What Happened on Aug 27

Battle of Lutter am Berenberge

The Battle of Lutter (Lutter am Barenberge) took place during the Thirty Years' War, on 27 August 1626, between the forces of the Protestant... Read more

Battle of Long Island

At 9:00 am, Washington arrived from Manhattan. Around this time five British ships attempted to sail up the East River to cut off any possible... Read more

Declaration of Pillnitz

The Declaration of Pillnitz on August 27, 1791, was a statement issued at the Castle of Pillnitz in Saxony (south of Dresden) by the Habsburg Holy... Read more

Freeport Doctrine Is Focal Point in Douglas' Argument at the Second Lincoln-Douglas Debate

At Freeport Lincoln challenged Douglas to reconcile popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott decision. Douglas replied that settlers could... Read more

U.S. Army Physician James Carroll Allowed An Infected Mosquito To Feed On Him

On August 27, 1900, U.S. Army physician James Carroll allowed an infected mosquito to feed on him in an attempt to isolate the means of... Read more

Lyndon B Johnson is Born

Johnson was born near Stonewall, Texas, on August 27, 1908, in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River. His parents, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. and... Read more

Imperial Japanese Navy First Sends the Suwo to Blockade German-Controlled Kiaochow

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) first sent ships under Vice-Admiral Sadakichi Kato, flying his flag in the pre-dreadnought Suwo, to blockade the... Read more

Telegrams and Letters Circulated on Monday August 27 1914

Austria-Hungary. Count Szápáry, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at St. Petersburg, telegraphed Count Berchtold, Minister for Foreign Affairs at Vienna,... Read more

The Masquerader is Released

The Masquerader is a 1914 film written and directed by Charles Chaplin and starring Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle. Its running time is 16 minutes. It... Read more

Romania Declares War on Austria-Hungary

The Romanian people rather inclined toward the side of the Allies from the beginning of the War, but they were prevented from following their... Read more

Romanian Campaign - The Burning of Constanza and the Evacuation of Bucharest

Romanian Army, 600,000 General Averescu General Asian Russian Army, 50,000 General Sakharov General Zaionchovsky Austro-German Army,... Read more

Alice Coltrane Is Born

Alice Coltrane (née McLeod) (August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007) was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, composer, and the wife of John... Read more

"Dead End" Is Released

Dead End is a 1937 crime drama film. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel... Read more

Test Flight of the Heinkel He 178, the First Jet Aircraft

The Heinkel-produced He 178 has the distinct honor of becoming the world's first aircraft to fly solely with a turbojet engine. The aircraft was... Read more

The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et al., also known as the IG Farben Trial

The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et al., also known as the IG Farben Trial, was the sixth of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S.... Read more

Alex Lifeson is born

Alex Lifeson, OC (born Aleksandar Živojinović; August 27, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known for his work as the guitarist of the Canadian... Read more

"Roman Holiday" Is Released

Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy. The film introduced American audiences to Belgian-born actress Audrey Hepburn, who won the Academy Award... Read more

Launch of Mariner 2 Space Probe

Mariner 2 was the first successful mission to another planet by any country. Launched just 36 days after the failure of its twin, Mariner 1, it... Read more

Mary Poppins is Released

Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series... Read more

Hurricane Betsy

On August 27th, reconnaissance aircraft found a tropical depression east of the Leeward Islands. By late in the day the system strengthened into a... Read more

Joe Biden marries Neilia Hunter

On August 27, 1966, Biden, then a law student, married Neilia Hunter, who was from an affluent background in Skaneateles, New York and had attended... Read more

Stevie Wonder Releases I Was Made to Love Her

I Was Made to Love Her is an album by Stevie Wonder, released in 1967 under Motown Records. Read more

Louis Mountbatten is Killed by an IRA Bomb While Vacationing

The IRA claim responsibility for the execution of Lord Louis Mountbatten. This operation is one of the discriminate ways we can bring to the... Read more

The Val Johnson Incident

Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson of Marshall County was on duty that night, driving not far from the North Dakota border, when at around 1:40 a.m. he saw... Read more

Stephen King publishes Different Seasons

Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four Stephen King novellas with a more serious bent than the horror fiction for which King is... Read more