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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