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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of August 27:

 1770 Georg Wilhelm F Hegel German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)
1809 Hannibal Hamlin (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
1865 Charles Gates Dawes (R) 30th VP (1925-29, Nobel 1925)
1871 Theodore Dreiser US, novelist (Sister Carrie, American Tragedy)
1882 Samuel Goldwyn pioneer film maker/producer (MGM)
1886 Eric Coates Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England, composer
1894 Charles Meredith Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort)
1899 C.S. Forester Engl, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower
19-- G.W. Bailey Port Arthur Tx, actor (Dr Beale-St Elsewhere)
19-- Harrison Page Atlanta Ga, actor (CPO Sharkey, Supertrain)
1905 Frederick O'Neal Brooksville Miss, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
1908 Frank Leahy O'Neill Nebraska, football coach (Notre Dame)
1908 Lyndon B Johnson (D) 36th Pres (1963-1969)
1908 Martha Raye [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show)
1910 Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Yugoslavia (Nobel 1979)
1915 Walter W Heller economist (Old Myths & New Realities)
1927 Liselott Linsenhoff German FR, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1972)
1929 Elizabeta Bagrintseve USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952)
1929 Ira Levin author (Rosemary's Baby, Sleuth, This Perfect Day)
1932 Antonia Fraser biographer (Mary Queen of Scots)
1937 Tommy Sands singer/actor (Teenage Rock, Dream With Me)
1941 Yuri V Malyshev cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)
1942 Daryl Dragon Pasadena Calif, keyboardist (Capt & Tennille)
1943 Susan "Tuesday" Weld NYC, actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country)
1949 Barbara Bach [Goldbach], Queens NY, actress (Spy Who Loved Me)
1950 Charles Fleischer Wash DC, comedian (Roger Rabbit)
1950 Cynthia Potter US, springboard diver (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1952 Pee-wee Herman aka Paul Reubens, actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
1954 John Lloyd tennis player (former husband of Chris Everet)
1955 Diana Scarwid actress (Extremities, Psycho 3, Strange Invaders, Heat)
1959 Gerhard Berger formula-1 racer (Italian Grand Prix-1988)
1961 "Downtown" Julie Brown TV host (Club MTV, Inside Edition)
1963 Patty Duffek Woodland Hills Calif, playmate (May, 1984)

Deaths which occurred on August 27:

1576 Titan Italian artist, dies
1635 Lope Felix de Vega dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
1840 William Kneass 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
1879 Sir Rowland Hill introduced postage stamps, dies at 84
1958 Dr Ernest O Lawrence inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), dies at 57
1963 W E B Du Bois scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana
1967 Brian Epstein Beatles' manager, dies
1971 Bennett Cerf (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
1975 Haile Selassie depossed Ethiopian emperor, dies at 83
1977 Steve Dunne actor (Professional Father), dies at 59
1978 Robert Shaw actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies at 51
1979 Earl Mountbatten British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
1980 Sam Levenson humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
1981 Joan Edwards singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62
1984 Billy Sands actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1966    COKER            GEORGE T.         LINDEN                NJ     03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV     ALIVE AND WELL 98
 1966    FELLOWES         JOHN H.           VIRGINIA BEACH        VA     03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV      ALIVE AND WELL 98
 1967    BACIK            VLADIMIR HENRY    HOUSTON               TX       
 1967    BOGGS            PASCHAL GLENN     EAST POINT            GA       
 1968    PICK             DONALD WILLIAM    RICHLAND              WA       
 1970    ROGERS           LYLE D.                                          
 1972    EVERETT          DAVID A.          BRUNSWICK             GA     03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV   ALIVE AND WELL 98
 1972    TRIEBEL          THEODORE          VIENNA                VA     03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV    ALIVE AND WELL 98

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On this day...

26 -BC- Origin of Egyptian Era
1665 "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play performed in N America (Acomac, Va)
1667 Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
1776 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1789 French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of the Rights of Man & the Citizen"
1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
1883 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
1896 Zanzibar loses to England in a 38 minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1909 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1911 Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan
1913 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1918 Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
1927 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1928 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1937 Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
1937 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
1938 Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
1939 Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1961 Francis the Talking Mule is the mystery guest on "What's My Line"
1962 Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1966 Francis Chichester begins the 1st solo sail around the world
1966 Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
1974 NY Met Benny Ayala hits a home run in his 1st at bat
1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1977 Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
1978 Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases
1978 Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard the Andrea Doria
1982 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
1982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1984 President Reagan announces the Teacher in Space project
1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1990 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1990 WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

England, Channel Is, Northern Ireland, Wales : Bank Holiday - - - - - ( Monday )
Gibralter : Late Summer Bank Holiday
Hong Kong : Liberation Day (1945) - - - - - ( Monday )

Religious Observances

RC : Memorial of St Monica, mother of St Augustine of Hippo
Old RC : Feast of St Joseph Calasanctius, confessor

Religious History

1660 Following England's Restoration, books by poet John Milton were ordered burned because of his attacks on the monarchy. Milton had advocated an elder-ruled (presbyterian) church government over that of bishop-ruled (episcopal).
1830 English churchman John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote in a letter: 'It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that He looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.'
1865 Rhenish missionary Ludwig I. Nommensen, 31, baptized four families of the Batak tribe in North Sumatra (Indonesia) the first to be converted to the Christian faith. Nommensen later established a theological training school and in 1878 completed a translation of the New Testament into the Batak language.
1876 At age 13, future English clergyman G. Campbell Morgan preached his first sermon. He later grew to become one of the most famous expository preachers and writers of late 19th century England and America.
1877 Birth of Lloyd C. Douglas, American Lutheran clergyman and religious novelist. Douglas published his first best-seller, "Magnificent Obsession," in 1929, followed later by "The Robe" (1942) and "The Big Fisherman" (1948).

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

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