{"id":4223,"date":"2026-08-27T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2026-08-27T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:03:55","slug":"today-in-history-august-27-barack-obama-becomes-first-black-presidential-nominee-by-a-major-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4223","title":{"rendered":"Today in History: August 27, Barack Obama becomes first Black presidential nominee by a major political party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Today is Thursday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2026. There are 126 days left in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4221\">A judge suspends charges against an ex-Marine arrested on Trump\u2019s golf course with ammunition<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Today in history:<\/h4>\n<p>On Aug. 27, 2008, Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver, becoming the first Black presidential nominee from a major political party.<\/p>\n<h4>Also on this date:<\/h4>\n<p>In 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions. The explosions (which could be heard 3,000 miles away) and resulting tsunamis in Indonesia\u2019s Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra.<\/p>\n<p>In 1894, Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which contained a provision for a graduated income tax that was later struck down by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>In 1964, the film \u201cMary Poppins\u201d had its world premiere in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n<p>In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, were killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982, Rickey Henderson of the Oakland A\u2019s stole his 119th base of the season, breaking Lou Brock\u2019s single-season stolen base record. (Henderson would finish the season with a still-unmatched 130 stolen bases.)<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4219\">Summit County sheriff pauses Flock Safety cameras for 30 days<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1990, blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughn and four others were killed in a helicopter crash near East Troy, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2001, Israeli helicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows in the West Bank city of Ramallah, killing senior PLO leader Mustafa Zibri.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, coastal residents jammed freeways and gas stations as they rushed to avoid Hurricane Katrina, which was headed toward New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Hurricane Irene made landfall in the United States; the storm would be responsible for 49 total deaths and more than $14 billion in damage.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, a shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis and struck some of the nearly 200 children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two children and wounding 17 people. The attacker shot dozens of rounds toward the children seated in pews at the Annunciation Catholic School; police said he later died by suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4217\">Denver Broncos fans, meet your meaty new game-day bite: the 2-foot-long \u2018Beast in a Blanket\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Author William Least Heat-Moon is 87.<\/li>\n<li>Actor Tuesday Weld is 83.<\/li>\n<li>Actor G.W. 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