Daily Almanac: Aug. 27, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:07 a.m.

SET: 8:23 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 Heinkel He 178, world’s first jet aircraft.

• 1955 First edition of the Guinness Book of Records published in Great Britain

• 2003 Mars makes closest approach closest Earth since 57,617 BC

Births On This Day:

• 1908 Lyndon Johnson

36th President of the US

• 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