27 August History


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  • 1626    -    The Danes are crushed by the Catholic League in Germany, marking the end of Danish intervention in European wars.
  • 1776    -    The Americans are defeated by the British at the Battle of Long Island, New York.
  • 1793    -    Maximilien Robespierre is elected to the Committee of Public Safety in Paris, France.
  • 1813    -    The Allies defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Dresden.
  • 1861    -    Union troops make an amphibious landing at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
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  • 1862    -    As the Second Battle of Bull Run rages, Confederate soldiers attack Loudoun County, Virginia.
  • 1881    -    New York state's Pure Food Law goes into effect to prevent "the adulteration of food or drugs."
  • 1894    -    The United States congress passes an income tax law as part of a general tariff act, but it is found unconstitutional.
  • 1910    -    Thomas Edison demonstrates the first "talking" pictures–using a phonograph–in his New Jersey laboratory.
  • 1912    -    Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes first appears in a magazine.
  • 1916    -    Italy declares war on Germany.
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  • 1928    -    Fifteen nations sign the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, outlawing war and calling for the settlement of disputes through arbitration. Forty-seven other countries eventually sign the pact.
  • 1941    -    The Prime Minister of Japan, Fumimaro Konoye, issues an invitation for a meeting with President Roosevelt.
  • 1945    -    B-29 Superfortress bombers begin to drop supplies into Allied prisoner of war camps in China.
  • 1963    -    Cambodia severs ties with South Vietnam.
  • 1979    -    Lord Mountbatten is killed by an Irish terrorist bomb in his sail boat in Sligo, Ireland.
  • 1989    -    Chuck Berry performs his tune Johnny B. Goode for NASA staff in celebration of Voyager II's encounter with the planet Neptune.
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  • 27 August Birthdays

  • 1770    -    George William Hegel, German idealist philosopher.
  • 1871    -    Theodore Dreiser, novelist (Sister Carrie).
  • 1899    -    C.S. Forester, novelist and author of the Horatio Hornblower series.
  • 1908    -    Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States (1963-1969).
  • 1910    -    Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta and Nobel Peace Prize winner.