Today is the 27th of August. On this day in history, nothing of importance ever happened.

On August 27, nobody of major importance either died or was born. There was no political turmoil, or elder statesman speech. No major tornado, earthquake, fire, or natural disaster of any kind took place.

Some people say throughout the ages, 8/27 is the least important day of the year. FakeToday spoke to Richard Harr of the University of Chicago.

"Nothing ever happened. We compared statistical data fom 1920-2000, and there was not a single record marked as even mildly interesting. Most history books just skip the 27th to begin with. If not, we found these pages of library books missing as people build paper balls out of them."

Dr. Harr is quite certain this year, nothing important will happen either. "You see so much data pointing in one direction, and it's just highly unlikely something will happen today. It would come as a major surprise if there would be."

So wasn't there anything at all noteworthy about this date?

"Truth be told we found a single incident that made one of us raise eyebrows. Emil Zatopek won the 12th Olympics marathon at just above 2 hours 23 minutes on this day in 1952, though that was anything but spectacular. Then, my colleague thought Shania Twain was born this day... turns out that was the 28th. So no, pretty much nothing at all happened."

By FakeToday correspondent Philipp Lenssen (8/27/2004).