Today in History - History - August 27th

1941Shah of Iran abdicates throne favour of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

2008Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States

1813Battle of Dresden; Napoleon defeats Austrians

1961Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open

1922Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)

1989Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship

1960Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open

199595th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

1982Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark

1953"Roman Holiday", starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and Eddie Albert, is released

1957Bernhard Langer, Anhausen, German golfer (two-time Masters champion)

1952Pee-wee Herman, [Paul Reubens], NY, actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)

1906Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)

1908Lyndon B. Johnson, Stonewall Texas, (D) 36th US President (1963-1969), (d. 1973)

1908Donald [George] Bradman, Cootamundra New South Wales, Australian cricketer (6,996 runs)

1947Barbara Bach [Goldbach], Queens, New York, American actress (The Spy Who Loved Me, Force 10 from Navarone)

2005Actor Robert Downey Jr (40) weds producer Susan Levin (31) at the Windy Dune Estat in Amagansett, New York

1930Journalist H. L. Mencken (49) weds author Sara Haardt (32) at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

1965Le Corbusier, [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss/French architect, dies at 77

1990Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35

1312Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)

1963W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana