27 August

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 27 August:

1. On this date in 1930, H. L. Mencken married Sara Powell Haardt. They first met in Towson, Maryland, where he was delivering a lecture on "How to Catch a Husband." She was obviously listening carefully.
2. This date has been a significant one for radio stations. In 1920, Radio Argentina began regular transmissions from the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires, the world's first public broadcast station. In 1990, the British Broadcasting Corporation launched BBC Radio Five Live at 9am GMT.
3. In 1912, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice-Burroughs was first published. It tells the story of John Clayton, a child who loses his aristocratic parents in Africa and is raised by an ape.
4. This date has also been a significant one for the red planet. In 2003, Mars made its closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years, passing approximately 55,758,006 km (34,646,416 miles) from Earth. In 2012, the Mars Rover Curiosity broadcast the first audio recording of a human voice from the surface of another planet. The message from NASA administrator Charles Bolden was beamed to Earth along with new images of the Martian surface.
5. In 1982, chef Glynn Christian presented to the world the largest apple-pie ever baked, in a 40'x23' dish. He'd used 600 bushels of Apples, and the pie weighed 30,115lb.
6. In 1992, a man arrived at his weekend home near Arkhangelsk on the White Sea to find the entire house, storage buildings, and fences had all been stolen. The thieves had not touched his vegetable garden, however.
7. In 1997, the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists came up with a name for the space between a woman’s breasts – the intermammary sulcus.
8. Guinness Book of World Records was first published on this date in 1955. It sold more than 70 million copies, more than any other book but the Bible.
9. In 1975, Veronica and Colin Scargill completed a tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world.
10. GCSE results came out on this date in 1998. Among them was a C grade pass for Krishan Radia in Information Systems. Krishan was just 6 years old, the youngest person ever to pass a GCSE.

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