- February 27
Events
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1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French fromScotland , is signed byEngland and the Congregation ofScotland .
*1594 - Henry IV is crowned King ofFrance .
*1617 -Sweden andRussia sign theTreaty of Stolbovo , ending theIngrian War and shuttingRussia out of theBaltic Sea .
*1626 -Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians underNurhaci .
*1700 - The island ofNew Britain is discovered.
*1801 -Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. "SeeDistrict of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 "
*1812 - Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of theHouse of Lords , in defense ofLuddite violence againstIndustrialism in his home county ofNottinghamshire .
*1844 - TheDominican Republic gains independence fromHaiti .
*1860 -Abraham Lincoln makes a speech atCooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
*1861 - A crowd inWarsaw protesting againstRussia n rule overPoland is fired upon by Russian troops, killing five protesters.
*1864 -American Civil War : The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison atAndersonville, Georgia .
*1900 -Second Boer War : InSouth Africa , British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender fromBoer General Piet Cronje at theBattle of Paardeberg .
* 1900 - The British Labour Party is founded.
*1921 - TheInternational Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded inVienna .
*1922 - A challenge to theNineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , allowing women the right tovote , is rebuffed by theSupreme Court of the United States inLeser v. Garnett .
*1933 -Reichstag fire :Germany 's parliament building inBerlin , the Reichstag, is set on fire.
*1939 - American Civil Rights Movement: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by theSupreme Court of the United States .
*1940 -Martin Kamen andSam Ruben discovercarbon-14
*1942 -World War II : During theBattle of the Java Sea , an allied (ABDA ) strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in theJava Sea in theDutch East Indies
*1943 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek,Montana , explodes, killing 74 men.
* 1943 - TheRosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
*1945 -Lebanon declares Independence.
*1951 - TheTwenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution , limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
*1961 - The first congress of theSpanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
*1963 - TheDominican Republic receives its first democratically electedpresident ,Juan Bosch , since the end of the dictatorship led byRafael Trujillo .
*1964 - The government ofItaly asks for help to keep theLeaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
*1967 -Dominica gains independence from theUnited Kingdom .
*1971 - Doctors in the first Dutchabortion clinic (the Mildredhuis inArnhem ) start to perform aborti provocati.
*1973 - TheAmerican Indian Movement occupiesWounded Knee, South Dakota .
*1974 - Peoplemagazine is published for the first time.
*1976 - The formerly Spanish territory ofWestern Sahara , under the auspices of thePolisario Front declares independence as theSahrawi Arab Democratic Republic .
*1986 - TheUnited States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
*1989 -Venezuela is rocked by the riots ofCaracazo .
*1991 -Gulf War :U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
*1999 -Olusegun Obasanjo becomesNigeria 's first elected president since mid-1983 .
* 1999 -Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently directed by Ann Clapper.
*2002 -Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire inLondon Stansted Airport . Subsequent investigations criticizeRyanair 's handling of the evacuation.
* 2002 -Godhra train burning , aMuslim mob kills 59Hindu pilgrims returning fromAyodhya ;
*2003 -Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104thArchbishop of Canterbury in theAnglican church.
*2004 - A bombing of a Superferry byAbu Sayyaf in thePhilippines worst terrorist attack kills 116.
* 2004 - Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party inBarbuda ,Barbudans for a Better Barbuda .
*2007 - The general strike againstLansana Conté inGuinea ends.
* 2007 -The Chinese Correction : theShanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.Births
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272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d.337 )
*1691 -Edward Cave , English editor and publisher (d.1754 )
*1711 -Constantine Mavrocordatos , Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d.1769 )
*1779 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d.1842 )
*1807 -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , American poet (d.1882 )
*1831 -Hiram Bond Everest , American cofounder of TheVacuum Oil Company (d.1913 )
*1862 -Anastasios Metaxas , Greek architect and shooter (d.1937 )
*1877 -Walter Briggs, Sr. , American entrepreneur and sports team owner (d.1952 )
*1878 -Alvan T. Fuller , 50thGovernor of Massachusetts (d.1958 )
*1886 -Hugo Black , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d.1971 )
*1888 -Roberto Assagioli , Italian psychiatrist (d.1974 )
* 1888 -Earl Caddock , American professional wrestler (d.1950 )
* 1888 -Lotte Lehmann , German singer (d.1976 )
*1890 -Freddie Keppard , American jazz musician (d.1933 )
*1891 -David Sarnoff , Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d.1971 )
* 1891 -Anne Samson , oldest-ever nun documented (d.2004 )
*1892 -William Demarest , American actor (d.1983 )
*1897 -Marian Anderson , American contralto (d.1993 )
*1899 -Charles Best , Canadian medical scientist (d.1978 )
*1902 -Gene Sarazen , American golfer (d.1999 )
* 1902 -John Steinbeck , American writer, Nobel laureate (d.1968 )
*1903 -Grethe Weiser , German actress (d.1970 )
*1904 -James T. Farrell , American writer (d.1979 )
* 1904 -Yulii Borisovich Khariton , Russian physicist (d.1996 )
* 1904 -André Leducq , French cyclist (d.1980 )
* 1904 -Chick Fullis , American baseball player (d.1946 )
*1905 -Franchot Tone , American actor (d.1968 )
*1907 -Mildred Bailey , American singer (d.1951 )
*1910 -Joan Bennett , American actress (d.1990 )
* 1910 -Peter De Vries , American writer (d.1993 )
* 1910 -Ted Horn , American race car driver (d.1948 )
* 1910 - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works ; d.1990 )
*1912 -Lawrence Durrell , British writer (d.1990 )
* 1912 -Kusumagraj , Indian writer (d.1999 )
*1913 -Irwin Shaw , American writer (d.1984 )
* 1913 -Kazimierz Sabbat , Polish president (d.1989 )
*1917 -John Connally , American politician (d.1993 )
*1922 -Hans Rookmaaker , Dutch professor and art historian (d.1977 )
*1923 -Dexter Gordon , American jazz saxophonist (d.1990 )
*1925 -Samuel Dash , American Congressional counsel (d.2004 )
*1926 -David H. Hubel , Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
*1927 -Lynn Cartwright , American actress (d.2004 )
* 1927 -Guy Mitchell , American singer (d.1999 )
*1928 -Ariel Sharon , former Prime Minister of Israel
*1929 -Djalma Santos , Brazilian footballer
* 1929 - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d.2008 )
*1930 - Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
* 1930 -Peter Stone , American writer (d.2003 )
* 1930 -Joanne Woodward , American actress
*1932 -Elizabeth Taylor , British-American actress
*1933 -Raymond Berry , American football player
*1934 -Vincent Fourcade , French interior designer (d.1992 )
* 1934 -N. Scott Momaday , American writer
* 1934 -Ralph Nader , American consumer activist
* 1934 -Van Williams , American actor
*1935 -Mirella Freni , Italian soprano
*1936 -Ron Barassi , Australian rules footballer
* 1936 -Roger Mahony , fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles
*1937 -David Ackles , American singer songwriter (d.1999 )
* 1937 -Barbara Babcock , American actress
*1939 -Peter Revson , American racecar driver (d.1974 )
*1940 -Howard Hesseman , American actor
* 1940 - Bill Hunter, Australian actor
*1941 -Paddy Ashdown , British politician
*1942 -Robert H. Grubbs , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1942 -Charlayne Hunter-Gault , American journalist
* 1942 -Michel Forget , French Canadian actor
*1943 -Mary Frann , American actress (d.1998 )
* 1943 -Morten Lauridsen , American composer
*1944 -Ken Grimwood , American writer (d.2003 )
* 1944 -Roger Scruton , British philosopher
*1945 - Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d.2004 )
*1947 -Gidon Kremer , Latvian violinist
*1951 -Steve Harley , British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel)
*1952 -Stathis Psaltis , Greek actor
*1953 -Gabriela Svobodová , Czech cross country skier
*1954 -Neal Schon , American musician (Journey)
*1955 -Peter Christopherson , English musician and video director
*1957 -Viktor Markin , Russian athlete
* 1957 -Timothy Spall , English actor
* 1957 -Danny Antonucci , Canadian animator
* 1957 -Adrian Smith , English musician (Iron Maiden )
*1958 -Naas Botha , South African rugby union footballer
* 1958 -Nancy Spungen , American murder victim ofSid Vicious (d.1978 )
*1959 -Johnny Van Zant , American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd )
*1960 -Andrés Gómez , Ecuadorian tennis player
*1961 -James Worthy , American basketball player
*1962 -Adam Baldwin , American actor
* 1962 -Grant Show , American actor
*1963 -Pär Nuder , Swedish politician
*1964 -Todd Bodine , American race car driver
*1965 -Noah Emmerich , American actor
* 1965 -Frank Peter Zimmermann , German violinist
* 1965 -Joakim Sundström , Swedish sound editor and sound designer
*1966 -Donal Logue , Canadian actor
*1968 -Matt Stairs , Canadian baseball player
*1969 -Brad Vander Ark , American musician
*1970 -Michael A. Burstein , American writer
* 1970 -Kent Desormeaux , American jockey
* 1970 -Matthias Lechner , German art director
* 1970 -Patricia Petibon , French opera singer
*1971 -Derren Brown , British psychological illusionist
* 1971 - Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, American singer (TLC)
*1973 -Ali Tabatabaee , American Iranian rapper (Zebrahead )
* 1973 - Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby union footballer
* 1973 -Peter André , Australian singer - Husband toKatie Price , Glamour model
*1975 -Prodromos Korkizoglou , Greek decathlete
* 1975 -Shelby Walker , American mixed martial artist (d.2006 )
*1976 - Tony Gonzalez, American football player
*1977 -Lance Hoyt , American professional wrestler
* 1977 -Ji Sung , South Korean actor
* 1977 -James Wan , Australian film director
*1978 - James Beattie, English footballer
*1980 -Bobby Valentino , American singer
* 1980 -Chelsea Clinton , daughter of Bill andHillary Clinton
*1981 -Josh Groban , American singer
* 1981 -Elodie Ouédraogo , Belgian athlete
*1983 -Kate Mara , American actress
* 1983 -Hayley Angel Wardle , English actress
*1983 -Devin Harris , American basketball player
*1984 -David Noel , American basketball player
* 1984 -Antti Tuisku , Finnish singer
* 1984 -Lotta Schelin , Swedish female footballer
*1985 -Juliana Imai , Brazilian model
* 1985 -Diniyar Bilyaletdinov , Russian Footballer
*1989 -Kelly Breeding , American singer from B5
*1991 -Azeem Rafiq , Yorkshire CCC & English U15 captain
*1994 -Hou Yifan , Chinese chess playerDeaths
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1659 -Henry Dunster , first President of Harvard College (b.1609 )
*1699 -Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton , English politician (b. c.1625 )
*1706 -John Evelyn , English diarist (b.1620 )
*1720 -Samuel Parris , English-born Puritan minister (b.1653 )
*1735 -John Arbuthnot , English physician and writer (b.1667 )
*1844 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (b.1786 )
*1887 -Alexander Borodin , Russian composer and chemist (b.1833 )
*1892 -Louis Vuitton , French luggage maker (b.1821 )
*1902 -Harry 'Breaker' Morant , Anglo-Australian Soldier executed in theSecond Boer War under controversial circumstances (b.1864 )
* 1902 -Peter Handcock , Australian Soldier executed in theSecond Boer War under controversial circumstances
*1921 -Schofield Haigh , English cricketer (b.1871 )
*1932 -William Southam , Canadian newspaper publisher (b.1843 )
*1936 -Ivan Pavlov , Russian physiologist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.1849 )
* 1936 -Joshua W. Alexander , U.S. Secretary of Commerce underWoodrow Wilson (b.1852 )
*1941 -William D. Byron , U.S. Congressman (b.1895 )
*1943 -Kostis Palamas , Greek poet, twice nominated for theNobel prize (b.1859 )
*1964 -Orry-Kelly , Australian costume designer (b.1897 )
*1968 -Frankie Lymon , American singer (b.1942 )
*1969 -Marius Barbeau , French Canadian folklorist (b.1883 )
*1970 -Marie Dionne , one of the French CanadianDionne quintuplets (b.1934 )
*1972 -Pat Brady , American actor and singer (b.1914 )
*1977 -John Dickson Carr , American author (b.1905 )
*1978 -Vadim Salmanov , Russian composer (b.1912 )
*1980 -George Tobias , American actor (b.1901 )
*1981 -Jacob H. Gilbert , American politician (b.1920 )
*1985 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b.1902 )
*1986 -Jacques Plante , Canadian ice hockey player (b.1929 )
*1987 -Joan Greenwood , English actress and director (b.1921 )
*1989 -Paul Oswald Ahnert , German astronomer (b.1897 )
* 1989 -Konrad Lorenz , Austrian zoologist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.1903 )
*1990 -Nahum Norbert Glatzer , Jewish-American scholar (b.1903 )
*1992 -S. I. Hayakawa , Canadian-American linguist and politician (b.1906 )
*1993 -Lillian Gish , American actress (b.1893 )
*1998 -George H. Hitchings , American scientist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.1905 )
* 1998 -J. T. Walsh , American actor (b.1943 )
*2002 -Spike Milligan , Irish comedian (b.1918 )
*2003 -John Lanchbery , English composer (b.1923 )
* 2003 -Fred Rogers , American children's television actor (b.1928 )
*2004 -Paul Sweezy , American economist and editor (b.1910 )
* 2004 -Yoshihiko Amino , Japanese historians (b.1928 )
*2006 -Otis Chandler , American newspaper publisher (b.1927 )
* 2006 -Robert Lee Scott, Jr. , U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b.1908 )
* 2006 - Linda Smith, British comedian (b.1958 )
*2007 -Bobby Rosengarden , American jazz drummer (b.1924 )
* 2007 -Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven , German soldier (b.1914 )
*2008 -Myron Cope , American sports broadcaster (b.1929 )
* 2008 -William F. Buckley, Jr. , American conservative author and commentator (b.1925 )
* 2008 -Boyd Coddington , American automobile designer (b.1944 )Holidays and observances
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Roman Empire -Equirria ; horse races in honor of the war god Mars were held.
*Bahá'í Faith - Day 2 ofAyyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) - days in theBahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
*Dominican Republic -National Day .
* First day ofMaslenitsa inRussia (2006 )
*Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
*Saint Leander
*Saint Honorine
*February 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/27 BBC: On This Day]
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* [http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Feb&day=27 On This Day in Canada] ----
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