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Events

• 1810 (216 years ago) Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
• 1813 (213 years ago) French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
• 1962 (64 years ago) The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
• 1971 (55 years ago) An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
• 1991 (35 years ago) The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
• 2003 (23 years ago) Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.

Births

• 1770 (256 years ago) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and academic (died 1831)
• 1856 (170 years ago) Ivan Franko, Ukrainian author and poet (died 1916)
• 1865 (161 years ago) Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1951)
• 1871 (155 years ago) Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (died 1945)
• 1874 (152 years ago) Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
• 1908 (118 years ago) Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (died 1973)
• 1941 (85 years ago) Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (died 2011)
• 1986 (40 years ago) Sebastian Kurz, Austrian politician, 25th Chancellor of Austria

Deaths

• 1576 (450 years ago) Titian, Italian painter and educator (born 1488)
• 1590 (436 years ago) Pope Sixtus V,
• 1635 (391 years ago) Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (born 1562)
• 1664 (362 years ago) Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter and educator (born 1598)
• 1950 (76 years ago) Cesare Pavese, Italian author, poet, and critic (born 1908)
• 1958 (68 years ago) Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)
• 1965 (61 years ago) Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (born 1887)
• 1975 (51 years ago) Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (born 1892)

All 424 events, births and deaths of August 27