1859年8月27日
Edwin Drake
Edwin Drake struck oil at 69 feet near Titusville, Pennsylvania--the world's first successful oil well. This source of crude oil, or petroleum, opened up a new inexpensive source of power and quickly replaced whale oil in lamps. Within a few decades of Drake's discovery, oil drilling was widespread in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the East Indies. However, it was the development of the automobile that catapulted petroleum into a position of paramount importance, for petroleum is the primary source of gasoline.
1894年8月27日
Today marks the anniversary of the passage of the first graduated income tax law. The tax was nestled into the Wilson-Gormann Tariff, a major piece of trade legislation passed by Congress on this day. However, both the income tax and the tariff had their high-powered critics President Grover Cleveland refused to sign the bill on the grounds the tariff provisions were too protectionist. Meanwhile, the tax law became mired in legal wrangles. The Supreme Court effectively squashed it in the ruling on Pollock vs. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company. The Court interpreted the income tax as a direct tax which, according to the Constitution, isn't within the federal government's legislative powers. The Wilson-Gormann Tariff only served to put the income tax on the legislative map. With the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, the tax made its way into America's law and pocketbooks.
2001年8月27日 第三次遭遇黑色星期一,股指创年内新低
8月27日沪深股市五周以来第三次遭遇黑色星期一，股指双双大幅破位下滑，上证指数下跌59.55点，收于1827.25点，跌幅3.16%，深综指下跌18.7点，收于547.26点，跌幅 3.33%，分别创出年内新低。
