CNN Interactive - Almanac - August 27, 1998

The Smithsonian is scheduled to unveil Minerva, an intelligent mobile robot that will give tours at the National Museum of American History in Washington.
Actor James Brolin, recently wed to Barbra Streisand, is scheduled to get his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

On Friday, August 28, a hearing is scheduled in Chicago for two boys, ages 7 and 8, accused in the murder of an 11-year-old girl.
On Saturday, August 29, the 30-day cooling-off period imposed by U.S. National Mediation Board on pilots for Northwest Airlines expires at 12:01 a.m. EDT.
On Sunday, August 30, U.S. President Bill Clinton is scheduled to return from his vacation in Martha's Vineyard.
On Monday, August 31, the world remembers the anniversary of Princess Diana's death one year ago in a Paris car crash.
On Tuesday, September 1, U.S. President Bill Clinton is scheduled to visit Russia for a summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

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In 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa blew up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia's Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra.
In 1892, fire seriously damaged New York's original Metropolitan Opera House, located at Broadway and 39th Street.
In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
In 1945, American troops began landing in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.
In 1962, the United States launched the "Mariner Two" space probe, which flew past Venus the following December.
In 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.
In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army.
In 1998, tens of thousands of civil rights marchers gathered in Washington D.C. on the eve of the 25th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
In 1992, the UN Security Council suspended two-and-a-half-month-old economic sanctions against Haiti to spur the country's return to democracy.
In 1997, former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy was charged with seeking and accepting more than $35,000 in trips, sports tickets and favors from companies that did business with his agency.
In 1997, Israel lifted a month-long blockade of Bethlehem that was imposed after a suicide bombing July 30th that killed 16 people.