Todayis Tuesday, August 27, the 239th day of 2002. There are 126 days left in the year.

On this date

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 the age of 83 almost a year after being overthrown.

In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion. The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility.

Thought for the Day

<*“What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business — except the journalist’s.” — Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher (1847-1911).