Daily Calendar for Monday, August 27, 2029
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Monday, August 27, 2029
Died
- Tomas Luis de Victoria (composer) –
- Ernest Lawrence (American physicist; died in Palo Alto, California) –
- W.E.B. Du Bois (founder of the Niagara Movement, which eventually merged with the NAACP) –
- Gracie Allen (actress & comedienne) –
- Brian Epstein (manager of The Beatles) –
- Margaret Bourke-White (American photographer) –
- Stevie Ray Vaughan (blues musician) –
Born
- Giuseppe Peano (mathematician) –
- Theodore Dreiser (author) –
- Carl Bosch (chemist) –
- Katharine McCormick (women’s rights activist) –
- Lyndon B. Johnson (36th U.S. president) –
- Lester Young (jazz musician) –
- Tom Ford (fashion designer) –
- Chandra Wilson (actress) –
- Sarah Chalke (actress) –
- Aaron Paul (actor) –
- Alexa Vega (actress who starred as Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids movie series) –
Events
- The first English theatrical performance in the American colonies was held –
- Town of York in Upper Canada founded (renamed Toronto in 1834) –
- Edwin L Drake drilled the first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, the beginning of the commercial development of the American petroleum industry –
- Charles Gerard Conn received a patent for an all metal clarinet –
- First autogiro loop-the-loop performed in public, in Cleveland, Ohio –
- Largest trade at the time in NBA history, 11 players, 3 teams –
Weather
- Sea Islands Hurricane hit near Savannah, Georgia –
- The temperature in Buffalo, New York, reached 99 degrees F –
- Hurricane Cleo battered southern Florida –
- Thunderstorms in North Dakota dropped 6 inches of rain on the town of Linton in 1 hour –
- Hurricane Irene made landfall near Cape Lookout, North Carolina. –