Today in History - 27 August, 2025

Notable Events, Birthdays & Anniversaries

27 August 2025

Events

• 1883
  Final Krakatoa explosion heard 3000 miles away.
• 1928
  Kellogg–Briand Pact signed, renouncing war.
• 2003
  Mars closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years.

Birthdays

• 1770
  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel — German philosopher.
• 1908
  Lyndon B. Johnson — 36th President of USA.

Death Anniversaries

• 1958
  Ernest Orlando Lawrence — Nobel Prize-winning physicist.