What happened on August 27? There are more than 291 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About August 27
August 27 is the 240th day of the year 2024. There are 126 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 35th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Mountain Home, Arkansas 72654 sunrise will occur at 06:36 AM and sunset will occur at 07:45 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Peridot while the mystical birthstone is Diamond.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 155 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For August 27
- 479 BCGreco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea.
- 410The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
- 1172Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.
- 1232The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
- 1593Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.
- 1689The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
- 1776The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
- 1793French counter-revolution: the port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
- 1798Wolfe Tone’s United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.
- 1810Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
- 1813French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
- 1828Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War.
- 1859Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
- 1861Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- 1883The eruption of Krakatoa
- 1896Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
- 1916Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
- 1921The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
- 1922The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.
- 1927Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, “Does the word ‘Persons’in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?”
- 1928The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
- 1939First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft.
- 1943Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
- 1957The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
- 1962The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
- 1969Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.
- 1971An attempted coup fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
- 1975The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
- 1979A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland (see Warrenpoint ambush).
- 1982Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
- 1985The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
- 1991Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
- 1991The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1993The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo’s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
- 2000540 m-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
- 2003Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34646418 mi distant.
- 2003The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
- 2006Comair 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.
- 2009The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
Who Were Born On August 27?
- 1407Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
- 1471George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539)
- 1487Anna of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark (d. 1514)
- 1637Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
- 1665John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
- 1669Anne Marie of Orléans, queen of Italy (d. 1728)
- 1677Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
- 1698Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement (d. 1760)
- 1724John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
- 1730Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788)
- 1770Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
- 1803Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
- 1809Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1891)
- 1812Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian politician (d. 1869)
- 1845Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect (d. 1914)
- 1858Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
- 1865Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1951)
- 1865James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
- 1868Hong Beom-do, Korean independence activist (d. 1943)
- 1870Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (d. 1919)
- 1871Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945)
- 1874Carl Bosch, German chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
- 1875Katharine McCormick, American women’s rights activist (d. 1967)
- 1877Charles Rolls, British co-founder of Rolls-Royce (d. 1910)
- 1877Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
- 1884Vincent Auriol, French President (d. 1966)
- 1886Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
- 1886Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
- 1890Man Ray, American photographer and artist (d. 1976)
- 1895András Alföldi, Hungarian-born historian and archaeologist (d. 1981)
- 1896Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
- 1898Gaspard Fauteux, French Canadian parliamentarian (d. 1963)
- 1899Byron Foulger, American actor (d. 1970)
- 1899C. S. Forester, British author (d. 1966)
- 1903Ferenc Keserű, Hungarian water polo player (d. 1968)
- 1904John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
- 1904Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
- 1905Aris Velouchiotis, Greek leader of the resistance organization Greek People’s Liberation Army (d. 1945)
- 1906Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
- 1908Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985)
- 1908Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
- 1908Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
- 1909Lester Young, American musician (d. 1959)
- 1909Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
- 1911Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
- 1912Gloria Guinness, Mexican socialite and writer(d. 1980)
- 1913Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Russian-born wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
- 1914Heidi Kabel, German actress (d. 2010)
- 1915Norman Foster Ramsey, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
- 1916Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994)
- 1916Tony Harris, South African cricketer (d. 1993)
- 1917Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
- 1918Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1966 until 1967 (d. 2001)
- 1919Murray Grand, American songwriter and cabaret singer (d. 2007)
- 1921Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
- 1921Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
- 1924David Rowbotham, Australian poet
- 1925Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006)
- 1925Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (d. 2011)
- 1926Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
- 1926Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
- 1927Jimmy C. Newman, American Country and Western and Cajun Singer
- 1928Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician
- 1928Péter Boross, Hungarian politician
- 1929Ira Levin, American author (d. 2007)
- 1931Joe Cunningham, American baseball player
- 1931Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru (d. 2007)
- 1932Antonia Fraser, British author
- 1933Jenő Hámori, Hungarian fencer
- 1935Ernie Broglio, American baseball player
- 1935Frank Yablans, American film producer
- 1936Joel Kovel, American politician
- 1937Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
- 1937Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
- 1939Edward Patten, R&B singer with Gladys Knight & the Pips (d. 2005)
- 1939William Least Heat-Moon, American author
- 1940Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
- 1941Harrison Page, American actor
- 1941János Konrád, Hungarian water polo player and swimmer
- 1942Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
- 1942Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (Captain & Tennille)
- 1943Bob Kerrey, former American Governor and Senator
- 1943Tuesday Weld, American actress
- 1944G. W. Bailey, American actor
- 1946Tony Howard, West Indian cricketer
- 1947Barbara Bach, American actress
- 1947Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1947Harry Reems, American actor
- 1947John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer
- 1948Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
- 1949Jeff Cook, vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, fiddle, banjo and mandolin for Alabama
- 1950Charles Fleischer, American actor
- 1951Buddy Bell, American baseball player-manager
- 1951Mack Brown, American University of Texas Head Football Coach
- 1952Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman), American actor
- 1953Alex Lifeson, Canadian guitarist (Rush)
- 1953Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor
- 1954Derek Warwick, British race car driver
- 1954John Lloyd, British tennis player
- 1955Diana Scarwid, American actress
- 1955Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
- 1955Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
- 1957Bernhard Langer, German golfer and two-time Masters champion
- 1957Jeff Grubb, American author and game designer
- 1958Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and television and radio host
- 1958Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut
- 1958Tom Lanoye, Belgian author
- 1959András Petöcz, Hungarian author
- 1959Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and MTV VJ
- 1959Gerhard Berger, Austrian racing driver and F1 team co-owner (Scuderia Toro Rosso)
- 1959Jeanette Winterson, British novelist
- 1959Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
- 1961Tom Ford, American fashion designer
- 1961Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer
- 1962Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962Thomas Duggan, American photographer
- 1962Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
- 1964Robert Bogue, American actor
- 1965Ange Postecoglou, Greek-Australian footballer
- 1965Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1966Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
- 1967Ogie Alcasid, Filipino singer and actor
- 1969Cesar Millan, Mexican dog trainer
- 1969Chandra Wilson, American actress
- 1969Mark Ealham, England cricketer
- 1969Reece Shearsmith, British actor and comedian
- 1970Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer
- 1970Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer
- 1970Jim Thome, American baseball player
- 1970Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (d. 2008)
- 1970Mark Ilott, England cricketer
- 1970Park Myeong-su, Korean comedian, MC and singer
- 1970Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
- 1970Tony Kanal, English musician (No Doubt)
- 1971Aygül Özkan, German politician
- 1971Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer and coach
- 1971Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
- 1972Denise Lewis, English heptathlete
- 1972Felix da Housecat, American DJ and record producer
- 1972Jaap-Derk Buma, Dutch field hockey player
- 1972Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
- 1972The Great Khali, Indian professional wrestler
- 1973Burak Kut, Turkish pop singer
- 1973Carlene Begnaud, American professional wrestler
- 1973Cory Bowles, Canadian actor
- 1973Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
- 1973Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
- 1973Johan Norberg, Swedish author
- 1974José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1974Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer
- 1974Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
- 1975Björn Gelotte, Swedish guitarplayer, In Flames
- 1975Blake Adams, American golfer
- 1975Jonny Moseley, American skier
- 1975Mark Rudan, Australian footballer
- 1976Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player
- 1976Mark Webber, Australian racing driver
- 1976Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1976Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
- 1977Deco, Portuguese footballer
- 1979Aaron Paul, American actor
- 1979Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker and actor
- 1979Rusty Smith, American shorttracker
- 1979Sarah Neufeld, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
- 1979Tian Liang, Chinese diver
- 1980Kyle Lowder, American actor
- 1980Neha Dhupia, Indian model and actress
- 1981Demetria McKinney, American actress
- 1981Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Spanish footballer
- 1982Damien Monier, French cyclist
- 1983Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
- 1984David Bentley, English footballer
- 1984Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
- 1985Alexandra Nechita, Romanian/American artist
- 1986Mario, American R&B singer
- 1986Nabil El Zhar, Moroccan footballer
- 1987Darren McFadden, American football player
- 1988Alexa Vega, American actress
- 1992Kim Petras, German singer
- 1993Sarah Hecken, German figure skater
Who Died On August 27?
- 542Saint Caesarius of Arles
- 749Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i, Abbasid general
- 827Pope Eugene II
- 1312Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
- 1394Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)
- 1450Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
- 1521Josquin des Prez, Flemish composer
- 1545Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
- 1572Claude Goudimel, French composer
- 1577Titian, Italian artist
- 1590Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
- 1635Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
- 1664Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
- 1748James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
- 1773Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
- 1828Eise Eisinga, Dutch amateur astronomer who built an orrery in his house in Franeker (b. 1744)
- 1857Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1815)
- 1865Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author (b. 1796)
- 1871William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
- 1875William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
- 1909Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
- 1929Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
- 1931Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
- 1931Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
- 1931Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch politician and priest (b. 1860)
- 1934Linda Agostini, Australian murder victim known as the “Pyjama Girl” (b. 1905)
- 1944Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
- 1945Hubert Pál Álgyay, Hungarian engineer (b. 1894)
- 1948Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
- 1958Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- 1961Kálmán Rózsahegyi, Hungarian Jewish actor and teacher (b. 1873)
- 1963Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
- 1963Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
- 1963W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
- 1964Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (b. 1895)
- 1965Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
- 1967Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934)
- 1968Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
- 1969Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)
- 1969Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
- 1971Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)
- 1971Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)
- 1975Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
- 1976Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
- 1979Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900)
- 1980Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
- 1981Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
- 1984Bernard Youens, English actor (b. 1914)
- 1987Scott “La Rock” Sterling, American DJ (Boogie Down Productions) (b. 1962)
- 1988Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
- 1988William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
- 1990Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)
- 1994Frank Jeske, East German footballer (b. 1960)
- 1996Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
- 1997Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (b. 1921)
- 1998Essie Summers, New Zealand writer (b. 1912)
- 1999Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
- 2001Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)
- 2001Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)
- 2002Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, “Father of the Modern Day Men’s Movement,” Founder of the Christian Men’s Network (CMN) (b. 1922)
- 2003Peter-Paul Pigmans, Dutch gabber music producer (b. 1961)
- 2003Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
- 2004Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
- 2005Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1922)
- 2005Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)
- 2006Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
- 2006Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
- 2006María Capovilla, oldest living person from 2004–2006 (b. 1889)
- 2007Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
- 2008Mark Priestley, Australian actor (b. 1970)
- 2009Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and poet (b. 1913)
- 2010Anton Geesink, Dutch 10th-dan judoka (b. 1934)
- 2010Luna Vachon, Professional Wrestler (b. 1962)
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