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September 27: This Day in History

Featured Fact, 1988:
Three days after winning first place in the men's 100-meter dash at the Seoul Summer Olympics, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson returned home in disgrace, stripped of his gold medal by officials who said he had used anabolic steroids.

Also Today:
1779: John Adams is named to negotiate peace terms with Britain at the end of the Revolutionary War.
1939: Poland surrenders to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
1964: The Warren Commission concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy.
1979: Congress approves formation of the Department of Education, the 13th Cabinet agency in U.S. history.