Today in History for 27th August 2022:
Historical Events
1913 – Lt Pyotr Nesterov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1966 – Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
1983 – Haiti adopts constitution
1984 – US President Ronald Reagan announces ‘Teacher in Space’ project
1992 – CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
2004 – In a huge upset in the men’s basketball semi final at the Athens Olympics, Argentina beats a star-studded but unsettled US team 89-81; they go on to take gold and US bronze
Famous Birthdays
1752 – Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist (History of Mankind), born in Termunten, Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1824)
1899 – C. S. Forester, English historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1966)
1937 – J.D. Crowe, American bluegrass banjo player and band leader (The New South), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 2021)
1939 – Edward Patten, American soul singer (Gladys Knight and the Pips), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2005)
1943 – [Susan] Tuesday Weld, American actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country), born in NYC, New York
1979 – Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist (Arcade Fire), born in British Columbia
Famous Deaths
1828 – Eise J Eisinga, constructed planetarium at Franeker, dies at 84
1871 – William Whiting Boardman, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut), dies at 76
1879 – Rowland Hill, English inventor who introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840), dies at 84
1979 – Louis Mountbatten, British naval officer and statesman, last Viceroy of India (1947), is assassinated by an IRA bomb on his boat in Ireland at 79
1999 – Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
2003 – Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)