08-27-2007, 05:33 AM
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August 27th
1776 ~ British forces under General William Howe defeated the Americans under General George Washington in the Battle of Long Island.
1813 ~ Napoleon defeated the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1828 ~ Krakatoa erupted; approximately 36,000 people on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra drowned.
1896 ~ Anglo-Zanzibar War. With a duration of only 45 minutes, it holds the record of being the shortest war in recorded history.
1908 ~ Birthday of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president.
1928 ~ Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed by sixty nations.
1939 ~ First jet aircraft flight; a Heinkel He 178, piloted by Erich Warsitz.
1945 ~ American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.
1962 ~ The Mariner 2 space probe launched to Venus.
1979 ~ An IRA bomb killed Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday.
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