Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 27

Battle at Plataeae: Greece attack Persians
Full Moon Eclipse of the moon causes panic on Nicias and Athens
Origin of Egyptian Era
1232 : Kioto Staatsraad accept Joei Legislation
1549 : Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army
1569 : Pope Pius names Cosimo I de' Medici, grand duke of Toscane
1585 : Duke van Parma's troops occupy Antwerp
1601 : Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world
1610 : Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
1619 : Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia
1626 : Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV
1628 : Java sultan Agung van Mataram attacks Batavia
1634 : Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Fran
1665 : Ye Bare & Ye Cubb is 1st play, performed in N America (Acomac,
1667 : Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
1669 : First cyclone recorded in America at Jamestown, VA.
1776 : British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1783 : 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned) in Paris, France; reaches
1788 : Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
1789 : French Natl Assembly issues Decl of Rights of Man & Citizen
1798 : Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
1799 : English invasion army lands in North-Holland
1813 : Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
1816 : Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
1828 : Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talk
1832 : Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1859 : 1st successful oil well drilled in America, near Titusville, Pen
1861 : Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft Clark
1862 : Battle of Cub Run, VA
1881 : Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die
1883 : Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
1884 : A Borrelly discovers asteroid #240 Vanadis
1889 : The metal clarinet patented by Charles Gerard Conn of Elkhart, I
1892 : NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1894 : Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a gradu
1894 : income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1896 : England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM) -
1897 : A Charlois discovers asteroid #427 Galene
1897 : Roger Bresnahan debuts as Wash Senator pitcher (later HOF catche
1900 : Battle at Bergendal: Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha
1906 : Max Wolf discovers asteroid #605 Juvisia
1908 : Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers
1909 : Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1910 : play a night game at White Sox Park
1910 : Thomas Alva Edison demonstrates the Kinetophone, machine to reco
1910 : Wash Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit
1911 : Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
1912 : Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan of the Apes
1913 : in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1913 : Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a lo
1914 : 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau
1914 : J Palisa discovers asteroid #794 Irenaea
1914 : US war reporter Richard H Davis visits Leuven
1916 : Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary as a part of World War I
1917 : Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
1918 : as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
1918 : Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission
1918 : Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1921 : J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchi
1922 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #984 Gretia
1922 : Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)
1927 : Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1928 : 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
1928 : Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1932 : 200,000 English textile workers strike
1932 : Intl anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam
1933 : Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle
1933 : Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0
1934 : Arlen, Ira Gershwin & Harburgs musical premieres in NYC
1935 : P Shajn discovers asteroids #1369 Ostanina & #1387 Kama
1937 : Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
1937 : George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
1938 : Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triple
1939 : Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-17
1939 : Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsio
1939 : Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor
1939 : Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
1940 : Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Mil
1940 : First Color TV demonstrated
1940 : G Strommer discovers asteroid #1537 Transylvania
1941 : Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi
1942 : Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1944 : 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg
1945 : US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1950 : 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown o
1950 : General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a commun
1952 : Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
1955 : Guinness Book of World Records 1st published in England
1955 : Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 stri
1956 : Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning gam
1957 : Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
1957 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 : Clark Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to M
1958 : US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1958 : USSR launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1960 : Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
1961 : Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on What's My Line
1962 : Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1962 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1965 : Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
1965 : Bob Dylan booed off stage in NY's Forest Hills
1965 : WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 : Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world
1966 : Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
1966 : Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
1966 : Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the w
1967 : Naomi Sims is 1st black model on US cover (Fashion of the Times)
1969 : Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes
1969 : Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
1971 : First crossing of the Atlantic by speedboat
1972 : US bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
1973 : E F Helin discovers asteroid #2048 Dwornik
1974 : L I Chernykh discovers asteroid #3681 & #7726
1974 : NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
1975 : ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1975 : Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle
1976 : Former doctor Richard Raskind, now female Renee Richards, barred
1976 : S J Bus discovers asteroid #2285 Ron Helin
1977 : Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee
1977 : Chicago closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 947 performances
1977 : off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
1977 : Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers
1978 : Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion
1978 : Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases
1978 : Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1
1979 : #6167 & #7373
1979 : 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland
1979 : N S Chernykh discovers asteroids #3012 Minsk, #3283, #4621 Tambo
1980 : Chon Doo Hwan elected pres of South Korea
1981 : Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
1981 : H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #4761
1981 : P Wild discovers asteroid #4323
1981 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 : Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's
1982 : Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1983 : Haiti adopts constitution
1983 : US performs nuclear test
1984 : President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
1984 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 : 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1985 : Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years & 8 days old is youngest to win a U
1986 : Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1986 : H Debehogne discovers asteroid #4123 & #4939
1987 : #5808 Babel' & #5902 Talima
1987 : L G Karachkina discover asteroid #4556 Gumilyov, #4861 Nemirovsk
1987 : L I Chernykh discovers asteroid #4485 Radonezhskij & #6511
1988 : Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Phila, 4-
1989 : 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1990 : 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1990 : Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
1990 : H E Holt discovers asteroid #8016
1990 : Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
1990 : WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
1991 : Moldavia declares independence from USSR
1992 : CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
1992 : Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson
1993 : Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
1994 : Asteroid #85 Io (í 157 km) eclipses star PPM 199998
1994 : Laughter on the 23rd Floor closes at R Rodgers NYC after 320 p
1995 : Arcadia closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 204 perfor
1995 : Worst fire in NY in 80 years ends after 4 days
2002 : Deputy Prime Minister Mr. L K Advani said that Central Governmen

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