| February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar. There are 307 days remaining, 308 in leap years.
Events
- 1560 - The Treaty of Berhick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland
- 1594 - Henry IV is
crowned King of France.
- 1617 - Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending
the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea
- 1700 - The island of New Britain is
discovered.
- 1793 - The Giles resolutions are introduced to the United States House of Representatives asking the House to condemn Alexander Hamilton's handling of loans.
- 1801 - Washington, DC is
placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S.
Congress.
- 1812 - Poet Lord Byron gives his
first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
- 1827 - The first Mardi Gras is
celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1844 - The Dominican
Republic gains independence from Haiti.
- 1861 - A crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule over Poland is fired upon by Russian
troops, killing five protesters.
- 1864 - American Civil
War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
- 1900 - Boer War: In South Africa, British
military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje.
- 1900 - The British
Labour Party is founded
- 1900 The FC Bayern München (Munich) is founded
- 1922 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing
women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United
States.
- 1933 - Reichstag fire:
Germany's parliament building in Berlin,
the Reichstag, is set on fire.
- 1939 - American Civil Rights Movement: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1942 - World War II: the USS Langley, the first United
States aircraft carrier, is sunk by Japanese warplanes.
- 1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution,
limiting Presidents to two terms, is
ratified.
- 1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to
keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 1967 - Dominica gains independence from
the United Kingdom.
- 1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
- 1974 - People
magazine is published for the first time.
- 1976 - The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario declares
independence as the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- 1986 - The United
States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- 1990 - Exxon
Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on five criminal
counts.
- 1991 - Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."
- 1999 - While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy
Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
- 1999 - Olusegun
Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.
- 2002- Ryanair Flight
296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport.
Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
- 2002 - 2002 Gujarat violence: a train catches fire a
few minutes after it leaves the Godhra railway station, killing an estimated 58
Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya and
triggering riots that lead to the death of 1000 people, mostly Muslims.
- 2003 - Rowan Williams is
enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in
the Anglican church.
Births
- 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (d. 1882)
- 1861 - Rudolf Steiner,
anthroposoph (d. 1925)
- 1886 - Hugo Black, associate justice
of the United States Supreme
Court (d. 1971)
- 1888 - Lotte Lehmann, singer
(d. 1976)
- 1890 - Freddie Keppard,
jazz musician (d. 1933)
- 1891 - David Sarnoff,
broadcasting pioneer (d. 1971)
- 1891 - Anne Samson, oldest-known Canadian 2002-2004 and oldest nun on
record 2003-2004 (d. 2004)
- 1892 - William Demarest,
actor (d. 1983)
- 1897 - Marian Anderson,
singer (d. 1993)
- 1899 - Charles Best, medical
scientist (d. 1978)
- 1902 - John Steinbeck,
writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
1962 (d. 1968)
- 1902 - Gene Sarazen, golfer (d. 1999)
- 1903 - Grethe Weiser, actress (d. 1970)
- 1905 - Franchot Tone, actor (d.
1968)
- 1907 - Mildred Bailey,
jazz performer (d. 1951)
- 1910 - Joan Bennett, actress (d.
1990)
- 1910 - Peter De Vries,
American writer, satirist (d. 1993)
- 1910 - Kelly Johnson, American aircraft engineer (d. 1990)
- 1912 - Lawrence Durrell,
writer (d. 1990)
- 1913 - Irwin Shaw, writer (d.
1984)
- 1917 - John Connally, Governor
of Texas (d. 1993)
- 1918 - William Jefferson Blythe III, father of U.S. President Bill Clinton, is born in Sherman, Grayson County, Texas (d. 1946)
- 1923 - Dexter Gordon, jazz saxophone player (d. 1990)
- 1925 - Sam Dash, Congressional counsel
(d. 2004)
- 1927 - Guy Mitchell, American
singer (d. 1999)
- 1928 - Alfred Hrdlicka, sculptor and graphic artist
- 1928 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
- 1930 - Joanne Woodward,
American actress
- 1930 - Peter Stone, writer
- 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor,
British-American actress
- 1933 - Raymond Berry, American football player
- 1934 - Ralph Nader, American
consumer activist
- 1934 - Van Williams, American actor
- 1935 - Mirella Freni, Italian
soprano
- 1937 - Barbara Babcock, American actress
- 1940 - Howard Hesseman,
American actor
- 1941 - Paddy Ashdown, British
politician
- 1942 - Charlayne
Hunter-Gault, American journalist
- 1943 - Morten Lauridsen,
composer
- 1943 - Mary Frann, American
actress (d. 1998)
- 1945 - Carl Anderson, American
singer, actor (d. 2004)
- 1947 - Gidon Kremer, Latvian
violinist
- 1954 - Neal Schon, American musician
(Journey)
- 1957 - Adrian Smith, musician
(Iron Maiden)
- 1957 - Viktor Markin, Soviet athlete
- 1958 - Nancy Spungen,
girlfriend of Sid Vicious (d. 1978)
- 1962 - Grant Show, American
actor
- 1966 - Donal Logue, Canadian
actor
- 1971 - Derren Brown,
psychological illusionist
- 1971 - Rozonda Thomas, American singer (TLC)
- 1980 - Chelsea Clinton,
daughter of former U.S. President
Bill Clinton
- 1981 - Josh Groban, American
singer
Deaths
- 1706 - John Evelyn, diarist (b.
1620)
- 1844 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (b. 1786)
- 1887 - Alexander
Borodin, composer (b. 1833)
- 1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian
physiologist
- 1964 - Orry-Kelly, costume designer
- 1968 - Frankie Lymon, singer
(b. 1942)
- 1972 - Pat Brady, American actor, singer
- 1977 - John Dickson
Carr, American author
- 1978 - Vadim Salmanov,
composer
- 1980 - George Tobias, American
actor
- 1985 - Henry
Cabot Lodge, politician, candidate for Vice President of the United States (b. 1902)
- 1986 - Jacques Plante,
ice hockey star (b. 1929)
- 1989 - Paul Oswald
Ahnert, astronomer (b. 1897)
- 1989 - Konrad Lorenz (b. 1903)
- 1992 - S. I. Hayakawa,
Canadian-American linguist, politician
- 1993 - Lillian Gish, actress (b.
1893)
- 1998 - J. T. Walsh, actor (b.
1943)
- 2002 - Spike Milligan,
comedian (b. 1918)
- 2002 - Mary Stuart, soap opera actress (b.
1926)
- 2003 - John Lanchbery,
English ballet composer (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Fred Rogers, children's television celebrity (b. 1928)
- 2004 - Paul Sweezy, economist and
founding editor of the Monthly Review (b. 1910)
Holidays and observances
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