Historical Events on February 27

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• 837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
• 1526 Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)

• 1531 Evangelical German towns form Schmalkaldische Union
• 1557 1st Russian Embassy arrives in London
• 1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral

• 1626 Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci
• 1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-admiral De Ruyter beats English
• 1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquers Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
• 1670 Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
• 1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed from the Tower of London
• 1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association

• 1713 French troops bomb Willemstad, Curacao
• 1801 Washington, D.C. placed under Congressional jurisdiction
• 1803 Great fire in Bombay, India


• 1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
• 1813 US Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail

• 1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
• 1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
• 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
• 1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
• 1856 18th Grand National: George Stevens wins aboard 25/1 Freetrader; first of Stevens' record 5 GN victories

• 1861 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw
• 1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
• 1864 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
• 1864 Near Andersonville, Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
• 1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
• 1869 John Menard is 1st African American to make a speech in the US Congress
• 1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission
• 1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st African American woman lawyer in USA, graduates from Howard University
• 1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
• 1874 Baseball 1st played in England at Lord's Cricket Ground


• 1879 Russian Chemist Constantin Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
• 1881 Battle at Amajuba: South African Boers vs British army under General Colley
• 1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
• 1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m) in San Francisco; match is a draw
• 1900 Battle at Pietershoogte during the Boer War
• 1900 Boer General Cronjé surrenders to British in Pardenberg, South Africa
• 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
• 1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
• 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 Government's insistence on unconditional surrender by the Boers
• 1906 France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides

• 1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)

• 1919 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"
• 1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
• 1921 US Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard; US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
• 1921 The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna
• 1921 The Fascists incite a riot in Florence, Italy

• 1922 G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II" premieres in NYC
• 1922 US Supreme Court unanimously upholds 19th amendment to the US Constuituent - women's right to vote
• 1924 Belgium's Theunis government falls

• 1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 v England
• 1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
• 1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
• 1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
• 1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA leaves 38 dead
• 1933 The Reichstag, German parliament building, destroyed by fire; set by the Nazis, who blame it on Communists
• 1933 Jean Genet's "Intermezzo" premieres in Paris

• 1936 Willy den Ouden swims world record 100m free style (1:04.6)

• 1939 Belgian government of Pierlot falls
• 1939 Borley Rectory, "the most haunted house in England", destroyed in a fire
• 1939 France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain
• 1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
• 1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California

• 1942 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
• 1942 Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk and 2 Japanese
• 1942 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun
• 1943 The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men
• 1943 The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
• 1945 Battle of US 94 Infantry
• 1946 4th "Road" film "Road to Utopia" premieres (NYC)
• 1947 Frecnh explorer Paul-Emile Victor founds French Polar Expeditions to oversee French scientific missions
• 1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st President of Israel

• 1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting US Presidents to 2 terms
• 1956 Female suffrage granted in Egypt
• 1957 Mao's famous speech to the Supreme State Conference "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" expounding Maoist ideals
• 1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files)
• 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR


• 1959 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players

• 1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens

• 1960 Veikko Hakulinen of Finland wins his 3rd career Olympic cross country gold medal as part of Finland's 4 x 10k relay team at Squaw Valley, CA; winner: 50k (Oslo, 1952) and 30k (Cortina d’Ampezzo, 1956)
• 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
• 1961 The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated

• 1964 "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 performances
• 1964 The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
• 1965 "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances
• 1965 Dutch Marijnen government resigns
• 1965 France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
• 1966 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler and Bernard Ford of great Britain
• 1966 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova and Protopopov of the Soviet Union
• 1966 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US
• 1966 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer of Austria
• 1966 8th Daytona 500: Polesitter Richard Petty comes from 2 laps down to win the event after 198 laps were completed because of rain
• 1967 Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
• 1967 Dominica gains independence from England
• 1967 Rio de la Plata Treaty

• 1969 President Nixon visits West Berlin
• 1970 NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
• 1971 Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati

• 1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota

• 1973 White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3 year $750,000 contract
• 1974 "People" magazine begins sales
• 1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
• 1975 US House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill

• 1978 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

• 1980 Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors
• 1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
• 1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747

• 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
• 1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
• 1982 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
• 1983 Eamonn Coghlan of Ireland set indoor mile record of 3:49.78

• 1984 WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. changes call letters to WWRC
• 1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
• 1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
• 1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
• 1985 US dollar is worth Ÿ3.9355 (Netherlands)
• 1986 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis
• 1987 "Washington Week In Review" 20th anniversary on PBS
• 1987 Donald Regan resigns as White House chief of staff
• 1987 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m)
• 1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption

• 1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34
• 1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
• 1989 German war criminals Aus der Funten and Fischer freed in Holland
• 1989 Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo
• 1990 Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
• 1990 No-one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years

• 1990 "Hold On" single released by Wilson Phillips (Billboard Song of the Year 1990)
• 1991 Ben Elton's "Silly Cow" premieres in London
• 1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16

• 1992 Larry Smith named 9th Commissioner of the CFL
• 1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
• 1994 XVII Winter Olympic Games close in Lillehammer, Norway
• 1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
• 1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
• 1996 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India

• 1996 First ever appearance of Pokémon in role-playing video game "Pocket Monsters Red and Green" for Game Boy in Japan
• 1997 "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
• 1997 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade) arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a police officer
• 1998 Apple discontinues development of the Newton computer
• 1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
• 1998 NE Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges
• 1998 Britain's House of Lords agrees to end 1,000 years of male precedence by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son

• 1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
• 1999 Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983
• 1999 Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung
• 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


• 2002 Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya
• 2002 Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.

• 2003 Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison
• 2003 Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 2004 Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans for a Better Barbuda
• 2004 A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116

• 2007 The general strike against Lansana Conté in Guinea ends
• 2007 The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years

• 2009 Statistics Finland informs that Finland's gross domestic product diminished by 1.3% in the last quarter of 2008 from the previous quarter
• 2010 Central Chile is hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.

• 2012 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor
• 2013 17 Afghan militia are killed by Taliban insurgents in an attack in the Andar District
• 2013 20 people are killed in a market fire in Calcutta, India

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