On This Day – Pee-wee is 63

ON THIS DAY - August 27th:

1883 - Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people
2001 - Angelina Jolie is named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, Stonewall Texas, (D) 36th US President (1963-1969), (d. 1973)
1947 - Barbara Bach [Goldbach], Queens, New York, American actress (The Spy Who Loved Me, Force 10 from Navarone)
1952 - Pee-wee Herman, [Paul Reubens], NY, actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)

2005 - Actor Robert Downey Jr (40) weds producer Susan Levin (31) at the Windy Dune Estat in Amagansett, New York

GOODBYE TO:

1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, US photographer, dies at 67
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35
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