August 27 Dateline

Birthdays

1886 - Eric Coates (Eric Francis Harrison Coates), English composer of light music and, early in his career, a leading violist. Coates was born into a musical family but, despite his wishes and obvious talent, his parents only reluctantly allowed him to pursue a musical career. Enjoy his famous work, London Suite

1908 - Sir Don Bradman, AC (Donald George Bradman), nicknamed "The Don", Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.

1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson (born Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ), American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969, and previously as 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1910 - Mother Teresa (born Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu), Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, honoured in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

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Historical Events

1813 - Napoleon Bonaparte beats the 150,000-strong combined Austrian, Prussian, and Russian forces at the Battle of Dresden. He has with him 100,000 men.

1849 - Writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe joins the Sons of Temperance, a brotherhood of men who promoted the 'temperance movement' and mutual support. The group was founded in 1842 in New York City. It began spreading rapidly during the 1840s throughout the United States and parts of Canada.

1896 - The shortest war in history, the Anglo-Zanzibar between Britain and Zanzibar, lasts about 45 minutes.

1939 - The first turbine-powered jet aircraft flight takes place.

1979 - The IRA kills 22 people, including the Queen's cousin Lord Mountbatten, his 14 year old grandson, and 18 British soldiers, in three massive bomb blasts that rock Northern Ireland. Lord Mountbatten was on board his yacht, Shadow V.

2003 - Planets Earth and Mars are the closest they've been to each other in 60,000 years. They pass within about 35 million miles (56 million km) of each other.




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5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6.Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org



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