken teamster causing trouble.

1920
Eight Chicago White Sox players are charged with fixing the 1919 World Series.

1944
Thousands of British troops are killed as German forces rebuff their massive effort to capture the Arnhem Bridge across the Rhine River in Holland.

1964
The Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, issues its report, stating its conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman.

2007
NASA launches Dawn probe to explore and study the two larges objects of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres.

2020
Houston officials confirm water supply around Lake Jackson, Texas, contaminated with brain-eating amoeba after death of six-year-old boy

2021
NASA/USGS Landsat-9 earth-observing satellite launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

Born on September 27
1722
Samuel Adams, American revolutionary patriot and statesman, helped to organize the Boston Tea Party.

1840
Thomas Nast, caricaturist, creator of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.

1947
Meat Loaf, singer, songwriter (Bat Out of Hell album trilogy), actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fight Club).

1958
Shaun Cassidy, singer ("Da Doo Ron Ron"), actor, TV producer / creator, screenwriter (American Gothic).

JOTD
A blonde walks into a shop and wants a pair of alligator boots.

The shopkeeper tells her they do not sell expensive items to blondes.
After becoming very frustrated with the shopkeepers attitude the blonde declares. FINE ILL JUST GO CATCH AN ALLIGATOR AND GET MY OWN BOOTS!
The shopkeeper replied why don't you just try young lady with a smirk.
So the blonde heads out to the swamp absolutely determined to catch an alligator. Later in the day the shopkeeper drives by and noticed the Young lady waist deep in water with a shotgun in her hands.
He stops and watches as a very large alligator swims right at her. With lighting fast reflexes she throws the gun up and shoots the alligator killing it instantly.
He keeps watching as she drags the alligator to a pile of 6 or 7 more. As he rolls down the window to ask why she needs so many Gators for one pair of boots she rolls it over and shouts.
AHHHH THIS ONES BAREFOOT TOOO!