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Today in History August 27

1626 The Danes are crushed by the Catholic League in Germany, marking the end of Danish intervention in European wars.

1894 The United States congress passes an income tax law as part of a general tariff act, but it is found unconstitutional.

1910 Thomas Edison demonstrates the first "talking" pictures--using a phonograph--in his New Jersey laboratory.

1912 Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes first appears in a magazine.

1945 B-29 Superfortress bombers begin to drop supplies into Allied prisoner of war camps in China.

2008Democrats nominate Barack Obama for president, first African American (half white) nominated by a major political party for the office of President of the United States.

2012 First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity.


Born on August 27

1952 Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens), actor (Pee-Wee's Playhouse children's TV series, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure).


Joke of the Day

An old man and his wife are getting ready for bed one night when all of a sudden the old lady bursts out of the bathroom, flings open her robe and yells "Super pussy!" And the old man says, "I'll have the soup.”