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- 1910
- Under the Japan–Korea Treaty, Japan annexes the Korean Empire.
- 1975
- The Arthur Laing Bridge opens in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1991
- Kishinev is renamed Chișinău.
- 1999
- The Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum is dismantled on Prince Alexander of Battenberg Square in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 2019
- In Detroit, Michigan, Cobo Center is renamed TCF Center, and the Detroit People Mover's station there is renamed Convention Center.
- 2020
- Crime Ring Kustoms closes in Wyandotte, Michigan, after two years in business after its owner is charged with receiving and concealing stolen property.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on August 27, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on August 27 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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