August 27
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August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining.
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 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 - Oil 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.
2003 - Mars makes closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
Births
551 BC - Confucius , philosopher (d. 479 BC )
AD 1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu , Ashikaga shogun (d. 1425 )
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , philosopher. (d. 1831 )
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin , Vice President of the United States of America . (d. 1891 )
1858 - Giuseppe Peano , mathematician. (d. 1932 )
1865 - James Henry Breasted , Egyptologist (d. 1935 )
1865 - Charles G. Dawes , the 30th Vice President of the United States (d. 1951 )
1871 - Theodore Dreiser , author (d. 1945 )
1875 - Katharine McCormick , U.S. women's rights activist (d. 1967 )
1886 - Eric Coates , English composer
1890 - Man Ray , photographer, artist (d. 1976 )
1899 - C.S. Forester , author (d. 1966 )
1904 - Norah Lofts , author
1906 - Ed Gein , serial killer (d. 1984 )
1908 - Don Bradman , cricketer (d. 2001 )
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson , 36th President of the United States (d. 1973 )
1909 - Lester Young , jazz musician (d. 1959 )
1910 - Mother Teresa , missionary, humanitarian (d. 1997 )
1916 - Martha Raye , actress (d. 1994 )
1926 - Kristen Nygaard (d. 2002 )
1928 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi , Chief Minister of defunct KwaZulu bantustan , former 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
1968 - John Henry Williams , controversial son of baseball great Ted Williams (d. 2004 )
1970 - Peter Ebdon , English snooker player
1970 - Jim Thome , baseball player
1974 - Jose Vidro , Major League Baseball All-Star
1975 - Jonny Moseley , Olympic Games gold medal winning skier
1976 - Carlos Moya , Spanish tennis player
1976 - Mark Webber , Australian Formula One driver
1977 - Deco , football player
1978 - Ma$e , rapper
1987 - Kenza Chaouai , Canadian actress
Deaths
479 BC - Confucius , ethicist
1521 - Josquin Des Prez , Flemish composer
1572 - Claude Goudimel , French composer
1577 - Titian , artist
1590 - Pope Sixtus V
1635 - Félix Lope de Vega , Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562 )
1875 - William Ralston , American entrepreneur
1909 - Emil Christian Hansen , fermentation physiologist
1929 - Herman Potočnik Noordung , Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics, and rocket engineer
1931 - Frank Harris , author and editor
1948 - Charles Evans Hughes , United States Supreme Court justice.
1963 - Garrett Morgan , inventor
1963 - W.E.B. DuBois , civil rights activist and scholar
1964 - Gracie Allen , actress, comedienne.
1965 - Le Corbusier , Swiss architect (b. 1887 )
1967 - Brian Epstein , manager of The Beatles
1968 - Her Royal Highness Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906 )
1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett , English novelist
1969 - Erika Mann , oldest daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905 )
1971 - Bennett Cerf , publisher, television personality
1975 - Haile Selassie I (Ras Tafari Makonnen ), Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892 )
1976 - Mukesh , singer
1979 - Earl Mountbatten killed by an IRA bomb
1980 - Douglas Kenney , humorist
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan , guitarist
1997 - Brandon Tartikoff , television producer
2002 - Richard Ricci , Utah handyman and religious fanatic suspected of kidnapping 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart
2003 - Pierre Poujade , French politician
Holidays and observances
External links
August 26 - August 28 - July 27 - September 27 -- listing of all days
