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August 27
Two important birthdays today:
1770 -- German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel born in Stuttgart.
1908 -- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th US President, born near Stonewall, Texas
Also on this date:
1883 -- Krakatoa, the island volcano, blows its top, resulting in tsunamis in the Sunda Strait, claiming some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra