27th August
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.
- 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 - A flood in Indonesia kills 36,000 people
- 1900 - British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal
- 1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed by sixty nations
- 1939 - First jet airplane flight
- 1952 - Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutsch marks.
- 1962 - Mariner 2 launched
- 1990 - The British Broadcasting Corporation launches BBC Radio Five at 9am GMT with a mixture of sports, news, and children's programming. The station broadcasts for eighteen hours per day.
- 1991 - Moldova declares independence from the USSR
Births
- 551 BC - Confucius, philosopher (+ 479 BC).
- 1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher. (+ 1831)
- 1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America. (+ 1891)
- 1858 - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician. (+ 1932)
- 1871 - Theodore Dreiser, author (+ 1945).
- 1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer (+ 1974).
- 1890 - Man Ray, photographer, artist (+ 1976).
- 1899 - C.S. Forester, author (+ 1966).
- 1904 - Norah Lofts, author.
- 1906 - Ed Gein, serial killer (+ 1984)
- 1908 - Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States (+ 1973).
- 1908 - Don Bradman, cricketer. (+ 2001)
- 1909 - Lester Young, jazz musician (+ 1959).
- 1910 - Mother Teresa, missionary, humanitarian (+ 1997)
- 1916 - Martha Raye, actress (+ 1994).
- 1926 - Kristen Nygaard. (+ 2002
- 1928 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi (Chief Minister of Kwazulu-natal Province, South Africa).
- 1929 - Ira Levin, author.
- 1932 - Antonia Fraser, author.
- 1935 - Frank Yablans, film producer.
- 1952 - Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman), actor.
- 1975 - Jonny Mosely, Olympic Games gold medal winning skier.
Deaths
- 1577 - Titian, artist
- 1635 - Félix Lope de Vega, playwright.
- 1875 - William Ralston, 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
- 1964 - Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne.
- 1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect
- 1967 - Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles.
- 1968 - Princess Marina Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.
- 1971 - Bennett Cerf, publisher, television personality.
- 1979 - Earl Mountbatten of Burma and three others killed by an IRA bomb.
- 1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, guitarist.
- 1997 - Brandon Tartikoff, television producer.
Holidays and observances
See Also:
August 26 - August 28 - July 27 - September 27 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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