Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 27

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  Battle of Grand Port
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  Edwin Drake
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  Destroyed buildings after the attack in the Anglo-Zanzibar War
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  Nguyễn Khánh
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  General William Howe
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  Moscow's Ostankino Tower burning
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  Destroyed buildings after the attack in the Anglo-Zanzibar War

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1689 – The Tsardom of Russia and Qing China signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk, the first treaty between the two nations.	unreferenced sections
1776 – Maryland 400: Members of the 1st Maryland Regiment repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force during the Battle of Long Island, allowing General Washington and the rest of the American troops to escape — this action is commemorated in Maryland's nickname, the "Old Line State."	Referencing issues
1859 – Edwin Drake successfully drilled for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, resulting in the Pennsylvania oil rush, the first oil boom in the United States.	refimprove section
1893 – The Sea Islands hurricane made landfall near Savannah, Georgia, U.S., causing at least 1,000 deaths.	refimprove
1918 – Border War: United States Army troops engaged the Carrancistas garrison in the Battle of Ambos Nogales; because the latter had the assistance of German military advisers, it was also the only battle of World War I fought on U.S. soil.	refimprove section
1922 – Turkish forces re-captured Afyon, the first victory of their counterattack during the Greco-Turkish War.	Battle: refimprove section; War: unreferenced section
1927 – Five Canadian women filed a petition to ask the Supreme Court of Canada the question "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?", to which the court eventually replied in the negative.	tagged for tone and page numbers needed
1928 – The first three of more than sixty nations signed the Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of national policy.	Yellow "MOS" banner
1939 – Flown by German test pilot Erich Warsitz, experimental jet plane [[Heinkel He 178|Heinkel Template:Nowrap]] became the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power.	refimprove section
1942 – Nazi troops and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police began systematically executing more than 14,000 people, mostly Jews, in and around Sarny in occupied Poland.	Only one paragraph about actual event
1957 – The Constitution of Malaya came into force, three days before the Federation of Malaya achieved formal independence from the United Kingdom.	unreferenced sections
1985 – The Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari was overthrown by Ibrahim Babangida.	unreferenced section; Buhari appears on December 31
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Moldova declared its independence during the aftermath of the failure of the Soviet coup d'état attempt.	too detailed
2000 – Moscow's Ostankino Tower caught fire, killing four people and disrupting television and radio signals around the city.	unreferenced section
2003 – The first round of six-party talks to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program opened.	needs more footnotes
2003 – The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in almost 60,000 years.	An edit in December 2023 removed that fact from the article.
2013 – Religious violence between Hindus and Muslims erupted in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India, leaving 62 people dead.	outdated
Shi Jianqiao |d|1979	Death date not cited
Sarah Neufeld |b|1979|	Birthday not cited

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• 410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ended after three days.
• 1896 – In the shortest recorded war in history, the Sultanate of Zanzibar surrendered to the United Kingdom after less than an hour of conflict.
• 1955 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published.
• 1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh entered into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, both of whom had been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
• 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashed while inadvertently attempting to take off from the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49 of the 50 people on board, and causing the Federal Aviation Administration to modify air traffic control rules.
• 2009 – The Myanmar military junta and ethnic armies began three days of violent clashes in the region of Kokang.

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Notes

• Deimos (moon) appears on August 12 and Phobos (moon) appears on August 18, so Mars should not appear in the same year

August 27: Independence Day in Moldova (1991) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1776 – British forces led by William Howe defeated the Continental Army under George Washington at the Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War.
• 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeated the Royal Navy, preventing them from capturing the harbour of Grand Port on Mauritius.
• 1832 – Black Hawk (pictured), the leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrendered to U.S. authorities to end the Black Hawk War.
• 1979 – The Troubles: the IRA ambushed and killed 18 British soldiers near Warrenpoint, and assassinated Lord Mountbatten on his boat at Mullaghmore.
• 1990 – American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the most influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s, was killed in a helicopter crash.