August 27

August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

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

• Roman Empire - Volturnalia held in honor of Volturnus
• Moldova - Independence Day (the national holiday)

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August 26 - August 28 - July 27 - September 27 -- listing of all days

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