Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 27
This is a list of selected August 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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An early 19th century image of Krakatoa
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Destroyed buildings after the attack in the Anglo-Zanzibar War
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1939 – Flown by German test pilot Erich Warsitz, experimental jet plane Heinkel He 178 became the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1859 – Edwin Drake successfully drilled for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, US, resulting in the Pennsylvanian oil rush and the birth of the modern oil industry. | Tagged with {{refimprove}}, oil rush article is stubby |
| 1883 – Four enormous explosions from the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa generated tsunamis that destroyed many settlements on Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. | Krakatoa needs more footnotes, eruption article needs more refs |
| 1922 – Turkish forces re-captured Afyon, the first victory of their counterattack during the Greco-Turkish War. | article may be split |
| 1957 – The Constitution of Malaya came into force, three days before the Federation of Malaya achieved formal independence from the United Kingdom. | Refimprove |
| 1979 – An IRA bomb killed British admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Ireland. | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 1776 – British forces led by William Howe defeated the American Continental Army under George Washington at the Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War.
- 1896 – The United Kingdom and Zanzibar went to war, with Zanzibar surrendering less than an hour after the conflict broke out.
- 1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyen Khanh entered into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Tran Thien Khiem and Duong Van Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khanh.
- 1979 – IRA bombs killed 18 British soldiers near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland.
- 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Moldova declared its independence during the aftermath of the failure of the Soviet coup d'état attempt.
- 2000 – Moscow's Ostankino Tower caught fire, killing three people and disrupting television and radio signals around the city.
- 2003 – The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years: 55,758,006 kilometres (34,646,419 mi).
- 2006 – Comair Flight 191 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 rules regarding air traffic controllers.
August 27: Independence Day in Moldova (1991)
- 1689 – The Tsardom of Russia and Qing Dynasty China signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk, the first treaty between the two nations.
- 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeated the Royal Navy (pictured), preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de la Passe.
- 1928 – Over sixty nations signed the Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of national policy.
- 1985 – The Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari was overthrown by Ibrahim Babangida.
- 2009 – The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies began three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.