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On This Day In History for August 27, 2025
This is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 126 days remaining in 2025.
- It was on this date in 1859, that Petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
- Four enormous explosions almost completely destroyed the island of Krakatoa and caused years of climate change on this date in 1883.
- That same date in 1939, saw the first flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft.
- On August 27, 1955, The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published in Great Britain..
- Also on August 27, 1962, The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission was launched to Venus by NASA.
- It was 40 years ago today that Space Shuttle Discovery was launched on STS-51 -I to deploy three communication satellites and repair a fourth malfunctioning one..
- It was also this date in 2003 that Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- Italian mathematician and philosopher, Giuseppe Peano, born on this date in 1858.
- German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate, Carl Bosch was born 151 years ago today.
- English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited, Charles Rolls, born on this date in 1877.
- Born August 27, 1915, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Norman Foster Ramsey Jr..
- Gordon Bashford, the English engineer, co-designed the Range Rover was born 109 years ago today.
- Also turning 76 today is American computer scientist, engineer, and academic Leah Jamieson.
- Russian engineer and astronaut, Sergei Krikalev is 67 today.
- Also born on that same date in 1968, Israeli-American computer scientist and academic, Daphne Koller.
- French astronomer and biologist Audrey C. Delsanti is 49 today.
Listener Birthdays
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And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 27, 2025
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News
- A Physicist Wants to Turn Jupiter’s Largest Moon Into a Gigantic Dark Matter Detector
- Eyes, and AI, on the road: UW grad’s platform scans for pavement defects to speed repair, lower costs – GeekWire
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- The Ancient Roman Dodecahedron: The Mysterious Object That Has Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries | Open Culture
- 1998: Can COMPUTERS and PHONES Combine? | The Money Programme | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
- The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD) | Open Culture
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