Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
97231August 27Event1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
97232August 27Event1776 – Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
97233August 27Event1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
97234August 27Event1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht.
97235August 27Event1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
97236August 27Event1813 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
97237August 27Event1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by the United Kingdom between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
97238August 27Event1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
97239August 27Event1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
97240August 27Event1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
97241August 27Event1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
97242August 27Event1914 – Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
97243August 27Event1916 – The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
97244August 27Event1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
97245August 27Event1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
97246August 27Event1922 – Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.
97247August 27Event1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
97248August 27Event1928 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
97249August 27Event1933 – The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.
97250August 27Event1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
97251August 27Event1943 – World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
97252August 27Event1957 – Malaysia's constitution comes into force.
97253August 27Event1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
97254August 27Event1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
97255August 27Event1971 – An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
97256August 27Event1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
97257August 27Event1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoi
97258August 27Event1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Canada's capital city. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armeni
97259August 27Event1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
97260August 27Event1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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