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Anglo-Zanzibar War

130 years ago

Born this day

1770

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Died aged 61

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743rd

Aragonese Crusade

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Famous births28

1666 · 360 yrs

Ivan V of Russia

Ivan V Alekseyevich (Russian: Иван V Алексеевич; 6 September 1666 – 8 February 1696) was Tsar of all Russia between 1682 and 1696, jointly ruling with his younger half-brother Peter I.

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RoyaltyDied aged 29

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1770 · 256 yrs

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and a major figure in the tradition of German idealism.

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PhilosophyDied aged 61

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1809 · 217 yrs

Hannibal Hamlin

Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was an American politician and diplomat who was the 15th vice president of the United States, serving from 1861 to 1865, during President Abraham Lincoln's first term. He was the first Republican vice president.

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PoliticsDied aged 81

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1856 · 170 yrs

Ivan Franko

Ivan Yakovych Franko PhD (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко, pronounced; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in Ukrainian.

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LiteratureDied aged 59

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1858 · 168 yrs

Giuseppe Peano

Giuseppe Peano (Italian:; 27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932) was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation, for instance, notations of set operations.

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ScienceDied aged 73

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1865 · 161 yrs

Charles G. Dawes

Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under President Calvin Coolidge. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 for his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations, and a member of the Republican Party.

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PoliticsDied aged 85

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1871 · 155 yrs

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

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LiteratureDied aged 74

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1874 · 152 yrs

Carl Bosch

Carl Bosch (German pronunciation:; 27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company.

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TechnologyDied aged 65

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1884 · 142 yrs

Vincent Auriol

Vincent Jules Auriol (French:; 27 August 1884 – 1 January 1966) was President of France from 1947 to 1954. A member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), he was the first president elected under the Fourth Republic.

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PoliticsWould be 142

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1890 · 136 yrs

Man Ray

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American-born, French-naturalized visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal.

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ArtWould be 136

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1908 · 118 yrs

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He served as the 37th vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1963, before assuming the presidency upon Kennedy's assassination.

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PoliticsWould be 118

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1915 · 111 yrs

Norman Foster Ramsey

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method (see Ramsey interferometry), which had important applications in the construction of atomic clocks.

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ScienceWould be 111

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Famous deaths15

1590 · 436 yrs

Sixtus V

Pope Sixtus V (Italian: Sisto V; 13 December 1521 – 27 August 1590), born Felice Piergentile, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 April 1585 to his death in August 1590.

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ReligionDied aged 69

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1635 · 391 yrs

Lope de Vega

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature. In the literature of Spain, Lope de Vega is often considered second only to Miguel de Cervantes.

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LiteratureDied aged 72

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1664 · 362 yrs

Francisco de Zurbarán

Francisco de Zurbarán ( ZOOR-bə-RAHN, Spanish:; baptized 7 November 1598 – 27 August 1664) was a Spanish Baroque painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes.

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ArtDied aged 65

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1950 · 76 yrs

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese (UK: pav-AY-zay, -⁠zee, Italian:; 9 September 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time.

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LiteratureWould be 118

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1958 · 68 yrs

Ernest Lawrence

Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron.

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ScienceWould be 125

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1963 · 63 yrs

W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( doo-BOYSS; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community.

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ActivismDied aged 95

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1965 · 61 yrs

Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who is described as one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

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ArtWould be 139

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1967 · 59 yrs

Brian Epstein

Brian Samuel Epstein ( EP-styne; 19 September 1934 – 27 August 1967) was an English music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles from 1961 until his death in 1967. Epstein was born into a family of successful retailers in Liverpool, who put him in charge of their music shop, where he displayed a gift for talent-spotting.

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BusinessWould be 92

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1975 · 51 yrs

Haile Selassie I

Haile Selassie I (born Tafari Makonnen or Lij Tafari; 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as the Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (Enderase) under Empress Zewditu between 1916 and 1930.

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RoyaltyWould be 134

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1979 · 47 yrs

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, and member of the British royal family.

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MilitaryWould be 126

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1990 · 36 yrs

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990), also known abbreviated as SRV, was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.

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MusicWould be 72

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2009 · 17 yrs

Sergey Mikhalkov

Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Михалков; 13 March 1913 – 27 August 2009) was a Russian author of children's books and satirical fables. He wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems.

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LiteratureWould be 113

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Events5

1283 · 743 yrs

Aragonese Crusade

The Aragonese Crusade (1284–1285), also known as the Crusade of Aragon or Crusade against Catalonia, was a military venture waged by the Kingdom of France against the Crown of Aragon.

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War

1776 · 250 yrs

Battle of Long Island

The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, was an action of the American Revolutionary War fought on August 27, 1776, at and near the western edge of Long Island in present-day Brooklyn.

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War

1896 · 130 yrs

Anglo-Zanzibar War

The Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, marking it as the shortest recorded war in history.

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War

1928 · 98 yrs

Kellogg-Briand pact

The Kellogg–Briand Pact or Pact of Paris (officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy) is a 1928 international agreement on peace in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which…

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Politics

2017 · 9 yrs

2017 Belgian Grand Prix

The 2017 Belgian Grand Prix (formally known as the 2017 Formula 1 Pirelli Belgian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 27 August 2017 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Stavelot, Belgium.

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