Major Events
- 479 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Mycale won by Greek forces over Persian naval troops on Ionian coast, double victory with that at Plataea ends Persian invasion
- 479 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Plataea, Persian forces led by Mardonius routed by Greek army under Pausanias; together with Greek success at Battle of Mycale halts Persian invasion of Greece
- 663 Battle of Baekgang: Tang Chinese and Silla Korean forces defeat Baekje Korean forces and their Yamato Japanese allies on the Geum River in Korea, the last Japanese invasion of Korea for 900 years
- 1789 French National Assembly issues the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”
- 1883 Krakatoa volcano, located west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 200 megatons of TNT, killing approximately 36,000 people
- 1928 Kellogg–Briand Pact, 60 nations agree to condemn the “recourse to war for the solution of international controversies”
- 1979 Lord Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of whom are children, by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland
- 2008 US Senator Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States, by the Democratic Party
Aug 27 in Film & TV
- 1950 First transmission of a TV program from continental Europe airs on BBC
- 1964 Walt Disney‘s musical film “Mary Poppins,” directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, with songs by Richard and Robert Sherman, premieres at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California, and wins five Academy Awards
Aug 27 in Music
- 1965 The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley at his Los Angeles, California, home
Aug 27 in Sport
- 2004 German kayaker Birgit Fischer wins gold in K-4 500 m and silver in K-2 500 m in Athens; she is the first woman in any sport to win gold medals at six different Olympics, with golds 24 years apart, and the first person to win two or more medals in five different Games
Did You Know?
Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 am – 9:40 am), the shortest recorded war in history
Famous Weddings
- 1930 Journalist H. L. Mencken (49) weds author Sara Haardt (32) at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
- 1956 Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt (32) weds “12 Angry Men” director Sidney Lumet (32)
- 1966 American law student, and future politician, Joe Biden of Delaware (21) weds fellow Syracuse University student, and future teacher, Neilia Hunter (22) of Skaneateles, New York, at a Catholic church in Skaneateles, until her death in 1972
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