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This Day in History, Wikipedia

• Christian feast day: Baculus of Sorrento, Caesarius of Arles, Decuman, Gebhard of Constance, Euthalia, John of Pavia, Lycerius (or: Glycerius, Lizier), Máel Ruba (or Rufus) (Scotland), Margaret the Barefooted, Monica of Hippo, mother of Augustine of Hippo, Narnus, Our Lady of La Vang, Phanourios of Rhodes, Rufus and Carpophorus, Syagrius of Autun, Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle (Episcopal Church), August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)1/31
• 2011 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.^[13]2/31
• Independence Day (Republic of Moldova), celebrates the independence of Moldova from the USSR in 1991.3/31
• 2009 – Internal conflict in Myanmar: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.4/31
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (Texas, United States)5/31
• 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.6/31
• 2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.7/31
• 1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. 8/31
• 1985 – Major General Muhammadu Buhari, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Major General Ibrahim Babangida. 9/31
• 1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 11⁄2 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian genocide. 10/31
• 1980 – South Korean presidential election: After successfully staging the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth, General Chun Doo-hwan, running unopposed, has the National Conference for Unification elect him President of the Fourth Republic of Korea.^[12] 11/31
• 1979 – The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland. 12/31
• 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group. 13/31
• 1971 – 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. 14/31
• 1964 – 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. 15/31
• 1963 – An explosion at the Cane Creek potash mine near Moab, Utah kills 18 miners.^[10][11] 16/31
• 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA. 17/31
• 1956 – The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale. 18/31
• 1955 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain.^[9] 19/31
• 1943 – World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. 20/31
• 1942 – First day of the Sarny Massacre, perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians. 21/31
• 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft. 22/31
• 1933 – The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein. 23/31
• 1928 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it. 24/31
• 1927 – 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?" 25/31
• 1922 – Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece. 26/31
• 1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil. 27/31
• 1916 – World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations. 28/31
• 1915 – Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona, by Rev. Louis M. Lesches. 29/31
• 1914 – World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat. 30/31
• 1908 – The Qing dynasty promulgates the Qinding Xianfa Dagang, the first constitutional document in the history of China, transforming the Qing empire into a constitutional monarchy.^[7] 31/31