Wednesday, August 27, 2014

History for August 27

History for August 27 - On-This-Day.com:
Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S.) 1908, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Theresa) 1910, Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens 1952 


1789 - The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted by the French National Assembly. 


1858 - The first cabled news dispatch was sent and was published by "The New York Sun" newspaper. The story was about the peace demands of England and France being met by China. 


1859 - The first oil well was successfully drilled in the U.S. by Colonel Edwin L. Drake near Titusville, PA


1889 - Charles G. Conn received a patent for the metal clarinet. 


1894 - The Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The provision within for a graduated income tax was later struck down by the U.S.Supreme Court. 


1921 - The owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers. (NFL


1938 - Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt a poetry recital by another poet, Archibald MacLeish. 


1981 - Work began on recovering a safe from the Andrea Doria. The Andrea Doria was a luxury liner that had sank in 1956 in the waters off ofMassachusetts


1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the first citizen to go into space would be a teacher. The teacher that was eventually chosen was Christa McAuliffe. She died in the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986. 


1996 - California Governor Pete Wilson signed an order that would halt state benefits to illegal immigrants. 


1998 - "Titanic" became the first movie in North America to earn more than $600 million. 


2001 - Work began on the future site of a World War II memorial on the U.S. capital's historic national Mall. The site is between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. 

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