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Today in History August 27

479 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Mycale won by Greek forces over Persian naval troops on Ionian coast, double victory with that at Plataea ends Persian invasion

1626 The Danes are crushed by the Catholic League in Germany, marking the end of Danish intervention in European wars.

1883 Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people

1894 The United States congress passes an income tax law as part of a general tariff act, but it is found unconstitutional.

1910 Thomas Edison demonstrates the first "talking" pictures--using a phonograph--in his New Jersey laboratory.

1912 Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes first appears in a magazine.

1945 B-29 Superfortress bombers begin to drop supplies into Allied prisoner of war camps in China.

2008Democrats nominate Barack Obama for president, first African American (half white) nominated by a major political party for the office of President of the United States.

2012 First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity.

2020 Hurricane Laura makes landfall in Louisiana near the Texas border as a category 4 storm with 150 mph winds, killing at least 16

2021 Britain's Prince Andrew served with a US federal lawsuit alleging he sexually abused a teenager 20 years ago


Born on August 27

1943Tuesday Weld(80th Birthday) American actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country), born in NYC, New York

1952 Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens), actor (Pee-Wee's Playhouse children's TV series, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure).


Joke of the Day

An old man and his wife are getting ready for bed one night when all of a sudden the old lady bursts out of the bathroom, flings open her robe and yells "Super pussy!" And the old man says, "I'll have the soup.”