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Today In History - August 27 |
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On This Date in History |
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26BC Origin of the Egyptian Era 1665 "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is the first play performed in North America 1667 Earliest recorded hurricane in the US: Jamestown, Virginia 1776 The British defeat the Americans in the Battle of Long Island 1783 The first hydrogen balloon flight reaches 900 meters altitude 1789 The French National Assembly issues "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" 1859 The first successful oil well is drilled, near Titusville, PA 1883 Krakatoa erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan" 1918 Dr. Joseph L. Johnson is named the minister to Liberia 1927 Parks College opens 1928 16 people die in the New York City subway's second worst accident 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact: 60 nations agree to outlaw war 1937 George E.T. Eyston sets a new world auto speed record: 345.49 MPH 1939 Erich Warsitz makes the first jet-propelled flight 1945 US troops land in Japan after the Japanese surrender 1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist 1961 Francis the Talking Mule is the mystery guest on "What's My Line" 1966 Francis Chichester sets out on the first solo sailing trip around the world 1975 Veronica and Colin Scargill complete their tandem bicycle ride: 18,020 miles 1978 Robert Shaw dies at age 51 1981 Divers begin to recover a safe that is found aboard the sunken Andrea Doria 1982 Rickey Henderson steals his 119th base of season, and breaks Lou Brock's record 1984 President Reagan announces the "Teacher in Space" project 1989 100 people march through Bensonhurst protesting the racial killings 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash at age 35 |
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Featured event for the day: 1981: Divers begin to recover a safe that is found aboard the sunken Andrea Doria… The Andrea Doria was a massive luxury ocean liner built in Italy in 1951. The ship was 697 feet in length, with a beam of 90 feet and a gross tonnage of 29,100. Powered by twin steam turbines, the Andrea Doria could achieve a top speed of 26 knots, and could cruise at 23 knots. The ship could accommodate over 1,200 passengers during a transoceanic voyage. The Andrea Doria has the dubious distinction of being recalled as being involved in one of the worst maritime disasters in history. With barely five years of service to her name, the Andrea Doria was struck broadside by the SS Stockholm, of the Swedish-American Line. The accident occurred off of the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and while 1,660 people were rescued, 46 people were lost to the sea. The day after the accident, the Andrea Doria herself sunk, and was never retrieved. |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1471 George von Saksen-Meissen 1545 Alessandro Farnese 1562 Hans Leo Hassler 1583 Simon Besler 1630 Maria van Oosterwijck 1650 Johann Samuel Welter 1739 Michel Delalande 1752 Herman Muntinghe 1768 Anne-Franeois Mellinet 1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1824 Hiram Gregory Berry 1826 Frank Stillman Nickerson 1826 Hermann Kipper 1832 James Alexander Walker 1835 Albijn van de Abeele 1837 Heinrich Urban 1839 Emory Upton 1847 Gustave J. Waffelaert 1849 Manuel Acuna 1856 Iwan Franko 1858 Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo 1865 Charles G. Dawes 1865 Emmuska Orczy 1867 Umberto Giordano 1869 Karl Haushofer 1870 Amado Nervo 1871 Theodore Dreiser 1874 Karl Bosch German 1877 Charles Stewart Rolls (Rolls-Royce) 1877 Lloyd Cassel Douglas 1878 Joseph John Richards 1882 Jaroslav Kricka 1882 Samuel Goldwyn (MGM) 1884 Harry Antrim 1884 Vincent Auriol 1886 Eric Coates 1886 Rebecca Clarke 1890 Man Ray 1894 Charles Meredith 1897 Ad van Emmenes 1898 Enny de Leeuwe 1899 Byron Foulger 1899 Cecil Scott Forester 1901 Al Ritz 1901 Roger Pryor 1902 Herbert Menges 1903 Xavier Villaurrutia 1905 Alexander Johnston 1905 Frederick O'Neal 1908 Lyndon B. Johnson 1909 Lester Young 1909 Sidney R. Yates 1909 Sylveer Maes 1910 Mother Teresa 1911 Patience Edney 1912 Peter Gretton 1913 Arthur Benfield 1913 Donald McKenzie MacKinnon 1913 Stewart Crawford 1914 Catherine Marshall 1915 Walter W Heller 1916 Martha Raye 1916 Tony Harris 1918 Lord Winstanley 1919 John Cox 1919 Lord Dormand 1920 James Molyneaux 1922 Frank Kelly Freas 1925 Ken Grieves 1925 Richard Rutt 1925 Tony Crombie 1925 Viscount Rothermere 1927 Hugh Byatt 1927 Liselott Linsenhoff 1928 Jack Thompson 1928 Joan Kroc 1928 Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi 1928 Peter Richard Tahourdin 1929 Ira Levin 1930 John Daly 1930 John Watts 1932 Antonia Fraser 1932 Francois Glorieux 1932 Mikhail Nikolayevich Burdayev 1933 Joke Smit 1935 Frank Yablans 1935 Michael Holroyd 1937 Alice Coltrane 1937 Mark Potter 1937 Phil Shulmon 1937 Tommy Sands 1940 David Hart 1940 Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock 1942 Daryl Dragon (Captain and Tennille) 1943 Tuesday Weld 1943 Bob Kerrey 1944 Barry Conyngham 1944 Tim Bogert 1944 Wim Jurg 1945 G. W. Bailey 1946 Tony Howard 1947 Jacques Arnold 1947 John Morrison 1947 Susie McAllister 1948 Andy Turnell 1949 Andrew McKay 1949 Barbara Bach 1949 Douglas Fred Tewell 1949 Edith Valckaert 1949 Edmund Weiner 1949 Jeff Cook 1949 Simon Kirke 1950 Charles Fleischer 1950 Cynthia Potter 1952 Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) 1953 Alex Lifeson 1953 Willy "Mink" Deville 1954 Derek Warwick 1954 John Lloyd 1955 Diana Scarwid 1955 Roderick Hopkins Davis 1956 Glen Matlock 1957 Bernhard Langer 1960 Damon Keeve 1961 "Downtown" Julie Brown 1962 Scott Davis 1963 John Philipson 1963 Patty Duffek 1965 Michael Perry 1965 Patricia Hy-Boulais 1965 Wayne James 1966 Deena Wigger 1967 Brian McRae 1967 Rob Burnett 1968 Christine Schaefer 1968 Emanual Davis 1968 Martin Lowenfish 1968 Michael Long 1969 Kipp Vickers 1969 Mark Ealham 1969 Steven Van Randwijck 1970 Andy Bichel 1970 Dene Hills 1970 Greg Woodcroft 1970 Jim Thome 1970 Mark Ilott 1970 Reggie Slater 1971 Ernest Faber 1971 Jim Flanigan 1972 Chris Imes 1972 Donta Jones 1974 Sean Woodson 1976 Cartos Moya 1976 Craig Mills 1977 Michelle Kathlene Cardamon 1977 Sarah Chalke 1977 Trisha Williams 1979 Ara Francis 1980 Stephanie Michelle Steele |
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