August 27th

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The August 27 is the 239th day of the Gregorian calendar (240th in leap years ), thus remain 126 days by year end.

Historic anniversaries
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events

Politics and world events

479 BC BC: Battle of Platää
1105: The third battle of Ramla
1728: Diomedes Islands
Bombing of Algiers (1816)
1832: Chief Black Hawk
1896: Destroyed building after the British-Zanzibarian War
  • 1896: In the British-Zanzibar War , which is considered to be the shortest war in world history, the British secure their rule over Zanzibar .
1910: Clara Zetkin (left) with Rosa Luxemburg

business

1924: LZ 126 landing

science and technology

1783: Destruction of
the balloon near Gonesse
1930: Diablo Dam
  • 1930: In the US state of Washington , the Diablo Dam, the world's highest dam wall at that time, is inaugurated.
1939: The Heinkel He 178

Culture

society

1824: Woyzeck's execution on the market square in Leipzig

Disasters

  • 1883: The Krakatau volcano in Indonesia emits the most powerful of several eruptions since the previous day. At least 36,000 people died as a result of the eruption, tidal waves ( tsunamis ) and pyroclastic currents .
  • 1955: All of Central Europe is hit by severe storms . In Germany, at least 12 people are killed in very intense thunderstorms. In northern Germany 40 farms are destroyed by lightning, and many other buildings are badly damaged. In Schleswig-Holstein alone, more than 100 head of cattle are killed by lightning in the pastures. The fire damage in northern Germany is over five million DM.
  • 1993: When the Gouhou Dam broke in Gonghe County in the Chinese province of Qinghai , the tidal wave kills at least 240 people and makes around 3,000 Chinese homeless.
2005: Hurricane Katrina
  • 2005: Due to the approaching Hurricane Katrina , a state of emergency is declared in the US states of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

1820: The Zugspitze

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 17th century

  • George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony (* 1471)

  • Johann Friedrich, Duke of Pomerania (* 1542)

  • Alessandro Farnese (* 1545)

  • Bernardino Poccetti (* 1545)

17th century

  • Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé (* 1619)

  • Maria van Oosterwijck (* 1630)

  • Anne Marie d'Orléans (* 1669)

  • Joaquín de Montserrat (* 1700)

18th century

  • Johann Georg Hamann (* 1730)

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (* 1770)

  • Barthold Georg Niebuhr (* 1776)

  • Johannes Voigt (* 1786)

19th century

1801-1850

  • Margarethe Meyer-Schurz (* 1833)

  • Reinhold Persius (* 1835)

  • Ödön Lechner (* 1845)

  • Friedrich Fromhold Martens (* 1845)

1851-1900

  • Charles G. Dawes (* 1865)

  • Carl Bosch (* 1874)

  • Maud Allan (* 1877)

  • Ernst Wetter (* 1877)

  • Pyotr Wrangel (* 1878)

  • Vincent Auriol (* 1884)

  • Rebecca Clarke (* 1886)

  • Man Ray (* 1890)

20th century

1901-1925

  • Fritz Berg (* 1901)

  • Lyndon B. Johnson (* 1908)

  • Heidi Kabel (* 1914)

  • Martha Raye (* 1916)

1926-1950

  • Mangosuthu Buthelezi (* 1928)

  • Osamu Shimomura (* 1928)

  • Sri Chinmoy (* 1931)

  • Cesária Évora (* 1941)

  • Bill Ivy (born 1942)

  • Marianne Sägebrecht (* 1945)

  • Flossie Wong-Staal (* 1946)

  • Barbara Bach (* 1947)

1951-1975

  • Alex Lifeson (* 1953)

  • Sandra de Sá (* 1955)

  • Bernhard Langer (* 1957)

  • Sergei Krikaljow (* 1958)

  • Jürgen Becker (* 1959)

  • Gerhard Berger (* 1959)

  • Daniela Romo (* 1959)

  • Sarah Wiener (* 1962)

  • Jim Thome (* 1970)

  • Jimmy Pop (* 1972)

  • Dalip Singh (* 1972)

  • Dietmar Hamann (* 1973)

1976-2000

  • Mark Webber (* 1976)

  • Kayla Ewell (born 1985)

  • Sebastian Kurz (* 1986)

  • Stefanie Giesinger (* 1996)

Died

Before the 16th century

  • Erik III. († 1146)

  • Arthur II († 1312)

16th to 18th century

  • Josquin Desprez († 1521)

  • Titian († 1576)

  • Sixtus V († 1590)

  • Francesco Maria del Monte († 1627)

  • Lope de Vega († 1635)

  • Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow († 1681)

  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek († 1723)

  • Maria Barbara de Bragança († 1758)

19th century

  • Johann Christian Woyzeck († 1824)

  • Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Koháry († 1851)

  • Richard La Nicca († 1883)

  • Peter Mitterhofer († 1893)

20th century

1901-1950

  • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk († 1914)

  • Louis Botha († 1919)

  • Georges Sorel († 1922)

  • Herman Potocnik († 1929)

  • Friedrich Otto Schott († 1935)

  • George Henry Dern († 1936)

  • Lionel Walter Rothschild († 1937)

  • Mafalda of Savoy († 1944) as a child

1951-2000

  • Ernest Lawrence († 1958)

  • WEB Du Bois († 1963)

  • Adolf Grimme († 1963)

  • Le Corbusier († 1965)

  • Brian Epstein († 1967)

  • Erika Mann († 1969)

  • Haile Selassie († 1975)

  • Louis Mountbatten († 1977)

  • Anandamayi Ma († 1982)

  • Pearl Bailey († 1990)

  • Stevie Ray Vaughan († 1990)

  • Hélder Câmara († 1999)

21st century

  • Abie Nathan († 2008)

  • Neville Alexander († 2012)

  • Dawda Jawara († 2019)

Holidays and memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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