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On Aug. 27, 1770, German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart, Germany.
In 1789 the French National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
In 1963 sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois died in Accra, Ghana; he was 95.
In 1967 Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.
In 1975 Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia’s 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83, almost a year after being overthrown.
In 1990 rock and blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, 35, and four other people were killed when a helicopter ferrying the group crashed near East Troy, Wis.
