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Instructions:
1. Type your birthday (minus the year) in the Wikipedia search bar.
2. List three historical events, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.

August 27th

Events:
1859 - Petroleum discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania. World's first successful oil well.

1883 - Krakatoa, an Indonesian volcano, erupts. It is one of the most violent volcanic events in modern times.

1896 - Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (9:02 to 9:40) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

Births:

1910 - Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1997)

1958 - Stalking Cat, American body modificationist ( xD )

Deaths:
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)