Today in History: W. C. Handy publishes "Memphis Blues", considered the 1st blues song

The following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 27:

1912 - W. C. Handy publishes "Memphis Blues", considered the 1st blues song.

1917 – Hilaire-Germaine-Edgar Degas, French artist known as one of the greatest 19th century French artists, died.

1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicated. He was king from 1913-17 and from 1920-22. A military revolt cost him his throne for the second time when Greece failed to defeat Turkey after World War One.

1970 – Jordan’s King Hussein and Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Movement, signed an agreement in Cairo to end Jordan’s civil war.

1996 – Afghanistan’s Taliban movement captured the capital Kabul and hanged the former president Najibullah.

2002 – Tiny East Timor, the world’s newest nation since breaking away from Indonesia after a bloody conflict, joined the United Nations as its 191st member.

2005 – Lynndie England, the U.S. soldier pictured holding a leash to a naked Iraqi inmate at Abu Ghraib prison, was sentenced to three years in prison and given a dishonourable discharge.

2008 – Astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes first Chinese man to walk in space.

2008 – World’s largest hot dog made in Monterrey, northern Mexico.

2012 – Mona Lisa Foundation unveils painting it says proves Leonardo da Vinci painted an earlier version of the iconic Mona Lisa.

2014 – Japan’s Mount Ontake erupts, injuring at least eight people and leaving more than 250 stranded.

(Reuters)