Today In History: September 27, Christine Blasey Ford Accuses Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Of Sexual Assault

Today is Friday, Sept. 27, the 271st day of 2024. There are 95 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 27, 2018, during a day-long hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford said she was “100 percent” certain that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers, and Kavanaugh then told senators that he was “100 percent certain” he had done no such thing. Also on this date: In 1779, John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War’s peace terms with Britain. In 1903, a Southern Railway mail train derailed near Danville, Virginia, killing 11; the accident inspired the famous ballad, “Wreck of the Old 97.” In 1939, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. In 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, formally allying the World War II Axis powers. In 1964, the government publicly released the report of the Warren Commission, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President John F.