August 27th

August 27 is the 240th day of the year.  There are 126 days remaining until the end of the year.

1665 "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is 1st play performed in North America (Acomac, Virginia)

1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake who was hoping to strike Astroglide. . .

1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"

1913 Lt Peter Nesterov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)

1927 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens in STLMO. They don’t teach tricks, though.

1928 The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so. Ultimately 61 nations will sign it for all the good it does.

1941 Shah of Iran starts a family tradition by abdicating

1955 Guinness Book of World Records 1st published

1965 Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley who has a go with each of them between dinner courses

1976 Transsexual Renee Richards is barred from competing in U.S. Tennis Open as a woman. NO H8!

1984 President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project. And, how does that work out, Ronnie?

1947 Harry Reems [Herbert Streicher], US pornographic actor/Deep Throat 

1952 Paul Reubens, gay US actor/comedian/Pee-Wee 

1953 Peter Stormare, Swedish actor 

1961 Tom Ford, gay US fashion designer/director 

1968 Agustin Arana, Mexican actor 

1969 [Reeson] Reece Shearsmith, English actor 

1970 Gene Gabriel [Eugene Jimenez], US actor 

1970 Gustavo Salmerón, maybe gay Spanish actor 

1973 Cory Bowles, maybe gay Canadian actor/director/dancer/hip hop artist

1975  Bodie Olmos, maybe gay US actor/son of Edward James Olmos/grandson of Howard Keel 

1976 Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player 

1976 Francesco Venditti, maybe gay Italian actor 

1976 Tony Ryan/Ricky Starr, gay US pornographic actor

1979 Aaron Paul [Aaron Paul Sturtevant], US actor 

1982 Gabor Kucsera, Hungarian canoeist 

1963 W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] Du Bois, free-born US scholar/author/founder (NAACP), learns first hand about the souls of black folk

1967 Brian Epstein, gay English rock manager (Beatles), can no longer bear the remorse for missing the evening with Elvis

1975 His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah and King of Kings and Elect of God [Ras Tafari Makonnen], deposed Ethiopian emperor, gets a hemp treatment around his neck

1991 Gordon Heath, gay US actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), takes a hike on the street of no return

2008 Mark Priestley, maybe gay Australian actor (Changi, All Saints), buys the farm