Here are some events that have happened on this date.
In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
In this photo, French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, center standing, gives his address in the Palais D’Orsay, Paris, Aug. 27, 1928, before the signing of the Pact Of Peace by 15 nations. Seated at table, left to right; Paul Haymans, Belgian Foreign Minister; German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann; Briand; Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State; Lord Ronald Cushendun, Acting Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for Britain.
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AP Photo
In 1949, a violent white mob prevented an outdoor concert headlined by Paul Robeson from taking place near Peekskill, New York. (The concert was held eight days later.)
In this photo, fighting rages at picnic grove in Peekskill, New York, the night of Aug. 27,1949 as veterans break up scheduled concert by black singer Paul Robeson.
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AP Photo
In 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London flat from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills; he was 32.
2nd April 1965: Brian Epstein (1934 – 1967), manager of pop groups The Beatles, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J Kramer and Cilla Black, outside the Saville Theatre.
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Photo by Larry Ellis/Express/Getty Images
In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, were killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army.
Charles, Prince of Wales, speaks at the lectern with other members of the British royal family in attendance at the Westiminster Abbey funeral service for Lord Louis Mountbatten in London on Sept. 5, 1979. Lord Mountbatten, great-uncle to Prince Charles, was one of the victims of a terrorist bomb attack on his boating party off the coast of Ireland.
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AP Photo
In 2008, Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
FILE – In this Aug. 23, 2008, file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., appears at a campaign stop in Springfield, Ill. He was a first-term senator-turned-president. A former law professor with little experience in economics or management. When he walked into the White House he had one, clear job: Piece together the shards of a shattered U.S. economy. It wasn’t smooth and it wasn’t fast, but Obama ultimately succeeded. Obama will leave behind an economy far stronger than the one he inherited by most measures.
(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File
In 1964, the Walt Disney movie musical fantasy “Mary Poppins,” starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
FILE – In this June 25, 1963, file photo, Dick Van Dyke, left, is airborne during a dance with Julie Andrews, right, during the filming of “Mary Poppins” in Los Angeles. The 91-year-old Van Dyke confirmed to several outlets on Dec. 19, 2016, that he will appear in an upcoming sequel to the 1964 film.
(AP Photo/Don Brinn, File)
AP Photo/Don Brinn, File
In 2009, Jaycee Lee Dugard, kidnapped when she was 11, was reunited with her mother 18 years after her abduction in South Lake Tahoe, California.
FILE – This Aug. 27, 2009 file family photo provided by Carl Probyn shows his stepdaughter, Jaycee Lee Dugard, who went missing in 1991. The California couple charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years are due back in court Thursday, April 7, 2011, as prosecutors and defense lawyers continue talks on a possible plea deal. Dugard was abducted in June 1991 on her way to school in South Lake Tahoe. Then 11, she was held for 18 years by Phillip and Nancy Garrido. She was raped repeatedly by Garrido and gave birth to two daughters. Dugard was freed after she and her two children appeared in public with Phillip Garrido and a police interrogation revealed her identity. Convicted of kidnapping and rape, Garrido was sentenced to 431 years in prison and his wife 36 years to life.
(AP Photo/Carl Probyn, File)
On August 27, 2008, Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
On this date:
In 1776, the Battle of Long Island began during the Revolutionary War as British troops attacked American forces who ended up being forced to retreat two days later.
In 1859, Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the United States, at Titusville, Pa.
In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
In 1949, a violent white mob prevented an outdoor concert headlined by Paul Robeson (RAH’-buh-suhn) from taking place near Peekskill, New York. (The concert was held eight days later.)
In 1963, author, journalist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois died in Accra, Ghana, at age 95.
In 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson accepted his party’s nomination for a term in his own right, telling the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, “Let us join together in giving every American the fullest life which he can hope for.”
In 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London flat from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills; he was 32.
In 1975, Haile Selassie (HY’-lee sehl-AH’-see), the last emperor of Ethiopia’s 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown.
In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, were killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army.
In 1989, the first U.S. commercial satellite rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida _ a Delta booster carrying a British communications satellite, the Marcopolo 1.
In 2005, Coastal residents jammed freeways and gas stations as they rushed to get out of the way of Hurricane Katrina, which was headed toward New Orleans.
In 2006, a Comair CRJ-100 crashed after trying to take off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Ky., killing 49 people and leaving the co-pilot the sole survivor.
Ten years ago: Mourners filed past the closed casket of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. Jaycee Lee Dugard, kidnapped when she was 11, was reunited with her mother 18 years after her abduction in South Lake Tahoe, California. Alex Grass, 82, founder of the Rite Aid drugstore chain, died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Five years ago: Both Israel’s prime minister and Hamas declared victory in the Gaza war, though their competing claims left questions over future terms of their uneasy peace still lingering. The University of Southern California suspended cornerback Josh Shaw for 10 games after he confessed to lying to school officials about how he’d sprained his ankles, retracting his story about jumping off a balcony to save his drowning nephew. (Shaw reportedly jumped from the balcony of an apartment following an argument with his girlfriend; he was reinstated after authorities determined no criminal charges would be filed against him.)
One year ago: Under pressure to take part in the national remembrance of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, with whom he had feuded, President Donald Trump tersely recognized McCain’s “service to our country” and re-lowered the White House flag, which had been at half-staff only briefly after McCain’s death. The Trump administration reached a preliminary deal with Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. Simona Halep (HAL’-ehp) lost in the first round of the U.S. Open to Kaia Kanepi (KY’-uh kuh-NEP’-ee) of Estonia, becoming the first top-seeded woman to lose her opening match at the tournament in the half-century of the professional era.
