What day of the week was August 27, 1896?

The day of the week August 27th, 1896 fell on was a Thursday.

Kenji Miyazawa the Japanese author and poet (d. 1933) was born on 27 August in 1896. As was Faina Ranevskaya the Russian actress (d. 1984) , Léon Theremin the Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (d. 1993) .

Anglo- Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) the between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.