Today is Friday, August 27, the 239th day of 2010. 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 and the Citizen"
1859 ― First successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn.
1896 ― Zanzibar loses to England in a 38-minute war (9:02 a.m.- 9:40 a.m.)
1913 ― Lt. Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (first aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1945 ― U.S. troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1961 ― Francis the Talking Mule is the mystery guest on ``What's My Line"
1966 ― Francis Chichester begins the first solo sail around the world
1990 ― WWF Summer Slam ― Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude