Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 27

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 * 1776 – British forces led by William Howe defeated the Continental Army under George Washington at the Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War.
 * 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeated the Royal Navy, preventing them from capturing the harbour of Grand Port on Mauritius.
 * 1832 – Black Hawk, the leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrendered to U.S. authorities to end the Black Hawk War.
 * 1928 – The first three of more than sixty nations signed the Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of national policy.
 * 1979 – The Troubles: IRA bombs killed 18 British soldiers in an ambush near Warrenpoint, and British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore.
 * 1990 – American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the most influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s, was killed in a helicopter crash.
 * 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashed while inadvertently attempting to take off from the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49 of the 50 people on board, and causing the Federal Aviation Administration to modify air traffic control rules.
 * 2009 – The Myanmar military junta and ethnic armies began three days of violent clashes in the region of Kokang.


 * Born/died: | Eric III of Denmark |d|1146| Josquin des Prez |d|1521| Francisco de Zurbarán |d|1664| James Thomson |d|1748| Giorgio Mitrovich |b|1795| William Hayden English |b|1822| Rebecca Clarke |b|1886| Man Ray |b|1890| Samuel C. Pomeroy |d|1891| Norman Ramsey Jr. |b|1915 Paul Reubens |b|1952| Brian Epstein |d|1967| Jim Thome |b|1970|