On Sept. 27, 1825, in England, George Stephenson operated the first locomotive to pull a passenger train.

Amtrack passenger train Number 58 (R) pulls along side Union Pacific 4014 Big Boy Steam Locomotive at the Amtrak station in St. Louis in 2021. On September 27, 1825, in England, George Stephenson operated the first locomotive (not pictured) to pull a passenger train. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI UPI

Today is Sunday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2026 with 95 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune and Saturn. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury and Venus.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include statesman Samuel Adams in 1722; actor Jayne Meadows in 1919; filmmaker Arthur Penn in 1922; actor William Conrad in 1920; actor Wilford Brimley in 1934; World Golf Hall of Fame member Kathy Whitworth in 1939; Mishal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, emir of Kuwait, in 1940 (age 86); musician Randy Bachman (Guess Who/Bachman-Turner Overdrive) in 1943 (age 83); actor Liz Torres in 1947 (age 79); musician/actor Meat Loaf in 1947; actor A Martinez in 1948 (age 78); Baseball Hall of Fame member Mike Schmidt in 1949 (age 77); actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa in 1950; actor/musician Shaun Cassidy in 1958 (age 68); Speed Skating Hall of Fame member Beth Heiden in 1959 (age 67); musician Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind) in 1964 (age 61); musician Mark Calderon (Color Me Badd) in 1970 (age 56); actor Gwyneth Paltrow in 1972 (age 54); actor Indira Varma in 1973 (age 53); musician Brad Arnold (3 Doors Down) in 1978; musician Lil Wayne in 1982 (age 44); actor Anna Camp in 1982 (age 44); musician Avril Lavigne in 1984 (age 42); model/actor Arielle Vandenberg in 1986 (age 40); actor Thomas Mann in 1991 (age 35); actor Jenna Ortega in 2002 (age 24).

On this date in history:

In 1540, the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits, was chartered by the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1825, in England, George Stephenson operated the first locomotive to pull a passenger train.

In 1938, Queen Elizabeth christened the world's largest ocean liner with her own name during a ceremony in Scotland. The Queen Elizabeth was the sister ship of the Queen Mary, which was christened four years earlier.

In 1939, after 19 days of heavy air raids and artillery bombardment, Polish defenders of Warsaw surrendered to German forces.

In 1954, The Tonight Show made its television debut with host Steve Allen.

In 1964, the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was released after a 10-month investigation, concluding that there was no conspiracy and that Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, acted alone.

In 1998, Gerhard Schroeder led Germany's Social Democratic Party to victory in parliamentary elections, bringing to an end 16 years of power by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his Christian Democratic Party.

In 2008, Zhai Zhigang left the Shenzhou VII spacecraft and became the first Chinese astronaut to take a space walk.

In 2010, Jimi Heselden, 62, manufacturer of the upright Segway scooter, was killed when he apparently lost control of one of the two-wheeled, self-balancing machines and ran over a cliff into a river.

In 2014, Mount Ontake, Japan's second highest volcano, erupted in a cloud of ash, killing 63 people, many of them hikers.

In 2017, Thailand's Supreme Court ruled unanimously to sentence former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to five years in prison for failing to report false and corrupt government-to-government sales in a rice-pledging scheme.

In 2021, a federal jury in Brooklyn found singer R. Kelly guilty on charges he sexually assaulted women and girls for years. A judge sentenced him to 30 years in prison.

In 2023, members of the Writers Guild of America returned to work after a 146-day strike. The guild, which has some 11,000 members, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reached a tentative deal the previous weekend.

In 2024, an Israeli airstrike on Beirut killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

A thought for the day: "I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality." -- Mexican artist Frida Kahlo