Krakatoa Archives - Yellow Advertiser

2013: Miley Cyrus shocks at the MTV VMAs

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – August 27

27/08/202126/08/2021 YA Reporter August 27, BBC, Brian Epstein, Cuba, First World War, Haile Selassie, Krakatoa, Lennon, Lord Mountbatten, Miley Cyrus, Moldavia, Napoleon, news, Obama, Olympics, Rohingya, Second World War, Spanish flu, Today in history, Zanzibar, Zatopek

1549: John Dudley Earl of Warwick destroys Robert Kett’s army at the Battle of Dussindale, ending Kett’s rebellion in Norfolk.

1979: Lord Mountbatten is killed by the IRA

It happened today – this day in history – August 27

27/08/202026/08/2020 Mick Ferris Angelina Jolie, August 27, Barack Obama, Beatles, Brian Epstein, Ebola, Elvis, Guinness, Haile Selassie, history, Krakatoa, Miley Cyrus, Moldavia, Mountbatten, Myammar, Napoleon, Olympics, Spanish flu, Zanzibar

1549: John Dudley Earl of Warwick destroys Robert Kett’s army at the Battle of Dussindale, ending Kett’s rebellion in Norfolk.

1967: Brian Epstein found dead at his home in Belgravia. Photo courtesy Dutch National Archive

It happened today – this day in history – August 27

27/08/201911/09/2019 Press Association Aigist 27, Epstein, history, Krakatoa, Mountbatten, nostaligia, Selassie, Tarzan, yellow advertiser

1859: The world’s first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake. 1883: Krakatoa, a volcanic island in