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This Date in History (Aug. 27)
1962 – The United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus the following December.
2001 – Israeli helicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows in the West Bank town of Ramallah and killed senior PLO leader Mustafa Zibri.
2003 – A granite monument of the Ten Commandments that became a lightning rod in a legal storm over church and state was wheeled from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery.
2007 – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation after a controversy over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys.