August 27th

The August 27th is the 239e Jour of the Année (240e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

479 av. J-C.: Battle of Foundations, last large battles terrestrial of the medic Guerres.

1214 : Triumphal reception of Paris for Philippe-Auguste after the Battle of Bouvines.
1301 : Venceslas III is crowned king of Hungary.
1435 : Pierre Piédru is named bishop of Saint-Malo. It will remain it until its death in 1449.
1664 : Colbert founds the French Compagnie of the Eastern Indies, whose object is “to sail and negotiate since the Cape of Good Hope almost in all Eastern Indies and seas”. It is definitively made up by letters patent of this day, with monopoly of the remote trade for fifty years. It creates a stopover in the island Bourbon (current island of the Réunion).
1776 : Battle Length Island between the troops of George Washington and the general William Howe
1813: Napoleon overcomes the Russian Autrichiens, and the Prussia S with the Bataille of Dresden; Moreau is seriously wounded during the battle (he will die the September 2nd).
1828 : The Russians overcome the Turks with Akhaltzikke.
1859 : The American colonel Edwin Drake raises the first derrick with Titusville, in Pennsylvania.
1860 : Savoy becomes French.
1883 : The volcano Krakatoa enters in eruption and starts a fatal Tsunami in Indonesia (36 000 victims). The explosion is visible up to 5.000 kilometers.

1928 : Pact Briand-Kellogg between France and the United States
1939: First flight of a Jet conceived by Ernst Heinrich Heinkel.
1943 : Altiero Spinelli founds with Milan the European federalistic Mouvement (MFE).
1962 : Mariner 2 is launched successfully.
1976 : The manifestations of the inhabitants of Soweto, a Township of Johannesburg, caused by misery and unemployment, degenerate into bloody riots.
1979 : The British admiral Mountbatten is assassinated by WILL GO by the explosion of the fishing vessel Shadow V , with broad of the Ireland.
1990 : Died of the guitarist/singer of blues Stevie Ray Vaughan.
1991 : The Moldavie declares its independence with the the USSR.

2003 : Mars carries out its nearer approach to the Earth in 60.000 years, while passing to 55.758.006 kilometers of the Earth.

1865: James Henry Breasted, Egyptologist († 1935)
1871: Theodore Dreiser, author († 1945)
1882: Samuel Goldwyn, film producer († 1974)
1884: Vincent Auriol, statesman French († January 1st 1966)
1890: Man Ray, photographer, artist († 1976)
1899: C.S. Forester, author († 1966).
1902 : Willam Christensen, dancer, choreographer and American ballet master († 2001)
1904: Norah Lofts, author
1909: To ballast Young, musician of Jazz († 1959)
1916: Martha Raye, actress († 1994)
1925: Darry Cowl (Andre Darricau), actor French († February 14th 2006)
1929: Will go Levin, author
1932: Antonia Fraser, author
1935: Frank Yablans, film producer
1936: Philippe Labro, writer, journalist and realizer French
1941: Iouri Malychev, Soviet cosmonaut († 1999)
1943: Marcel Neven, Belgian politician of French language
1958: Tom Lanoye, Flemish writer
1959: Gerhard Shepherd, Austrian pilot of Formula 1

543: Césaire of Arles.
1312 : Arthur II of Brittany, duke of Brittany of 1305 with 1312.
1521 : Josquin Desprez, type-setter free-Flemish (° 1450).
1590 : Sixth Quint, 227e pope (° 1521).
1723 : Antoine van Dutch Leeuwenhoek, trading and microbiologist (° October 24th 1632)
1965: Le Corbusier, French architect of Swiss origin (° 1887).
1975 : Hailé Sélassié Ier, last emperor of Ethiopia
1979: Lord Louis Mountbatten, last viceroy of the Indies, assassinated by WILL GO (° 1900).
1979 : Paul Coste-Floret, Politician French (° 1911).
1990 : Stevie Ray Vaughan, guitarist of American blues
2003: Pierre Poujade, Politician French (° 1920).
2007 : Driss Basri, Moroccan Politician (° 1938).

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