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Events on August 27

• 1820 Josef Naus and his two companions are the first people on the Zugspitze. They carry out surveying work on the mountain.
• 1883 The volcano Krakatau in Indonesia produces the most violent of several eruptions since the previous day. At least 36,000 people die as a result of the eruption, tsunamis, and pyroclastic flows.
• 1910 The German socialist and women's rights activist Clara Zetkin proposes the introduction of an International Women's Day at the Second International Socialist Women's Conference in Copenhagen, without favoring a particular date. It is later fixed on March 8.
• 1939 The test flight of the world's first jet-powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, piloted by Erich Warsitz, marks the beginning of the jet age.
• 1955 The bound first edition of the book The Guinness Book of Records is published.
• 1962 The monthly satirical magazine pardon is published in the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1979 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and three other people die in an IRA bomb attack on his yacht.
• 1987 The American science fiction film Predator opens in German cinemas.
• 1990 Federal Minister of Defense Gerhard Stoltenberg commissions Lieutenant General Jörg Schönbohm to disband the NVA and integrate it into the Bundeswehr.
• 1998 1. FFC Frankfurt is founded.
• 2005 A state of emergency is declared in the US states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi due to the approaching Hurricane Katrina.
• 2006 The football World Cup for people with disabilities is ceremonially opened at the Kölnarena.

Born on August 27

• 1871 Theodore Dreiser, American writer
• 1874 Carl Bosch, German chemist, engineer, industrialist, defense industry leader, and Nobel laureate
• 1890 Man Ray, American photographer, film director, painter, and object artist of Dadaism, Surrealism, and Modernism
• 1901 Fritz Berg, German entrepreneur, first president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)
• 1941 Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer
• 1951 Christof Wackernagel, German actor, author, and RAF terrorist
• 1961 Tom Ford, American fashion designer
• 1970 Kelly Trump, German pornographic actress
• 1992 Kim Petras, German singer
• 2001 Franz Wagner, German basketball player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „27. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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