It happened on this day, August 27th.
Events:
813 – Al-Ma'mun, son of Harun Al-Rashid, assumes the caliphate in the Abbasid state after the assassination of his brother Al-Amin.
1513 – Portugal occupies Azemmour, after the landing of the fleet at anchor in Mazgan.
1883 – A flood in Indonesia kills 36,000 people.
1896 – Outbreak of the Anglo-Zanzibar War, which is the shortest war in history, lasting about forty minutes and ending in victory for the United Kingdom.
1939 – First jet flight.
1979 – The Irish Republican Army assassinates Lord Louis Mountbatten, uncle of Queen Elizabeth and the last Viceroy of India, along with 18 British soldiers.
1991 – Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew sweeps across Arizona, causing $1 billion in losses.
2001 – Israeli warplanes fired missiles at the headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Ramallah, killing the Front's secretary-general, Abu Ali Mustafa, who was in his office at the time.
2009 – Saudi Deputy Interior Minister Prince Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud survived an assassination attempt by a wanted security agent who claimed to be surrendering. He entered the deputy minister's office, located at his home in Jeddah, and after entering, blew himself up, while Prince Muhammad was only lightly injured, and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attack.
2017 – Hurricane Harvey hits the U.S. state of Texas, causing severe flooding and property damage, and killing more than 3 people.
2020 – New Zealand courts sentence Brenton Tarrant, the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch massacre, to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, making it the first time this sentence has been imposed in New Zealand's history.
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Births:
1666 – Tsar Ivan V, Tsar of Russia.
1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher
1865 – Charles Gates Dewees, Vice President of the United States, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925.
1867 – Alfred Lucas, British chemist who worked on Tutankhamun's tomb.
1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931.
1884 – Vincent Oriol, President of France.
1908 – Lyndon Johnson, President of the United States.
1915 – Norman Ramsey, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989.
1925 – Nat Lofthouse, English footballer and manager.
1930 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler and boxer.
1932 – Sai Zerbo, Burkinabe military officer.
1939 – Hani Al-Romani, Syrian actor and director.
1953 – Ali Abdullah Jaber, Saudi religious scholar and imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
1953 – Peter Stormare, Swedish actor.
1967 – Igor Dobrovolsky, Russian footballer.
1968 – Noraniza Idris, Malaysian singer.
1969 – Chandra Wilson, American actress.
1971 – Aygul Ozkan, German politician.
1972 – The Great Khali, Indian wrestler.
1973 – Dietmar Hamann, German footballer.
1975 – Chung Sai Ho, Hong Kong footballer.
1976 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress.
** Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player.
1977 – Deco, Portuguese footballer.
1979 – Nasreddine Karaouch, Algerian footballer.
1980 – Hedi Karam, Egyptian actress.
1981 – Maxwell Andrade, Brazilian footballer.
1982 – Malak, Kuwaiti actress.
1984 – David Bentley, English footballer.
** Sulley Ali Muntari, Ghanaian footballer.
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Death:
1576 – Titian, Italian painter.
1635 – Lope de Vega, Spanish writer and poet.
1958 – Ernest Orlando Lawrence, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939.
1975 – Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia.
1979 – Louis Mountbatten, British military man and last military ruler of India.
2001 – Abu Ali Mustafa, Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
** Ramadan Abdel Tawab, Egyptian linguist.
2007 – Idriss Basri, Moroccan politician.
2012 – Aboud Rojo, Kenyan cleric.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in Moldova.
