This happened today, August 27…
1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted by the French National Assembly.
1965 – Elvis Presley played host to the Beatles at his home in Bel-Air, CA.
1976 – Sarah Chalke was born.
1985 – The Space Shuttle Discovery left for a seven-day mission in which three satellites were launched and another was repaired and redeployed.
1998 – “Titanic” became the first movie in North America to earn more than $600 million.