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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)

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