Talk:August 27

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August 27: Independence Day in Moldova (1991) Destroyed buildings after the attack in the Anglo-Zanzibar War 410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ended after three days. 1896 – In the shortest recorded war in history (pictured), the Sultanate of Zanzibar surrendered to the United Kingdom after less than an hour of conflict. 1955 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published. 1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh entered into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, both of whom had been involved in plots to unseat Khánh. 2009 – The Myanmar military junta and ethnic armies began three days of violent clashes in the region of Kokang. Henry Edwards (b. 1827) Rufus Wilmot Griswold (d. 1857) Don Bradman (b. 1908) Ieva Simonaitytė (d. 1978) More anniversaries: August 26 August 27 August 28

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Caesar in Britain

Was the Roman Invasion at August 26 or August 27?? --195.93.60.135 17:10, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Bloody-minded linking

A classic example of a very common problem found in 'on this day' pages:

1969 - Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.

The words 'Israeli', 'commando', 'Egyptian', 'mortar attack', 'Egyptian Army', 'Nile Valley' and 'Upper Egypt' are all linked, to 'Israel', 'Commando', 'Egypt', 'Mortar (weapon)', 'Egyptian Army', 'Nile' and 'Upper Egypt' respectively. It is abundantly linked, but not to anything that is to the point. Anyone know if there's a page on this? It's not mentioned under War of Attrition GoldenRing (talk) 14:35, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

 Removed If you find more of these, just remove them. No need to discuss it as the requirements are clear in WP:DAYS. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 14:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Please stop commercial vandalization

Yesterday I checked the list of people birthdays deserving the home page for notice. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was in the list, during the night the reference was changed to Beatles manager. Does the music industry have right of advertising on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.163.89.132 (talk) 09:23, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Battle of Long Island

Can someone please rationalise/merge/delete or otherwise edit the two entries for this event in 1776? Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 06:40, 16 March 2022 (UTC)