It happenned on a… 27 September

The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.

Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) set a major league baseball record when he hit his 70th home run of the season.

Gilles Villeneuve signs a 2 year contract to drive Formula One with Ferrari.

Radio station CKAC starts broadcasting at Montreal.

Henry Ford’s first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².

Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.