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Today is Saturday, Dec. 27, the 362nd day of 2008 with four to follow.
| December 27, 2008 12:01:13 AM IST
The moon is new. The morning stars are Saturn and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. They include German astronomer Johannes Kepler in 1571; English engineer George Cayley, father of the science of aerodynamics, in 1773; French bacteriologist Louis Pasteur in 1822; actor Sydney Greenstreet in 1879; actress Marlene Dietrich in 1901; news correspondent Cokie Roberts in 1943 (age 65); French actor Gerard Depardieu in 1948 (age 60); and former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon in 1951 (age 57). (UPI)
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