In the news

William Ruto (pictured) is elected President of Kenya.

In Giza, Egypt, a church fire spreads to a nursery, killing 41
people, including at least 18 children.
Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, is critically
injured after a stabbing at a speech in the United States.
A mass fish kill occurs in the river Oder in Poland and
Germany.
Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic · Russian invasion of Ukraine
Recent deaths: Len Dawson · Robert E. Finnigan · Shalom Cohen William Ruto
· Wayne Yates · Theo Sommer · Carl Kabat

On this day

August 27: Independence Day in Moldova (1991)

1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeated the

Royal Navy, preventing them from capturing the harbour of
Grand Port on Mauritius.
1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh
entered into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with
rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, both
of whom had been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
1990 – American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the Mars
most influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s,
was killed in a helicopter crash.
2003 – Mars (pictured) made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years,
passing within approximately 55,758,000 km (34,650,000 mi).
2009 – The Myanmar military junta and ethnic armies began three days of violent
clashes in the region of Kokang.
Josquin des Prez (d. 1521) · Rebecca Clarke (b. 1886) · Norman Foster
Ramsey Jr. (b. 1915)
More anniversaries: August 26 · August 27 · August 28

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