Monday,  August 27, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 043 • 32 of 34 •  Other Editions

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• The questions that came up after all these losses: Did nerves get to her? Quite a strange thing to ask given the setting and the opponent for her first Grand Slam final victory last year.
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Today in History
The Associated Press

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• Today is Monday, Aug. 27, the 240th day of 2012. There are 126 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Aug. 27, 1962, the United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus in December 1962.
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• On this date:
• In 1770, German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (HAY'-guhl) was born in Stuttgart.
• In 1776, the Battle of Long Island began during the Revolutionary War as British troops attacked American forces, who ended up being forced to retreat two days later.
• In 1859, Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the United States, at

Titusville, Pa.
• In 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa blew up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia's Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra.
• In 1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was born near Stonewall, Texas.
• In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
• In 1939, the first turbojet-powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, went on its first full-fledged test flight over Germany.
• In 1942, the Times of London published an editorial calling on the British government to promote the production of penicillin, the first mention of the antibiotic by a newspaper.
• In 1957, the USS Swordfish, the second Skate Class nuclear submarine, was launched from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.
• In 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London

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