Today In History
Today is Thursday, Aug. 27, the 240th day of 2020. There are 126 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 2008: Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
ON THIS DATE
› 1858: The second debate between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas took place in Freeport, Illinois.
› 1949: A violent white mob prevented an outdoor concert headlined by Paul Robeson from taking place near Peekskill, New York. (The concert was held eight days later.)
› 1989: The first U.S. commercial satellite rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida — a Delta booster carrying a British communications satellite, the Marcopolo 1.
› 2005: Coastal residents jammed freeways and gas stations as they rushed to get out of the way of Hurricane Katrina, which was headed toward New Orleans.
› 2009: Jaycee Lee Dugard, kidnapped when she was 11, was reunited with her mother 18 years after her abduction in South Lake
Tahoe, California.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Author Lady Antonia Fraser is 88. Actor Tommy Sands is 83. Bluegrass singer-musician J.D. Crowe is 83. Actor Tuesday Weld is 77. Actor G.W. Bailey is 76. Rock singer-musician Tim Bogert is 76. Actor Peter Stormare is 67. Actor Diana Scarwid is 65. Rock musician Glen Matlock (The Sex Pistols) is 64. Golfer Bernhard Langer is 63. Country singer Jeffrey Steele is 59. Gospel singer Yolanda Adams is
59. Movie director Tom Ford (Film: “Nocturnal Animals”) is 59. Country musician Matthew Basford (Yankee Grey) is 58. Writer-producer Dean Devlin is 58. Rock musician Mike Johnson is 55. Rap musician Bobo (Cypress Hill) is 53. Country singer Colt Ford is 51. Actor Chandra Wilson is 51. Rock musician Tony Kanal (No Doubt) is 50. Actor Sarah Chalke is 44. Rapper Mase is 43. Actor Shaun Weiss is 41. Contemporary Christian musician Megan Garrett (Casting Crowns) is 40. Actor Kyle Lowder is 40. Actor Patrick J. Adams is
39. Actor Karla Mosley is
39. Actor Amanda Fuller is 36. Singer Mario is 34. Actor Alexa PenaVega is
32. Actor Ellar Coltrane is
26. Actor Savannah Paige Rae is 17.