This Day in History Aug. 27

blue water massey

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Aug. 27

1776 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1789 French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of the Rights of Man & the Citizen"
1813 French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians
1859 1st commercially successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
1896 Zanzibar loses to England in a 38 minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1913 Lt Peter Nestrov, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev
1916 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
1918 U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican and their German advisors in
the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
1921 The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali as King Faisal I of Iraq.
1927 Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking,
"Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act,
1867, include female persons?"
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1939 Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1943 Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater
1962 Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1966 Francis Chichester begins the 1st solo sail around the world
1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill complete tandem bicycle ride, a 18,020 mile around the world
1981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard the Andrea Doria
1982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1984 President Reagan announces the Teacher in Space project
1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1990 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1993 The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
 
Some back ground on the 1918 US/Mexican skirmish - In a communication between Germany and Mexico, to become known as the "Zimmerman Telegraph", Germany urged Mexico to declare war on the US. Germany would supply Mexico with all the war material needed to ensure Mexico could reclaim Texas and New Mexico. Embroiling the US with Mexico was Germany's strategy for keeping the US out of the European war. The perfidy of the Zimmerman Telegraph and sinking of the Lusitania where what brought the US into WWI.
 
that 1st oil well is just a hop skip & a jump away.. Oh how it changed the world & ruined the landscape
Of Titusville.....
 

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