Some of the significant events which took place on August 27 taken from the leaf of History:

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 Korean Baekje forces and their Yamato Japanese allies on the Geum River in Korea; – no Japanese invasion of Korea for 900 years.

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 in Norfolk, England.

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 – Frederik van Palts chosen as 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 the first play performed in North America in Acomac, 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 an altitude of 900m.

1788 – Jacques Neeker named as French minister of Finance.

1789 – French National Assembly issues “Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen”.

1798 – Battle of Castlebar, Ireland: French army and Irish rebels rout a larger the British force.

1799 – British invasion army lands in North Holland.

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, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake.

1861 – Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft Clark.

1869 – 1st international boat race (River Thames, Oxford beats Harvard).

1881 – Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die.

1883 – Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people.

1884 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears makes it 4 straight US singles titles; beats Howard Taylor 6-0, 1-6, 6-0, 6-2.

1890 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Oliver Campbell beats 2-time defending champion Henry Slocum 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.

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.

1894 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Robert Wrenn beats Irishman Manliff Goodbody 6-8, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

1896 – Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM). Shortest recorded war in history.

1897 – Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher).

1900 – Gabriel Fauré’s opera/cantata “Prométhée” premieres in Beziers.

1900 – Battle of Bergendal: General Buller defeats the Boer under general Louis Botha.

1901 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Beals Wright 6-2, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4 for the first of 7 US singles titles.

1902 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion William Larned beats Englishman R.F. Doherty 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6.

1908 – Calgary City Rugby Football Club re-organizes as the Tigers.

1909 – Jack Chesbro’s final Highlander game.

1909 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats William Clothier 6-1, 6-2, 5-7, 1-6, 6-1 for his 3rd straight & 5th overall US singles title.

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.

1913 – Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent all-purpose zipper.

1928 – Frank Lloyd Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright the celebrated architect has remarried his longtime girlfriend Olga Millinoff a Montenegren Dancer in California.

1934 – Chicago Teachers Given Back Pay: Teachers in Chicago have at last been given their back pay after suffering with no wages for long periods of time. 18,000 teachers were affected because Chicago did not have money to pay them and most will receive over $1,000. Many lined up at the bank from long before the bank opened to cash their checks and it is expected that local traders would see a spending spree and paying of long outstanding bills which would help to boost the local economy.

1955 – Guinness Book of World Records: The “Guinness Book of World Records” compiled by student twins Norris and Ross McWhirter is published for the first time and becomes an instant success. The book was originally owned by the Guinness Brewery (Hence The Name) it is currently owned by (the Jim Pattison Group) which the same company who owns Ripley Entertainment, Inc. The Guinness Book of Records holds it’s own record as the world’s most sold copyrighted book.

1962 – Mariner 2 Space Probe: The American space agency NASA launch the Mariner 2 space probe from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Mariner 2 flew past Venus 3½ months later collecting radiometric temperature measurement and Interplanetary Magnetic Field measurements.

1962 – NASA Launches Mariner 2: Part of NASA’s Mariner program, the unmanned space probe was the first man-made object to flyby another planet – it encountered Venus on December 14, 1962. The space probe made its last contact with scientists on Earth on January 3, 1963.

1967 – UK Harold Wilson: Harold Wilson the British Prime minister has announced a major reshuffle of his cabinet and has dropped a number of the old guard Labor members to bring in new blood with fresh ideas to combat the problems of mounting unemployment and the public’s disillusionment of the current Labor government.

1979 – Lord Louis Mountbatten Murdered: The second cousin of the Queen Lord Louis Mountbatten is killed when IRA terrorists detonate a 50-pound bomb on his fishing boat in Donegal Bay off Ireland’s northwest coast. Three others were also killed in the attack, he was one of the most popular members of the royal family because he was fighting alongside his fellow Brits as a Commander in the British Royal navy, including commanding the HMS Kelly which was sunk early in the war, and he still continued sea service taking his chances alongside his men.

1979 – South Down Bombing: Eighteen British soldiers from the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment are killed by two booby trap bomb attacks at Warren point, South Down, in Northern Ireland close to the border with the Irish Republic.

1985 – Military coup in Nigeria: General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida took over the government after overthrowing Muhammadu Buhari in a bloodless coup.

1989 – Sky TV Launched: Rupert Murdoch who owns the Fox Television network in the United States has launched Sky TV which is received by paying subscribers via satellite dishes in England following on from his holdings in the UK newspaper market including The Times and The Sun.

1989 – The first U.S. commercial satellite rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida _ a Delta booster carrying a British communications satellite, the Marcopolo 1.

1990 – Trial Convicts Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders: Former Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders and his three conspirators Gerald Ronson, Sir Jack Lyons and Anthony Parnes are convicted for involvement in a conspiracy to drive up the price of shares of Guinness.

1991 – Moldova gains its Independence: The Eastern European country was part of the Soviet Union since August 2, 1940, from parts of Romania and parts of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1991, after the dissolution of the USSR, the country gained its independence.

1992 – Iraq No Fly Zone: President George Bush has informed Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein that a no fly zone is now in place over southern Iraq, the No Fly Zone was authorized under United Nations Resolution in 1991 that demanded an end to the repression of civilians including Shiite Muslims, the no fly zone will stay in effect until international peacekeepers have confirmed or denied reports and will stay in place until it is no longer needed.

1998 – Russia Ruble: Trading on the markets in the Russian Ruble have been suspended for the third day as the Ruble has continued its downward spiral currently trading on the unofficial market is seeing the Ruble trading at close to 15 rubles to the dollar (just 3 weeks ago the figure was 6 rubles to the dollar). In addition to the ruble’s problems the Moscow stock market has lost a further 60% in just 1 week with no signs of a let up.

2003 – Mars approaches closest to the Earth since 57,617 BCThe next time the two planets will be this close will be in 2287.

2003 – World’s Biggest Battery is Plugged in The battery, which takes up about 2,000 square metres of space and weighs about 1,300 tonnes is set up to provide emergency electricity to the residents of Fairbanks in Alaska, for about 7 minutes.

2006 – Kentucky Plane Crash: A (Delta Air Lines) Comair CRJ-100 passenger jet carrying 50 people has crashed shortly after taking off from Lexington airport in Kentucky, killing all but one on board.

2006 – World’s Oldest Woman Dies: The world’s oldest woman died on this day of complications caused by pneumonia. Maria Esther de Capovilla was 116 years old and lived in Guayaquil, Colombia. She was generally in good health and her death was unexpected. Maria Esther de Capovilla had five children, eleven grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.

2007 – Alberto Gonzales: After much investigation and fighting, United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation. The resignation came after accusations of abuse of power in the Bush administration over the firing of federal prosecutors that were believed to be for political reasons.

2009 – New Dinosaur Species Discovered: A new dinosaur species was discovered in Australia by paleontologists on a sheep farm in Queensland. The fossils of the dinosaur are estimated to be around 97 million years old and belong to an herbivore sauropod.

2012 – Italian Miners in Underground Protest: Around one-hundred miners barricaded themselves underground with explosives in a pit in the island of Sardinia in protest of the closing of the country’s only mine. If the mine was shut down they would all lose their jobs and they planned on staying underground until they get a meeting with the government.

2013 – Walmart to Give Same-Sex Benefits: US retailer Wal-Mart, the largest private sector employer in the United States, stated they would begin to offer health insurance to same-sex partners of their workers. The change in policy came after the US Supreme Court ruled that the government must recognize same-sex marriages in the states that have legalized it.

2006 – A Comair CRJ-100 crashed after trying to take off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Ky., killing 49 people and leaving the co-pilot the sole survivor.

2008 – Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver. A federal judge in Boise, Idaho, sentenced longtime sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan III to death for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of 9-year-old Dylan Groene (GROH’-nee).

2013 – Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who’d fatally shot 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, rested his case without presenting any evidence during his trial’s penalty phase. (Hasan ended up being sentenced to death.)

2017 – Hurricane Harvey sent devastating floods into Houston, with rising water chasing thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground; streets became rivers navigable only by boat. A rally in Berkeley, California, was disrupted when scores of anarchists wearing black clothing and masks stormed the demonstration and attacked several supporters of President Donald Trump.