Wednesday, August 27, 1997
Today's events
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The annual Venice Film Festival opens in Italy.
International symposium on Women in History of Latin America
is scheduled to be held at the Ricardo Palma Cultural Center
in Lima.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to
begin an official two-day visit to South Korea.
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On the horizon
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On Thursday, August 28, Mafest 97, an international film
festival of tourism, ecology and sports opens in Palic,
Serbia with 65 films from 28 countries.
On Friday, August 29, the "Air-guitar" world championships
take place in Oulu, Finland.
On Saturday, August 30, Bonhams is scheduled to hold an
auction
of Elvis Presley memorabilia to mark the 20th anniversary of
his death. The action includes two stage suits expected to
fetch $150,000.
On Sunday, August 31, Jerry Lewis is scheduled to hold the
annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon.
On Monday, September 1, is the scheduled start of the
Beijing-Paris Motor Challenge.
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On this day
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In 55BC, ten thousand men of the 7th and 10th Roman legions
under Julius Caesar landed in Deal in England.
In 1626, in the Thirty Years War, a force of Imperialists
under Count Tilly heavily defeated a force of Germans and
Danes
under Christian IV at the battle of Lutter am Barenberge in
Germany.
In 1813, Napoleon with a force of 130,000 defeated a superior
allied force of 200,000 Austrians, Russians and Prussians at
the
battle of Dresden.
In 1828, Uruguay formally became a sovereign nation under the
Treaty of Rio de Janeiro which ended the war between Brazil
and
Argentina.
In 1859, the first commercially productive oil well was
drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake of
Seneca
Oil.
In 1916, Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary and Italy
declared war on Germany.
In 1919, Louis Botha, South African Boer general, statesman
and first prime minister of the Union in 1910, died aged 56.
In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand pact was signed in Paris. The
pact, named after U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and
French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, sought to outlaw war
as
an instrument of national policy.
In 1936, Egypt and Britain signed a treaty providing for
withdrawal of British forces except in the Suez Canal area.
In 1939, the world's first jet-propelled airplane, the
Heinkel He 178, made its first flight at Marienehe, north
Germany.
In 1941, in World War II, the Iranian government resigned
just
two days after British and Russian troops entered the
country.
In 1946, France and Laos concluded an agreement establishing
a
kingdom under French domination.
In 1962, the U.S. spacecraft Mariner II was launched towards
Venus.
In 1979, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma,
was
killed when a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army
destroyed his boat off Mullaghmore, County Sligo. He was 79.
In 1990, the United States expelled 36 out of 55 embassy
staff
at Iraq's Washington embassy.
In 1991, Moldova declared independence from the Soviet Union.
In 1992, an international conference on former Yugoslavia
ended in London with Bosnian Serb agreement to give up
control
of their heavy weapons.
In 1995, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization
signed an agreement in Cairo to expand Palestinian autonomy
from
Gaza to the West Bank.
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Holidays and more
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Today is Independence Day in Moldova.
It's National Heroes Day in the Philippines.
Actress Sarah Chalke is 21.
Musician Daryl Dragon is 55.
Mother Teresa is 87.
Actor Paul Rubens is 45.
Singer Tommy Sands is 60.
Actress Tuesday Weld is 54.
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Sources: Associated Press,
Chase's Calendar of Events 1997, J.P. Morgan
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