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August 27th is the 239th day of the year (240th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.  There are 126 days remaining
until the end of the calendar year.  August 27th is Lyndon Baines Johnson Day in the state of Texas.

Births
1809
- Hannibal Hamlin, 15th U.S. Vice President
1865 - Charles G. Dawes, 30th U.S Vice President
1871 - Theodore Dreiser, novelist, journalist
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. President
1929 - Ira Levin, author, dramatist, songwriter (Rosemary's Baby)
1937 - Alice Coltrane, jazz pianist, composer
1952 - Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reuben, television personality
1969 - Christine O'Donnell, politician, Tea Party member
1988 - Alexa Vega, actress, singer (Spy Kids)

Deaths
1948
- Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Chief Justice, U.S. Secretary of State
1963 - W. E. B. Du Bois, civil rights activist, sociologist, historian, author
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, guitarist (The Sky Is Crying)

Events
1859
- Edwin L. Drake drills the world's first commercially successful oil well near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
1962 - The Mariner 2 space probe is launched by NASA, which would fly past Venus the following December.
1965 - The Beatles and Elvis Presley meet for the first time and have an impromptu jam session.
2003 - Mars passes the closest to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, coming within 34,646,418 miles.
2006 - Comair Flight 5191, bound for Atlanta, Georgia, crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky.  
Of the 47 passengers and 3 crew members, there was only 1 survivor.
Calendar
January
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15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
February
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8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29
March
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
April
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
May
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
June
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
July
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
August
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
September
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
October
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
November
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
December
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
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