On This Day in History — August 27

• 2011 — Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.
• 2009 — Internal conflict in Burma: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
• 2006 — Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in...
• 2003 — Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
• 2003 — The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
• 1991 — The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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Notable Births on August 27

• 1993 — Sarah Hecken, German figure skater
• 1993 — Olivier Le Gac, French cyclist
• 1992 — Blake Jenner, American actor and singer
• 1992 — Stephen Morris, American football player
• 1992 — Kim Petras, German singer-songwriter
• 1991 — Lee Sung-yeol, South Korean actor and singer

Notable Deaths on August 27

• 2015 — Kazi Zafar Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician, 8th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1939)
• 2015 — Pascal Chaumeil, French director and screenwriter (b. 1961)
• 2015 — Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player and coach (b. 1957)
• 2014 — Jacques Friedel, French physicist and academic (b. 1921)
• 2014 — Valeri Petrov, Bulgarian poet, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2014 — Benno Pludra, German author (b. 1925)

On This Day in History — August 28

• 1998 — Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
• 1998 — Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
• 1993 — The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
• 1990 — Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
• 1990 — An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
• 1988 — Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.

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Notable Births on August 28

• 2003 — Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress
• 1994 — Bobby Andonov, Australian singer
• 1994 — Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player
• 1994 — Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
• 1993 — Jakub Sokolík, Czech footballer
• 1992 — Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast

Notable Deaths on August 28

• 2016 — Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
• 2016 — Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1934)
• 2015 — Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2015 — Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (b. 1920)
• 2015 — Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (b. 1937)
• 2014 — Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (b. 1947)