MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012

Today is Monday, August 27, the 240th day of 2012. There are 126 days left in the year.

26 B.C. ― Origin of Egyptian Era

1783 ― First hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900-meter altitude

1789 ― French National Assembly issues ``Declaration of the Rights of Man & the Citizen"

1859 ― First successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn.

1896 ― Zanzibar loses to England in a 38-minute war (9:02 -9:40 a.m.)

1912 ― Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan

1913 ― Lt. Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (first aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)

1975 ― Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world

1978 ― Reds Joe Morgan is first to hit 200 homeruns and have 500 stolen bases

1990 ― WWF Summer Slam; Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude