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This is a list of selected August 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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1689 – The Tsardom of Russia and Qing China signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk, the first treaty between the two nations. unreferenced sections
1776Maryland 400: Members of the 1st Maryland Regiment repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force during the Battle of Long Island, allowing General Washington and the rest of the American troops to escape — this action is commemorated in Maryland's nickname, the "Old Line State." Referencing issues
1859Edwin Drake successfully drilled for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, resulting in the Pennsylvania oil rush, the first oil boom in the United States. refimprove section
1893 – The Sea Islands hurricane made landfall near Savannah, Georgia, U.S., causing at least 1,000 deaths. refimprove
1918Border War: United States Army troops engaged the Carrancistas garrison in the Battle of Ambos Nogales; because the latter had the assistance of German military advisers, it was also the only battle of World War I fought on U.S. soil. refimprove section
1922Turkish forces re-captured Afyon, the first victory of their counterattack during the Greco-Turkish War. Battle: refimprove section; War: unreferenced section
1927Five Canadian women filed a petition to ask the Supreme Court of Canada the question "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?", to which the court eventually replied in the negative. tagged for tone and page numbers needed
1939 – Flown by German test pilot Erich Warsitz, experimental jet plane Heinkel He 178 became the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power. refimprove section
1942 – Nazi troops and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police began systematically executing more than 14,000 people, mostly Jews, in and around Sarny in occupied Poland. Only one paragraph about actual event
1957 – The Constitution of Malaya came into force, three days before the Federation of Malaya achieved formal independence from the United Kingdom. unreferenced sections
1985 – The Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari was overthrown by Ibrahim Babangida. unreferenced section; Buhari appears on December 31
1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Moldova declared its independence during the aftermath of the failure of the Soviet coup d'état attempt. too detailed
2000 – Moscow's Ostankino Tower caught fire, killing four people and disrupting television and radio signals around the city. unreferenced section
2003 – The first round of six-party talks to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program opened. needs more footnotes
2003 – The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in almost 60,000 years. An edit in December 2023 removed that fact from the article.
2013Religious violence between Hindus and Muslims erupted in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India, leaving 62 people dead. outdated
Shi Jianqiao |d|1979 Death date not cited

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August 27: Independence Day in Moldova (1991)

Destroyed buildings after the attack in the Anglo-Zanzibar War
Destroyed buildings after the attack in the Anglo-Zanzibar War
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