August 27
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August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years). There are 126 days left in the year.
[edit] Births
- 551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (died 479 BC)
- AD 1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Ashikaga shogun (died 1425)
- 1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (died 1831)
- 1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America. (died 1891)
- 1858 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (died 1932)
- 1865 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (died 1935)
- 1865 - Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States (died 1951)
- 1871 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (died 1945)
- 1874 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
- 1875 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (died 1967)
- 1886 - Eric Coates, English composer
- 1890 - Man Ray, photographer and artist (died 1976)
- 1899 - C.S. Forester, British author (died 1966)
- 1904 - Norah Lofts, author
- 1906 - Ed Gein, serial killer (died 1984)
- 1908 - Don Bradman, cricketer (died 2001)
- 1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (died 1973)
- 1909 - Lester Young, jazz musician (died 1959)
- 1910 - Mother Teresa, missionary, humanitarian (died 1997)
- 1911 - Kay Walsh, British actress (died 2005)
- 1916 - Martha Raye, actress (died 1994)
- 1926 - Kristen Nygaard (died 2002)
- 1928 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Chief Minister of KwaZulu and South African Minister of Home Affairs.
- 1929 - Ira Levin, author
- 1932 - Antonia Fraser, author
- 1935 - Frank Yablans, film producer
- 1952 - Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman), actor
- 1957 - Bernhard Langer, German golfer
- 1970 - Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
- 1970 - Jim Thome, baseball player
- 1974 - Jose Vidro, Major League Baseball player
- 1975 - Jonny Moseley, American skier
- 1976 - Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player
- 1976 - Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
- 1977 - Deco, footballer
- 1978 - Ma$e, rapper
[edit] Deaths
- 1975 - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
- 2006 - Maria Esther de Capovilla, Worlds oldest woman
[edit] Events
- 479 BC - Battle of Plataea ends the Persian invasion of Greece, Mardonius routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army.
- 55 BC - Julius Caesar Lands in Britain for the first time.
- AD 410 - Vandal sack of Rome ends after three days.
- 1776 - Battle of Long Island, in present day Brooklyn, New York British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington
- 1813 - Napoleon defeats the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden
- 1828 - The Russians defeat the Turks at Akhaltzikke.
- 1859 - Petroleum discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania. World's first successful oil well.
- 1861 - Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
- 1883 - The after effects caused by the Krakatau explosion in Indonesia kills 36,000 people.
- 1896 - The shortest war in the world - 9:02 - 9:40 between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar
- 1900 - British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal
- 1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed by sixty nations
- 1939 - First jet aircraft flight
- 1952 - Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks.
- 1962 - Mariner 2 launched
- 1979 - An IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers.
- 1990 - The British Broadcasting Corporation launches BBC Radio Five Live at 9am GMT with a mixture of sports, news, and children's programming. The station broadcasts for eighteen hours per day.
- 1991 - The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 1991 - Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
- 1993 - The Florida DOT decides to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it can make use of Federal funds for those signs.
- 2000 - Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
- 2003 - Mars makes closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.