What happend on 27th August

26.08
28.08
1969

The first installment of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo (It's Tough Being a Man) movies is released in Japan. Director and screenplay writer Yoji Yamada went on to make 48 installments of the series, which is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running movie series.

1962

Mariner 2 launched

1952

Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks.

1939

First jet aircraft flight

1937

The automobile division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works is spun off into the Toyota Motor Corporation.

1928

Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed by sixty nations

1900

British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal

1896

Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (9:02 to 9:40) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

1883

The after effects caused by the Krakatau explosion in Indonesia kills 36,000 people.

1861

Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina