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August 27th, 2006	Event	Comair Flight 5191 crashed en route from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard the flight were confirmed dead in the hours following the crash
August 27th, 2003	Event	Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
August 27th, 2000	Event	Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
August 27th, 1993	Event	The Florida Department of Transportation decides to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it can make use of Federal funds for those signs.
August 27th, 1993	Event	The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
August 27th, 1991	Event	The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
August 27th, 1991	Event	Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
August 27th, 1990	Event	The British Broadcasting Corporation launches BBC Radio Five Live at 9am GMT with a mixture of sports, news, and children s programming.
August 27th, 1985	Event	The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
August 27th, 1979	Event	An IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Irelandied in Another near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers.

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