Today in History for 27th August 2022

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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

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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

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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)

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