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  • 27 Aug 2003

    World's biggest battery switched on in Alaska.

  • 27 Aug 2003

    Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years.

  • 27 Aug 1991

    Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

  • 27 Aug 1985

    Military coup in Nigeria.

  • 27 Aug 1964

    Disney's Mary Poppins was released and premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.

  • 27 Aug 1962

    NASA Launches Mariner 2.

  • 27 Aug 1950

    For the first time in history, the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) transmitted a two-hour-long live broadcast from Calais, France, to television screens in the UK.

  • 27 Aug 1939

    The world's first jet-powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, completed its first flight.

  • 27 Aug 1910

    Two baseball teams played a night match at White Sox Party using three 100-foot towers lit with 12 electric lamps.

  • 27 Aug 1883

    In Java, Indonesia, the Krakatoa volcano erupted and destroyed 70% of the island and its surroundings.

  • 27 Aug 1881

    Hurricane Five struck Florida and caused 700 fatalities.

  • 27 Aug 1859

    American driller Edwin Laurentine Drake successfully drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania, US.

  • 27 Aug 1813

    Napoleon won the battle of Dresden against the Austrians.

  • 27 Aug 1783

    Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers released the first-ever unmanned hydrogen balloon.

  • 27 Aug 1776

    The British defeated the Americans in the Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn.

  • 27 Aug 663 AD

    Chinese and Korean forces won the two-day Battle of Baekgangon.