On This Day in History August 27, 2023

Historical Events 663  Battle of Baekgang: Tang Chinese and Silla Korean forces defeat Korean Baekje forces and their Yamato Japanese allies on the Geum River in Korea. Last Japanese invasion of Korea for 900 years. 1789  French National Assembly issues the "Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen" 1883  Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people 1928  Kellogg-Briand Pact, 60 nations agree to condemn 'recourse to war for the solution of international controversies'. 1979  1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of them children by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland Famous Birthdays Charles Rolls 1877 - 1910 Donald Bradman 1908 - 2001 Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 - 1973 Theodore Dreiser 1871 - 1945 More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Lord Mountbatten 1900 - 1979 Stevie Ray Vaughan 1954 - 1990 More Famous Deaths August 27: Krakatoa: The World’s Mightiest Explosion The world’s biggest-ever explosion – 13,000 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb – happened on this day as eruptions of the Krakatoa volcano reached a climax Read the Article