August 27 Events in History

2010	Mexico's lead investigator of the 72 corpses found near the U.S. Texas border at Tamaulipas, has been missing for two days
2010	After a weeklong battle with 43 people killed, Somalia's al-Shabaab rebel group called for reinforcements to take over the capital Mogadishu
1995	"Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City after 204 performances
1995	23rd du Maurier Golf Classic: Jenny Lidback
1995	95th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995	Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days
1994	"Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers New York City after 320 performances
1993	Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
1992	CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
1992	Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent and Ryan Thompson
1991	Moldavia declares independence from U.S.S.R.
1990	52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1990	Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
1990	Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
1990	WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
1989	100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1989	89th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
1989	Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1989	Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open
1988	Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager  tops Philadelphia, 4-2
1986	Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1985	20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1985	Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years and 8 days old is youngest to win a U.S. Tennis Open match  (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
1984	President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
1984	U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1983	Haiti adopts constitution
1983	U.S. performs nuclear test
1982	Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
1982	Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1981	Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
1981	U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980	Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea
1979	18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland
1978	Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion
1978	Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 home runs and have 500 stolen bases
1978	Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1978	Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1977	"Chicago" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 947 performances
1977	Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee
1977	Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back i nside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
1975	1st night match at U.S. Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1975	Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1974	New York Met Benny Ayala hits a home run in his 1st at bat
1972	Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital  Golf Open
1972	U.S. bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
1969	Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes
1969	Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
1967	Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times)
1967	Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
1966	Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world
1966	Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons  errorless streak
1966	Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois
1966	Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world
1965	Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
1965	WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962	Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1962	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961	Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on  "What's My Line"
1961	Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open
1960	Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
1960	Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open
1958	Calvin Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn
1958	U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1958	U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1957	Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
1957	U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956	Curt Robert of Columbus (International League) hits  4 home runs in 7 inning game
1955	Guinness Book of World Records 1st published
1955	Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1952	Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
1950	1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
1950	General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family  as a communist
1948	102 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1945	U.S. troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1944	200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg
1942	Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
1941	Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi
1940	Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1939	Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1939	Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight w ith rocket/jet propulsion
1939	Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor
1939	Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
1938	Yankees Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
1937	Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
1937	George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
1934	Arlen, Ira Gershwin and Harburgs musical premieres in New York City
1933	Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0
1932	200,000 English textile workers strike
1932	International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam
1928	16 die in a New York City subway's 2nd worst accident
1928	42nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 61)
1928	Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1927	Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1922	Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)
1921	J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted  an NFL franchise
1918	Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
1918	Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1917	Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
1916	Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
1914	2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau
1914	U.S. war reporter Richard H. Davis visits Leuven
1913	Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1912	Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
1911	Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
1910	Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
1910	Washington Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit
1909	Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1908	Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers
1903	23rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108)
1900	Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer  general Botha
1897	Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator  pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1896	England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1895	15th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)
1894	Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1892	New York City Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1883	Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
1881	Hurricane hits Florida and Carolinas; about 700 die
1861	Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft. Clark
1859	1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1832	Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1828	Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talk
1816	Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
1813	Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
1799	English invasion army lands in North-Holland
1798	Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
1789	French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen"
1788	Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
1783	1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1776	British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1667	Earliest recorded hurricane in U.S., Jamestown, Virginia
1665	"Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va)
1634	Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar,  loses Duchy of Francomia
1628	Java sultan Agung van Mataram attacks Batavia
1626	Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV
1619	Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia
1610	Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
1601	Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world
1585	Duke van Parma's troops occupy Antwerp
1569	Pope Pius names Cosimo I de' Medici, grand duke of Toscane
1549	Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army
1232	Kioto Staatsraad accept Joei Legislation