1938 Sep 27, Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was launched at Glasgow. The RMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest passenger liner built to that date, boasted a 200,000-horsepower engine and beautiful art deco style. The elegant ocean liner was named to honor Queen Elizabeth, a consort of King George VI of England and mother to Queen Elizabeth II.

1971 Sep 27, Pamela Churchill Harriman (1920-1997), English-born socialite, married her former lover and former New York Governor Averell Harriman (79). She was the former wife (1939-1946) of Randolph Churchill, the son of Winston Churchill. From 1993-1997 she served as the US ambassador to France.

2004 Sep 27, The body of Maxina Danner (17), a student at Lincoln High, was found wrapped in a blanket near Visitacion Ave. and Mansell. She had disappeared that morning on her way to school. In 2005 Royce Miller (21), a youth councilor at a group home, was arrested in connection with the murder. In 2007 Miller was convicted of 2nd degree murder.

2009 Sep 27, A New Zealand teen, Cherelle May Dudfield (18), flashed her breasts at passing cars and ended with up in a hospital after a distracted driver ran into her. In Dec she was found guilty of disorderly behavior for the prank and was fined $198.
2013 Sep 27, In San Francisco Kevin San (16) was killed after Jennie Zhu (58) crashed her speeding Mercedes into a minivan. On Dec 16 Zhu was charged with felony gross vehicular manslaughter.

2014 Sep 27, In India Jayaram Jayalalitha, a charismatic former actress who later joined politics and became the top elected official in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, was sentenced to four years in prison after a court found her guilty of corruption in a case filed 18 years ago.

2014 Sep 27, Liberia's chief medical officer, Bernice Dahn, placed herself under quarantine for 21 days after her office assistant died of Ebola.