What happened on 27 August?

15 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1908 Born: Lyndon B. Johnson 36th President of the United States, sworn in after JFK's assassination in 1963. Architect of the Great Society and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts; presided over the escal
2. 1883 Krakatoa eruption Catastrophic volcanic eruption in the Sunda Strait; explosion heard thousands of kilometres away.
3. 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact Multilateral renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy.
4. 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk Sino-Russian boundary treaty.
5. 1908 Born: Don Bradman Australian cricketer; greatest batsman of all time.
6. 1770 Born: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The German idealist whose dialectical philosophy of history shaped Marx, existentialism and modern thought.
7. 1859 Drake drills first commercial oil well Edwin Drake strikes oil at 21 m near Titusville, Pennsylvania — the moment the modern petroleum industry is conventionally dated from.
8. 1916 Romania enters WW1 Romania joins the Entente; quickly overrun by Central Powers.
9. 1939 First jet aircraft flies Germany's Heinkel He 178 makes the first flight of a turbojet aircraft, opening the jet age.
10. 1979 Mountbatten and Warrenpoint In one day the IRA kills Lord Mountbatten — the Queen's cousin — with a bomb on his boat in Sligo, and 18 British soldiers in a double ambush at Warrenpoint, the army's worst loss
11. 1776 The British take New York Weeks after the Declaration, the largest expeditionary force Britain has ever sent abroad routs Washington on Long Island; only a fog-covered night evacuation saves his army. New Y
12. 479 BCE Battle of Mycale Greek fleet under Leotychidas destroys the Persian fleet at Mycale on the same day as Plataea; ends Persian invasions.
13. 1743 Henry Pelham's premiership Pelham steadies the Whig supremacy, ends the War of the Austrian Succession and reforms the calendar.
14. 1626 Denmark enters and is beaten Christian IV of Denmark invades northern Germany to defend the Protestant cause and his own ambitions — and is crushed by Tilly at Lutter and driven from the war by Wallenstein wit
15. 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War The shortest war in history: the Royal Navy shells the Sultan's palace for thirty-eight minutes and the pretender flees.