On this day in history
August 27
EgyptianHinduScience
- 1865 CEEgyptian · born
James Henry Breasted, the American Egyptologist who compiled Ancient Records of Egypt and founded the Oriental Institute at Chicago, was born in 1865.
- 1931 CEHindu · born
Sri Chinmoy, the meditation teacher who taught in the United States from 1964, was born in East Bengal on 27 August 1931.
- 1982 CEHindu · died
The saint and teacher Anandamayi Ma died in Dehradun on 27 August 1982.
- 1962 CEScience
NASA launched Mariner 2, which four months later became the first spacecraft to return data from a close pass of another planet, sweeping past Venus.