Notable Historical Events on August 27th
August 27th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
479 |
Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece is halted. |
BC AD | |
663 |
Remnants of the Korean Baekje Kingdom and their Yamato Japanese allies engage naval forces of the Tang Chinese and Silla Koreans on the Geum River in Korea; - a significant Tang-Silla victory. Japanese won't attempt another Korean invasion until late 16th century. |
1232 |
The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232) |
1549 |
Battle of Dussindale: John Dudley Earl of Warwick destroys Robert Kett's army, ending Kett's rebellion |
1569 |
Pope Pius names Cosimo I de Medici as grand duke of Tuscany |
1585 |
Duke of Parma's troops occupy Antwerp |
1601 |
Olivier van Noort completes first Dutch exploration of new world |
1610 |
Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia |
1619 |
Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia |
1626 |
Battle of Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV |
1628 |
Java sultan Agung of Mataram attacks Batavia |
1634 |
Battle of Nordingen: Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar loses Duchy of Franconia |
1665 |
"Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is first play performed in North America (Acomac, Va) |
1667 |
Earliest recorded hurricane in North America (Jamestown Virginia) |
1689 |
The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire. |
1776 |
British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island |
1783 |
First hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude |
1788 |
Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance |
1789 |
French National Assembly issues "Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen" |
1798 |
Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts the English |
1799 |
British invasion army lands in North-Holland |
1813 |
Battle of Dresden; Napoleon defeats Austrians |
1816 |
Lord Exmouth bombards Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates |
1828 |
Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talks |
1828 |
The Russians defeat the Turks at the Battle of Akhalzic. |
1832 |
Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up |
1859 |
1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake |
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 and kills approximately 40,000 people |
1892 |
NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire |
1894 |
Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court |
1895 |
15th US Men's Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (6-3 6-2 6-4) |
1896 |
Britain defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM) |
1897 |
Roger Bresnahan debuts as Wash Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher) |
1900 |
Gabriel Faures opera/cantata "Prométhée" premieres in Beziers |
1900 |
Battle of Bergendal: General Buller defeats the Boer under general Louis Botha |
1903 |
23rd US Men's Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (6-0 6-3 10-8) |
1908 |
Calgary City Rugby Football Club re-organizes as the Tigers |
1909 |
Jack Chesbro's final Higlander game |
1910 |
Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park |
1910 |
Wash Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit |
1911 |
Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0 |
1912 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes "Tarzan of the Apes" |
1913 |
Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent all-purpose zipper |
1913 |
Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane) |
1914 |
Second day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Germans bombard Usdau |
1914 |
US war reporter Richard H Davis visits Leuven |
1916 |
Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary |
1917 |
Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game |
1918 |
Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army |
1918 |
Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia |
1921 |
J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise |
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 |
42nd US Women's Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (6-2 6-1) |
1928 |
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 60 nations agree to outlaw war |
1932 |
200,000 English textile workers strike |
1932 |
International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam |
1933 |
Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0 |
1934 |
Arlen, Ira Gershwin & Harburgs musical premieres in NYC |
1937 |
Brooklyn 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 |
Two NYC subway trains collide at 116th Street killing 2 and injuring 51 |
1938 |
Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples |
1939 |
Erich Warsitz makes first jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178) |
1939 |
Heinkel He-178 makes first manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion |
1939 |
Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor |
1939 |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands receives German ambassador Grave Zech |
1940 |
Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan) |
1941 |
Shah of Iran abdicates throne favour of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
1942 |
Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy |
1944 |
200 Halifax bombers attack oil installations in Hamburg |
1945 |
US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender |
1948 |
102°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August |
1950 |
1st transmission of a TV programme from continental Europe shown on BBC |
1950 |
General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist |
1952 |
Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2) |
1953 |
"Roman Holiday", starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and Eddie Albert, is released |
1955 |
"Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published |
1955 |
Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts |
1956 |
Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game |
1957 |
Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes |
1957 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1957 |
The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force. |
1958 |
Clark Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at South Atlantic Ocean |
1958 |
USSR launches Sputnik 3 with two dogs aboard |
1960 |
Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5) |
1960 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open |
1961 |
Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line" |
1961 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open |
1962 |
Mariner 2 launched; first probe to fly by Venus |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1965 |
The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley |
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 |
1967 |
Naomi Sims is 1st black model on US cover (Fashion of the Times) |
1967 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open |
1968 |
The Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) organise another protest in the Guildhall's council chamber; immediately after the protest Eamon Melaugh phones the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) and invites them to organise a march in Derry |
1969 |
Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes |
1969 |
Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs) |
1972 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1972 |
US bombs Haiphong, North Vietnam |
1974 |
NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat |
1975 |
1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith) |
1975 |
Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world |
1976 |
Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open |
1977 |
"Chicago" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 947 performances |
1977 |
Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry, Guineau |
1977 |
Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2 |
1978 |
Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion |
1978 |
Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases |
1978 |
Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
1978 |
Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978 |
1979 |
Warrenpoint ambush: 18 British Army soldiers were killed when the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode two roadside bombs as a British convoy passed Narrow Water Castle near Warrenpoint |
1980 |
Chon Doo Hwan elected president of South Korea |
1981 |
Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard sunken Italian liner Andrea Doria |
1981 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1982 |
Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark |
1982 |
Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth |
1983 |
Haiti adopts constitution |
1983 |
US performs nuclear test |
1984 |
US President Ronald 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 US Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round) |
1986 |
38th Emmy Awards presentation - Golden Girls and Cagney & Lacey dominate |
1986 |
Protest erupt in Soweto, South Africa, demonstrating against evictions which had been carried out after an eleven week rent boycott |
1988 |
Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2 |
1989 |
100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings |
1989 |
89th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton |
1989 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
1989 |
Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open |
1990 |
52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq |
1990 |
Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats |
1990 |
Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27) |
1990 |
WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude |
1990 |
Market prices plunge as OPEC nears informal agreement to increase output to cover shortfall due to invasion; cash market trading experiences abrupt decline. |
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 |
1993 |
The Rainbow Bridge connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba is completed. |
1994 |
"Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers NYC after 320 perfs |
1995 |
"Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 204 performances |
1995 |
23rd du Maurier Golf Classic: Jenny Lidback |
1995 |
95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods |
1995 |
Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days |
1996 |
Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Detroit Red Wings to the Tampa Bay Lightning |
2000 |
540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed. |
2001 |
Angelina Jolie is named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva |
2003 |
Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant. |
2006 |
Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash. |
2006 |
58th Emmy Awards: 24, The Office, Kiefer Sutherland & Mariska Hargitay win |
2008 |
Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States |
2012 |
First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity |
2016 |
Federal Judge Curbs Enforcement of North Carolina Transgender Access Law |
2016 |
All Donated Blood in US Will Be Tested for Zika |
2017 |
Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats Conor McGregor by TKO in 10 rounds |
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