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27 Feb 1526
Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
27 Feb 1531
Evangelical German towns form Schmalkaldische Union
27 Feb 1563
William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
27 Feb 1626
Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci
27 Feb 1665
Battle at Elmina Gold Coast Vice-admiral De Ruyter beats English
27 Feb 1667
Abraham Crijnssen conquers Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia) Suriname
27 Feb 1670
Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
27 Feb 1678
Earl of Shaftesbury freed from the Tower of London
27 Feb 1696
EnglishWelsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
27 Feb 1801
Washington D.C. placed under Congressional jurisdiction
27 Feb 1813
US Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
27 Feb 1844
Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
27 Feb 1850
12th Grand National Chris Green aboard Abd-El-Kader wins
27 Feb 1854
Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
27 Feb 1856
18th Grand National George Stevens aboard Freetrader wins
27 Feb 1861
Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square Warsaw
27 Feb 1861
US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
27 Feb 1864
6th and last day of battle at Dalton Georgia (about 600 casualties)
27 Feb 1864
Near Andersonville Georgia rebels open a new POW camp Camp Sumpter
27 Feb 1869
John Menard is 1st African American to make a speech in the US Congress
27 Feb 1872
Charlotte Ray 1st African American woman lawyer in USA graduates from Howard University
27 Feb 1873
Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
27 Feb 1874
Baseball 1st played in England at Lords Cricket Ground
27 Feb 1879
Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
27 Feb 1881
Battle at Amajuba South African Boers vs British army under General Colley
27 Feb 1883
Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
27 Feb 1890
D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m) in San Francisco match is a draw
27 Feb 1900
Boer General Cronj surrenders to British in Pardenberg South Africa
27 Feb 1900
In London the Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet results in a Labour Representative Committee and eventually the modern Labour Party in 1906
27 Feb 1901
NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
27 Feb 1901
A General Committee of National Liberal Federation meets and adopts a resolution deploring the continuation of the war in South Africa and condemning the British Governments insistence on unconditional surrender by the Boers
27 Feb 1906
France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
27 Feb 1939
Borley Rectory the most haunted house in England destroyed in a fire
27 Feb 1940
Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley California
27 Feb 1942
Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk and 2 Japanese
27 Feb 1943
The Smith Mine 3 in Bearcreek Montana explodes killing 74 men
27 Feb 1908
Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931 reinstated 1954)
27 Feb 1919
American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
27 Feb 1921
US Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
27 Feb 1921
The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna
27 Feb 1922
G B Shaws Back to Methusaleh III premieres in NYC
27 Feb 1922
US Supreme Court unanimously upholds 19th amendment to the US Constuituent - womens right to vote
27 Feb 1925
Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett who took 5-45 & 6-37 v England
27 Feb 1927
For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
27 Feb 1932
Explosion in coal mine Boissevain Virginia USA leaves 38 dead
27 Feb 1933
The Reichstag German parliament building destroyed by fire set by the Nazis who blame it on Communists
27 Feb 1936
Willy den Ouden swims world record 100m free style (104.6)
27 Feb 1946
4th Road film Road to Utopia premieres (NYC)
27 Feb 1947
Frecnh explorer Paul-Emile Victor founds French Polar Expeditions to oversee French scientific missions
27 Feb 1949
Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st President of Israel
27 Feb 1951
22nd amendment ratified limiting US Presidents to 2 terms
27 Feb 1957
Maos famous speech to the Supreme State Conference On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People expounding Maoist ideals
27 Feb 1957
Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an X Xavier Cugat Show on NBC (until X-Files)
27 Feb 1959
Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
27 Feb 1960
Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
27 Feb 1960
US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
27 Feb 1960
Veikko Hakulinen of Finland wins his 3rd career Olympic cross country gold medal as part of Finlands 4 x 10k relay team at Squaw Valley CA winner 50k (Oslo 1952) and 30k (Cortina dAmpezzo 1956)
27 Feb 1961
The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated
27 Feb 1964
What Makes Sammy Run opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 performances
27 Feb 1964
The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
27 Feb 1965
High Spirits closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances
27 Feb 1966
Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler and Bernard Ford of great Britain
27 Feb 1966
Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova and Protopopov of the Soviet Union
27 Feb 1966
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US
27 Feb 1966
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer of Austria
27 Feb 1966
8th Daytona 500 Polesitter Richard Petty comes from 2 laps down to win the event after 198 laps were completed because of rain
27 Feb 1967
Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
27 Feb 1970
NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
27 Feb 1971
Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati
27 Feb 1973
American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
27 Feb 1973
Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
27 Feb 1973
White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3 year 750000 contract
27 Feb 1975
CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
27 Feb 1975
US House of Representatives pass 21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
27 Feb 1980
Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
27 Feb 1981
Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
27 Feb 1982
Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets) hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
27 Feb 1982
Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than 1 million
27 Feb 1982
Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
27 Feb 1983
Eamonn Coghlan of Ireland set indoor mile record of 349.78
27 Feb 1984
WRC-AM in Washington D.C. changes call letters to WWRC
27 Feb 1984
Workers union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
27 Feb 1985
Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
27 Feb 1985
Mauritanias new constitutional charter published
27 Feb 1986
The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis
27 Feb 1987
Washington Week In Review 20th anniversary on PBS
27 Feb 1987
Donald Regan resigns as White House chief of staff
27 Feb 1987
Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m)
27 Feb 1987
NCAA cancels SMUs entire football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
27 Feb 1988
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
27 Feb 1988
Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 360834
27 Feb 1988
Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
27 Feb 1989
German war criminals Aus der Funten and Fischer freed in Holland
27 Feb 1990
Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
27 Feb 1990
No-one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years
27 Feb 1990
Hold On single released by Wilson Phillips (Billboard Song of the Year )
27 Feb 1993
PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
27 Feb 1994
XVII Winter Olympic Games close in Lillehammer Norway
27 Feb 1995
Car bomb explodes in Zakho North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
27 Feb 1996
Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India
27 Feb 1997
Last Night of Ballyhoo opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
27 Feb 1997
Singer Sade (Helen Folasade) arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a police officer
27 Feb 1998
Apple discontinues development of the Newton computer
27 Feb 1998
FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
27 Feb 1998
NE Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges
27 Feb 1998
Britains House of Lords agrees to end 1000 years of male precedence by giving a monarchs first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son
27 Feb 1998
14th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
27 Feb 1999
Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigerias first elected president since mid-1983
27 Feb 1999
Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung
27 Feb 1999
Aston Villa are the last Premier League team to play a match with an all-English starting XI in a 4-1 defeat by Coventry
27 Feb 2002
Godhra train burning a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya
27 Feb 2002
Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanairs handling of the evacuation.
27 Feb 2003
Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague Netherlands to 11 years in prison
27 Feb 2003
Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.
27 Feb 2004
Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda Barbudans for a Better Barbuda
27 Feb 2004
A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116
27 Feb 2007
The general strike against Lansana Cont in Guinea ends
27 Feb 2007
The Chinese Correction the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9% the largest drop in 10 years
27 Feb 2009
Statistics Finland informs that Finlands gross domestic product diminished by 1.3% in the last quarter of 2008 from the previous quarter
27 Feb 2010
Central Chile is hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.
27 Feb 2012
Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor
27 Feb 2013
17 Afghan militia are killed by Taliban insurgents in an attack in the Andar District
27 Feb 2013
20 people are killed in a market fire in Calcutta India
27 Feb 1850
12th Grand National Chris Green wins aboard Irish outsider Abd-El-Kader goes on to become first dual winner and first to win in consecutive years
27 Feb 1856
18th Grand National George Stevens wins aboard 251 Freetrader first of Stevens record 5 GN victories
27 Feb 1879
Russian Chemist Constantin Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
27 Feb 1936
Dutch swimmer Willy den Ouden sets new womens world 100m freestyle record (104.6) in Amsterdam lasts 22 years until broken in 1956 by Dawn Fraser of Australia
27 Feb 1960
Five Nations Rugby Championship is won jointly by England and France with the pivotal game a 3-3 draw between the teams at Stade Colombes Paris
27 Feb 1996
First ever appearance of Pokmon in role-playing video game Pocket Monsters Red and Green for Game Boy in Japan
27 Feb 1693
1st womens magazine Ladies Mercury published in London England
27 Feb 1879
Russian Chemist Constantin Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener) [1]
27 Feb 1947
French explorer Paul-Emile Victor founds French Polar Expeditions to oversee French scientific missions
27 Feb 2014
Republic of Crimea announces a referendum and ousts its regional government
27 Feb 1563
British composer William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln England
27 Feb 1964
Erwin Drakes musical What Makes Sammy Run starring Steve Lawrence Robert Alda and Sally Ann Howes opens at 54th St Theater NYC runs for 540 performances
27 Feb 1977
Swedish pop group ABBA arrives in Australia for the first time sparking ABBA-mania
27 Feb 1987
American Mike Conley sets world indoor triple jump record (17.76m) in New York
27 Feb 2005
77th Academy Awards Million Dollar Baby Jamie Foxx and Hilary Swank win
27 Feb 1900
Battle of Paardeberg Boer General Piet Cronj surrenders to the British after a prolonged siege
27 Feb 1994
Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas percussion revue Stomp opens at the Orpheum Theatre NYC runs for 11475 performances
27 Feb 1997
British singer Sade arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a police officer
27 Feb 1454
Siege of Malbork including its castle seat of the Teutonic Order begun by Polish and Prussian forces - captured September
27 Feb 1693
The first womens magazine Ladies Mercury is published in London
27 Feb 1900
The Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet in London resulting in a Labour Representative Committee and eventually the modern UK Labour Party in 1906
27 Feb 1942
Radio emissions from the Sun first detected by English physicist and radio astronomer James Stanley Hey working on WWII radar anti-jamming methods
27 Feb 1943
University of Munich professor Kurt Huber advisor to student non-violent resistance group White Rose arrested by Nazis
27 Feb 1957
Mao Zedongs famous speech to the Supreme State Conference On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People expounding Maoist ideals
27 Feb 2010
8.8 magnitude earthquake rattles central Chile epicenter just off the coast also triggers a tsunami
27 Feb 1557
Osep Gregoriwich Napea the 1st Russian ambassador to England arrives in London
27 Feb 1623
Amboyna Massacre ten Englishmen and ten Japanese and a Portuguese are beheaded by the Dutch for supposedly planning to seize their fort on Ambon Island (modern Indonesia)
27 Feb 1665
Battle at Elmina Gold Coast Dutch Vice-admiral De Ruyter captures Fort Cormantin from the English
27 Feb 1670
Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I orders all Jews expelled from Austria given until August to comply
27 Feb 1879
Russian-American chemist Constantin Fahlberg discovers an artificial sweetener (later named saccharin) while working on coal tar analysis at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland [1]
27 Feb 1901
National League Rules Committee for baseball decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
27 Feb 1973
MLB Chicago White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3 year 750000 contract
27 Feb 1976
Final meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon
27 Feb 1984
Workers union leader Billy Nair (55) freed from Robben Island Prison in South Africa after 20 years as a political prisoner
27 Feb 2014
Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine
27 Feb 2014
Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61000 people to a job interview in Stockholm
27 Feb 2014
Unmarked Russia special forces invade neighboring Crimea Ukraine to assist pro-Russian nationalists occupying government buildings in preparation for annexation
27 Feb 2014
US Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a religious freedom bill that would have allowed businesses to turn away gay customers
27 Feb 2015
Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow
27 Feb 1693
First womens magazine The Ladies Mercury is published in London
27 Feb 1872
Charlotte Ray the first African American woman lawyer in the USA graduates from Howard University
27 Feb 1874
Baseball is first played in England at Lords Cricket Ground
27 Feb 1883
Oscar Hammerstein patents the first cigar-rolling machine
27 Feb 1939
Borley Rectory the most haunted house in England is destroyed in a fire
27 Feb 1943
The Rosenstrasse Protest a rare mass public demonstration in Germany against the Third Reichs deportation of Jews in Berlin the protest by non-Jewish wives and relatives of detained Jewish men lasts a week and results in the release of approximately 1800 captives
27 Feb 1943
The Smith Mine No. 3 in Bearcreek Montana explodes killing 74 men
27 Feb 1981
Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner 610 on a Boeing 747
27 Feb 1982
Wayne Williams is found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 Black individuals in Atlanta
27 Feb 1985
14000 American farmers converge in Ames Iowa to demand economic relief
27 Feb 1996
First appearance of Pokmon in the role-playing video game Pocket Monsters Red and Green for Game Boy in Japan
27 Feb 2019
Doctors announce worlds second known case of semi-identical twins a boy and girl from Brisbane Australia
27 Feb 2019
First gun control legislation for 25 years passed by US House of Representatives with new federal background checks
27 Feb 2019
Pakistan shoots down an Indian fighter jet and captures the pilot further escalating tensions in the disputed Kashmir region
27 Feb 2019
Smallest baby boy ever born to be later successfully released goes home after original birth weight of 268g (9.45oz) from Tokyo hospital
27 Feb 2019
Train crashes into a buffer at Cairos main railway station killing 25 and injuring dozens in Egypt
27 Feb 2020
Biggest cosmic explosion ever detected from a supermassive black hole in Ophiuchus galaxy 390 million lights years away (size of 15 Miky Ways) published in Astrophysical Journal
27 Feb 2020
Dow Jones Industrial Average suffers its biggest points fall in history closing down 1190.95 in New York amid concerns about COVID-19
27 Feb 2021
US authorizes its third COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson a one-shot vaccine
27 Feb 2022
Countries sanction Russia for its invasion of Ukraine EU closes its airspace to Russian planes Russian banks excluded from worldwide Swift payment system Sweden sends arms to Ukraine
27 Feb 2022
EU warns Russian invasion of Ukraine means Europe facing major humanitarian crisis 18 million Ukrainians displaced with four million refugees fleeing the country
27 Feb 2024
First confirming sighting of a sexual encounter between humpback whales and the first homosexual coupling published in Marine Mammal Science [1]
27 Feb 2024
Quickly spreading wildfires across Texas Panhandle propel Governor Greg Abbott to issue a disaster declaration for 60 counties [1]