Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 27
August 27: Independence Day for Moldova (1991)
- 1776 – British forces led by General William Howe defeated the Continental Army under General George Washington in the Battle of Long Island.
- 1896 – Zanzibar surrendered within an hour after the Anglo-Zanzibar War broke out.
- 1928 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, was signed by 60 nations.
- 1939 – Experimental jetplane Heinkel He 178 became the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power.
- 2003 – The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years.