Born on August 27:
Theodore Dreiser (1871), Lyndon B. Johnson (1908), Mother Theresa (1910), Daryl Dragon (1942), Tuesday Weld (1943)
In History:
1789 - The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted by the French National Assembly
1859 - The first oil well was successfully drilled in the U.S. by Colonel Edwin L. Drake near Titusville, PA.
1938 - Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt a poetry recital by another poet, Archibald MacLeish.
1945 - American troops landed in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government at the end of World War II.
1965 - Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" was released
(Source: http://www.On-This-Day.com/onthisday/thedays/augdays/dayaug27.htm)
This page was updated on 12 August 2001.
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