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Today in History ~ August 27
Events1569 - Pope Pius names Cosimo I de' Medici, grand duke of Toscane
1610 - Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
1665 - "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in N America (Acomac, Va)
1776 - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1783 - 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1788 - Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
1789 - French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man & Citizen"
1813 - Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
1816 - Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
1832 - Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1859 - 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake. Drilling for oil, similar to the Gold Rush, caused boom towns to spring up all over the area and within three years over 128,000,000 gallons had been pumped from Drake's well.
1861 - Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft Clark
1862 - Stonewall Jackson captures and plunders Union supply depot at Manassas Junction, Virginia
1881 - Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die
1883 -The island volcano Krakatoa blew up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia's Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra, continues to explode with a force of 1,300 megatons [H]
1892 - Fire seriously damaged New York's original Metropolitan Opera House.
1894 - Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which contained a provision for a graduated income tax that was later struck down by the Supreme Court.
1900 - U.S. Army physician James Carroll, Havana, Cuba, allowed an infected mosquito to feed on him in an attempt to isolate the means of transmission of yellow fever. Days later, Carroll developed a severe case of yellow fever, helping his colleague, Army Walter Reed, prove that mosquitoes can transmit the sometimes deadly disease.
1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
1914 - 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau
1914 - US war reporter Richard H Davis visits Leuven
1921 - J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
1928 - 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
1932 - 200,000 English textile workers strike
1934 - Arlen, Ira Gershwin & Harburg musical premieres in NYC
1938 - George Eyston set an automobile land-speed record
1939 - Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1939 - Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor
1941 - Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlavi
1942 - Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1944 - 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Hamburg
1945 - American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.
1955 - "Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published
1958 - Clark Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn
1958 - USSR launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1961 - Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
1962 - Mariner 2 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an exploratory mission to Venus. Dec. 14, 1962, Mariner 2 passed within just over 20,000 miles of Venus, reporting an 800F surface temperature, high surface pressures, a predominantly carbon dioxide atmosphere, continuous cloud cover, and no detectable magnetic field.
1963 - Fifteen-year-old Edmund Kemper kills his grandparents with a riflec, then called his mother and told her, "I just wondered how it would feel to shoot Grandma." [H]
1965 - Bob Dylan booed off stage in NY's Forest Hills
1966 - Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
1966 - Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world
1972 - US bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
1976 - Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
1977 - "Chicago" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 947 performances
1979 - 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland
1979 - Lord Louis Mountbatten's fishing boat was exploded by an Irish Republican Army bomb, killing him and his grandson. [H]
1981 - Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
1985 - Defense Secretary Weinberger canceled the Army's $1.8 billion "Sergeant York" weapon system, declaring it ineffective.
1984 - President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
1989 - 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1991 - The Soviet republic of Moldavia declared its independence. And the European Community recognized Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as independent nations.
1991 - Warning of impending "catastrophe," Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev threatened to resign unless the Soviet Union's splintering republics could at least preserve a military and economic alliance.
1991 - In a split vote, the American Bar Association gave Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas a "qualified" rating.
1992 - President George H.W. Bush ordered federal troops to Florida for emergency relief after Hurricane Andrew struck.
1992 - Serbian leaders at the Yugoslav peace conference pledged to close the prisoner-of-war camps, end "ethnic cleansing," and work toward peace.
1992 - Canada's Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a law that would have prevented a man from claiming the Nazi Holocaust was a hoax.
1995 - Worst fire in NY in 80 years ends after 4 days
1996 - Israel approved new development in the West Bank.
1996 - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the Democratic convention in Chicago, forcefully making her husband's case for re-election while rebutting her Republican critics.
1997 - Israel lifted a month-long blockade of Bethlehem that was imposed after a suicide bombing July 30 killed 16 people.
1999 - Two Russian cosmonauts and a French astronaut left Mir to return to Earth, leaving the orbiting Russian space station unmanned for the first time in 13 years.
2000 - Continuing a two-day visit to Nigeria, President Clinton said Africans had to "break the silence" about AIDS or risk losing hard-fought democratic and economic gains.
2000 - Fire broke out in Moscow's landmark Ostankino television tower, killing three people. 2000 - A botched Israeli military raid on an Islamic militant hide-out in the West Bank ended with three Israeli soldiers being accidentally killed by their comrades
2001 - Peru's Congress voted to lift the constitutional immunity of former President Alberto Fujimori, so that prosecutors could charge him with crimes against humanity.
Birthdays Today
551 B.C. - Confucius (K'ung Fu-tzu) (philosopher) ("Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." ) [Q]
1739 - Michel Delalande, composer
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin (15th U.S. Vice President [1861-1865])
1865 - Charles Dawes (30th U.S. Vice President [1925-1929]; songwriter: Melody in A Major aka It's All in the Game)
1865 - Emmuska Orczy, British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel)
1867 - Umberto Giordano, composer (Andrea Chenier)
1869 - Karl Haushofer, soldier/geographer
1871 - Theodore Dreiser (novelist: An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie)
1874 - Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931)
1877 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker
1886 - Eric Coates, Hucknall Nottinghamshire England, viola player/composer
1890 - Man Ray, US statues artist/photographer/movie (dada)
1899 - Cecil Scott Forester, Engld, historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower)
1908 - Frank Leahy, O'Neill Nebraska, football coach (Notre Dame)
1908 - Lyndon Baines Johnson (36th U.S. President: succeeded President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963)
1910 - Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) (Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1979]: missionary, humanitarian)
1915 - Walter W Heller, economist (Old Myths & New Realities)
1916 - Martha Ray (Margaret Reed) (comedienne, actress: McMillan and Wife, All Star Revue, The Martha Raye Show, The Concorde, Airport '79, Rhythm on the Range; winner of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award [1969], Presidential Medal of Freedom [1993])
1918 - Peanuts (Harry Lee) Lowrey (baseball)
1927 - Jimmy 'Cajun' Newman (singer: Cry, Cry Darling, A Fallen Star, You're Making a Fool Out of Me, A Lovely Work of Art, Alligator Man, Bayou Talk, DJ for a Day, Artificial Rose)
1928 - Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (Chief Minister of KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa)
1929 - Ira Levin, author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day)
1931 - Joe Cunningham, Jr. (baseball)
1932 - Antonia Fraser, biographer (Mary Queen of Scots)
1932 - Jim King (baseball)
1935 - Ernie Broglio (baseball)
1937 - Tommy Sands (singer: Teen-Age Crush, Goin' Steady; actor: Sing Boy Sing, None but the Brave, Babes in Toyland, The Longest Day)
1942 - Daryl Dragon (Grammy Award-winning musician, songwriter: duo: The Captain & Tennille: Love Will Keep Us Together [1975], Muskrat Love, Shop Around, Do That To Me One More Time, The Way I Want To Touch You)
1943 - Tuesday Weld (Susan Kerr) (actress: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Author, Author, Falling Down, Rock, Rock, Rock)
1947 - Barbara Bach (Goldbach) (actress: Caveman, Princess Daisy, Give My Regards to Broadstreet, The Spy Who Loved Me)
1947 - Susie McAllister, LPGA golfer
1949 - Jeff Cook (singer, musician: guitar: group: Alabama: Love in the First Degree, Feels So Right)
1950 - Charles Fleischer, Wash DC, comedian (Roger Rabbit)
1950 - Cynthia Potter (champion diver: only woman to have won 28 championship titles)
1951 - Buddy Bell (baseball)
1952 - Mike Edwards (baseball)
1952 - Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman), NY, actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
1955 - Pat Kelly (baseball)
1976 - Sarah Chalke (actress: Roseanne)
Famous deaths
1521 - Josquin Des Prez, composer, dies
1522 - Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 75
1576 - Titian, [Tiziano Vecelli], Italian painter, dies of plague
1635 - Lope Felix de Vega, playwright/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
1963 - W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana
1964 - Gracie Allen, actress (Burns & Allen), dies at 62
1965 - Le Corbusier, [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss/French architect, dies at 77
1967 - Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32
1968 - William E B Dubois, US founder NAACP (Souls of black people),
1971 - Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, US photographer, dies at 67
1975 - Depossed Emperor Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old monarchy, strangled in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown.
1978 - Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies of heart attack at 51
1979 - British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion. The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility. [H]
1979 - Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's grandson, murdered at 14 [H]
1996 - Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73)
1996 - Greg Morris ("Mission: Impossible") was found dead at his Las Vegas home; at 61.
1997 - Brandon Tartikoff, TV exec (NBC), dies at 48
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