TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: AUGUST 27
1610 Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
1660 The books of John Milton were burned in London due to his attacks on King Charles II.
1667 Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
1776 The Americans are defeated by the British at the Battle of Long Island, New York.
1789 French National Assembly issues the “Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen”
1859 Edwin Drake drilled the first successful U.S. oil well near Titusville, Pa.
1881 New York state’s Pure Food Law goes into effect to prevent “the adulteration of food or drugs.”
1894 The United States congress passes an income tax law as part of a general tariff act, but it is found unconstitutional.
1910 Thomas Edison demonstrates the first “talking” pictures–using a phonograph–in his New Jersey laboratory.
1912 Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan of the Apes first appears in a magazine.
1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Cincinnati Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of US Army
1918 Spanish flu arrives in Boston, beginning of the second wave and deadliest wave in the US
1921 The owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers.
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, 60 nations agree to condemn ‘recourse to war for the solution of international controversies’.
1942 Soviet woman sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko arrives in Washington D.C., the 1st Soviet citizen welcomed at the White House, by Eleanor Roosevelt
1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1979 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of them children by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland
1984 US President Ronald Reagan announces ‘Teacher in Space’ project
1985 Military coup in Nigeria. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida took over the government after overthrowing Muhammadu Buhari in a bloodless coup.
1996 California Governor Pete Wilson signed an order that would halt state benefits to illegal immigrants.
1999 The final crew of the Russian space station Mir departed the station to return to Earth. Russia was forced to abandon Mir for financial reasons.
2001 Work began on the future site of a World War II memorial on the U.S. capital’s historic national Mall. The site is between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
2003 Mars approaches closest to the Earth since 57,617 BC
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
