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. 1776 The Americans are defeated by the British at the Battle of Long Island, New York. 1793 Maximilien Robespierre is elected to the Committee of Public Safety in Paris, France. 1813 The Allies defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Dresden. 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 Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes first appears in a magazine. 1916 Italy declares war on Germany. 1941 The Prime Minister of Japan, Fumimaro Konoye, issues an invitation for a meeting with President Roosevelt. 1963 Cambodia severs ties with South Vietnam. 1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill of England complete tandem bicycle ride around the world, a record 18,020 miles (29,000.4 km). 1979 Lord Mountbatten is killed by an Irish terrorist bomb in his sail boat in Sligo, Ireland. 1991 Moldavia declares independence from USSR. 1993 The Rainbow Bridge, a 1,870-foot suspension bridge over Tokyo Bay, completed. 2008 Democrats nominate Barack Obama for president, first African American 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.
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