August 27

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[edit] Events

• 410 - Visigothic sack of Rome ends after three days.
• 1776 - Battle of Long Island, in present day Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
• 1813 - Napoleon defeats the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
• 1859 - Petroleum discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania. World's first successful oil well.
• 1939 - First flight of the German Heinkel He 178, the first modern jet aircraft.
• 1952 - Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmark.
• 1991
  • The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
  • Moldova declares independence from the USSR.

[edit] Births

• 1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
• 1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)

[edit] Deaths

• 1963 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights activist (b. 1868)
• 1975 - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)