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August 27 is the 239th day of the year (240th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 126 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 410 ...
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Events. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Members of the 1st Maryland Regiment repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force during the Battle of Long Island, allowing General Washington and the rest of the American troops to escape.
The Pentagon reports that the MT Sounion appears to be leaking its 150,000 ton supply of oil into the Red Sea, and is still on fire since Houthi attacks on August 22. Efforts to salvage the tanker have been repelled by Houthi threats.
Disasters and accidents 2020 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Laura downgrades from a Category 4 to Category 2 hurricane but remains "extremely dangerous" after lashing the coasts of Texas and Louisiana early Thursday. It has killed 30 people thus far. (AP) A shelter-in-place is issued after a chemical fire breaks out in Lake Charles, Louisiana. (CBS News) The South's Defenders Monument, a ...
The Italian Health ministry signs a decree which moves Sicily into the "yellow zone" and will reimpose some restrictions such as the mask mandate both outdoors and indoors and restrict restaurant diners to groups of four beginning on August 30 following an increase of COVID-19 cases.
Syrian civil war. The Russian foreign ministry warned that an attack on the Syrian government could be "catastrophic" and told Western countries to show "prudence" over the crisis happening there.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, said on August 27 Beijing was "concerned of the latest development in South Ossetia and Abkhazia." Hijackers of a Sudanese Boeing 737 free all 100 passengers at Kufra Airport in Libya but hold on to the flight crew. (AFP via Google News)