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It happened one 27 August
1883 : Krakatoa explosionOn August 26, 1883, in the afternoon, several explosions occurred at Krakatoa, a small volcanic island, west of Sumatra in Indonesia, sending ashes more than 27 km high in the atmosphere. On August 27, 1883, at 10a.m., an enormous explosion, which was heard more than 4000 km away, occurred. This was the loudest noise ever heard in the human memory. During these two days, tsunamis with waves up to 46m high broke on the coast of Indonesia. 36,000 people were killed by the tsunamis and the pyroclastic flows. Temperature dropped across the planet and did not return to normal until 5 years later. |
Birthdays : 27 August
| Georg Hegel, German philosopher (1770) | |
| Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (1874) | |
| Charles Rolls, Co-founder of Rolls-Royce (1877) | |
| Vincent Auriol, French politician (1884) | |
| Man Ray, American photographer (1890) | |
| Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (1908) | |
| Norman Foster Ramsey, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1915) | |
| Darry Cowl, French actor (1925) | |
| Ira Levin, American writer (1929) | |
| Tommy Sands, American singer (1937) | |
| Tuesday Weld, American actress (1943) | |
| G. W. Bailey, American actor (1944) | |
| Barbara Bach, American actress (1947) | |
| Paul Reubens, American actor (1952) | |
| Derek Warwick, English racing driver (1954) | |
| Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut (1958) | |
| Gerhard Berger, Austrian racing driver (1959) | |
| Tom Ford, American fashion designer (1961) | |
| Tony Kanal, English musician (No Doubt) (1970) | |
| Denise Lewis, English heptathlete (1972) | |
| Deco, Portuguese footballer (1977) | |
| Aaron Paul, American actor (1979) | |
| Tian Liang, Chinese diver (1979) | |
| Damien Monier, French cyclist (1982) | |
| David Bentley, English footballer (1984) | |
| Sarah Hecken, German figure skater (1993) |
They left us one 27 August
| Tiziano Vecellio (Le Titien), Italian painter (1576) | |
| Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel laureate (1958) | |
| Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (1965) | |
| Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer (1971) | |
| Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (1975) | |
| Louis Mountbatten, English politician (1979) | |
| Greg Morris, American actor (1996) | |
| Mark Priestley, Australian actor (2008) |
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