August 27, Hurricane Irene makes landfall
Today is Wednesday August 27, the 239th day of 2025. It remains 126 days a year.
Today in history:
On August 27, 2011, Hurricane Irene touched earth in the United States; The storm would be responsible for 49 deaths in total and more than $ 14 billion in damage.
Also on this date:
In 1883, the Island Krakatoa volcano broke out with a series of cataclysmic explosions. The explosions (which could be heard at 3,000 miles away) and the tsunamis resulting in the Strait of Sunday in Indonesia made some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra.
In 1894, the Congress adopted the Wilson-Gorman prices law, which contained a provision for a graduate income tax which was then canceled by the Supreme Court.
In 1964, the film “Mary Poppins” had its world premiere in Los Angeles, California.
In 1979, the hero of the British war Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson, Nicholas, were killed off the coast of Ireland in an explosion of boats claimed by the Irish republican army.
In 1982, Rickey Henderson of the Oakland stole his 119th base of the season, broke the stolen base record of Lou Brock. (Henderson would end the season with 130 stolen bases updated.)
In 1990, the musician Blues Stevie Ray Vaughn and four others were killed in a helicopter accident near East Troy, Wisconsin.
In 2001, Israeli helicopters pulled a pair of rockets by office windows, killing the chief of the senior OLP Mustafa Zibri.
In 2005, coastal residents blocked highways and service stations while rushed to avoid Hurricane Katrina, who was heading for New Orleans.
In 2008, Barack Obama was appointed presidency by the National Democratic Convention of Denver, becoming the first black presidential candidate of a great political party.
Today’s birthdays:
- The least Heat-Moon author William is 86 years old.
- The actor on Tuesday WELD is 82 years old.
- Former American senator Bob Kerrey, d-neb., Is 82 years old.
- The actor GW Bailey is 81 years old.
- Rock musician Alex Lifeson (Rush) is 72 years old.
- Actor Peter Stormare is 72 years old.
- Rock musician Glen Matlock (sex pistol) is 68 years old.
- Golfer Bernhard Langer is 68 years old.
- The singer Gospel Yolanda Adams is 64 years old.
- The fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford is 64 years old.
- Actor Chandra Wilson is 56 years old.
- The Jim Thome baseball renowned temple is 55 years old.
- Rapper Mase is 50 years old.
- Actor Sarah Chalke is 49 years old.
- Actor Aaron Paul is 46 years old.
- The actor Patrick J. Adams (TV: “Suits”) is 44 years old.
- The singer Mario is 39 years old.
- Actor Alexa Penavega is 37 years old.
- The singer-songwriter Kim Petras is 33 years old.
- The American Olympic basketball star and WNBA, Breanna Stewart, is 31 years old.
- The rapper / songwriter Rod Wave is 27 years.
