Today in History
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2003 Mars approaches closest to the Earth since 57,617 BC
The next time the two planets will be this close will be in 2287.
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2003 World’s Biggest Battery is Plugged in
The battery, which takes up about 2,000 square metres of space and weighs about 1,300 tonnes is set
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1991 Moldova gains its Independence
The Eastern European country was part of the Soviet Union since August 2, 1940, from parts of Romani
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1985 Military coup in Nigeria
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida took over the government after overthrowing Muhammadu Buhari in
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1962 NASA Launches Mariner 2
Part of NASA’s Mariner program, the unmanned space probe was the first man-made object to flyby anot
Births On This Day,
August, 27
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1976 Mark Webber
Australian race car driver
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1952 Paul Reubens
American actor
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1908 Donald Bradman
Australian cricketer
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1908 Lyndon B. Johnson
American politician, 36th President of the United States
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1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
Deaths On This Day,
August, 27
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1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
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1979 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
British statesman, naval officer
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1975 Haile Selassie I
Ethiopian Emperor
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1967 Brian Epstein
English talent manager
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1963 W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian, activist
