Daily Almanac: Aug. 27, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:10 a.m.     

SET: 8:26 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

High: 87 °F

Low: 66 °F

Today is…:

• Just Because Day

• National Petroleum Day

• Pony Express Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1939 First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft.

• 1955 The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain

• 2003 Mars approaches closest to the Earth since 57,617 BC

Births On This Day:

• 1908 Lyndon B. Johnson

36th President of the United States

• 1979 Aaron Paul

American actor, producer

Deaths On This Day:

• 1963 W. E. B. Du Bois

American sociologist, historian, activist

• 1979 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

British statesman, naval officer