August 27: Independence Day in Moldova (1991)
Edwin Drake
- 1859 – Edwin Drake (pictured) successfully drilled for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, resulting in the Pennsylvania oil rush, the first oil boom in the United States.
- 1896 – The United Kingdom and Zanzibar went to war, with Zanzibar surrendering less than an hour after the conflict broke out.
- 1979 – In two separate attacks, IRA bombs killed 18 British soldiers near Warrenpoint, and British admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others in County Sligo.
- 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Moldova declared its independence during the aftermath of the failure of the Soviet coup d'état attempt.
- 2009 – The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies began three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
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