AP Highlight in History: On Aug. 27, 1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was born near Stonewall, Texas.
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1770
German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart.
1859
Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful U.S. oil well near Titusville, Pa.
1883
The island volcano Krakatoa erupted; the resulting tidal waves claimed some 36,000 lives on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.
1892
Fire seriously damaged New York City's original Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street.
1928
The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
1945
American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.
1962
The United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus the following December.
1967
The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, was found dead from an overdose of sleeping pills.
1975
Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa almost a year after being overthrown.
1979
British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion; the Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility.
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2001
Israeli helicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows in the West Bank town of Ramallah and killed senior PLO leader Mustafa Zibri.
2003
A granite monument of the Ten Commandments that became a lightning rod in a legal storm over church and state was wheeled from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery.
2007
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation after a controversy over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys.
2007
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty in Richmond, Va., to a federal dogfighting charge.
2007
The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call reported that Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, was arrested June 11 by a plainclothes officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in a Minneapolis airport restroom.
Actress Chandra Wilson ("Grey's Anatomy") turns 39 years old today.
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Name
Profession
Age
Jimmy C. Newman
Country singer
81
J.D. Crowe
Bluegrass singer, musician
71
Tommy Sands
Actor
71
Daryl Dragon
Musician (The Captain and Tennille)
66
Bob Kerrey
Former U.S. senator, D-Neb.
65
Tuesday Weld
Actress
65
Tim Bogert
Rock singer, musician (Vanilla Fudge)
64
Marianne Sagebrecht
Actress
63
Barbara Bach
Actress
61
Jeff Cook
Country musician (Alabama)
59
Paul Reubens
Actor ("Pee-Wee's Playhouse")
56
Willy DeVille
Rock singer
55
Alex Lifeson
Rock musician (Rush)
55
Diana Scarwid
Actress
53
Glen Matlock
Rock musician (The Sex Pistols)
52
Jeffrey Steele
Country singer
47
Yolanda Adams
Gospel singer
46
Matthew Basford
Country musician (Yankee Grey)
46
Dean Devlin
Writer, producer
46
Mike Johnson
Rock musician
43
Bobo
Rap musician (Cypress Hill)
40
Tony Kanal
Rock musician (No Doubt)
38
Jim Thome
Baseball player
38
Sarah Chalke
Actress ("Scrubs")
32
Carlos Moya
Tennis player
32
Mase
Rapper
31
Jon Siebels
Rock musician (Eve 6)
29
Mario
R&B singer
22
Alexa Vega
Actress ("Spy Kids" films)
20
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