Notable Historical Events on February 27th
February 27th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
837 |
15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
1526 |
Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes) |
1531 |
Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union |
1557 |
1st Russian Embassy arrives in London |
1563 |
William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral |
1594 |
Henri IV crowned king of France |
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-adm De Ruyter beats English |
1667 |
Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname |
1670 |
Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I |
1678 |
Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower |
1696 |
English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association |
1700 |
Pacific Island of New Britain discovered |
1713 |
French troops bomb Willemstad Curacao |
1801 |
Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction |
1803 |
Great fire in Bombay, India |
1813 |
1st federal vaccination legislation enacted |
1813 |
Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail |
1814 |
Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres |
1816 |
Dutch regain Suriname |
1827 |
1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans |
1844 |
Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day) |
1854 |
Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine |
1860 |
Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency. |
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 & last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties) |
1864 |
Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter" |
1865 |
Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri |
1869 |
John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress |
1871 |
Meeting of Alabama claims commission |
1872 |
Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Howard University |
1873 |
Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor |
1874 |
Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds |
1877 |
US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner presidential election |
1879 |
Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener) |
1881 |
Battle at Amajuba, S Afr: Boers vs Brit army under Gen Colley |
1883 |
Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine |
1890 |
D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw |
1900 |
Battle at Pietershoogte during the Boer War |
1900 |
Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa |
1900 |
In London, the Trade Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet, resulting 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 & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides |
1907 |
Psychiatrists Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud meet for the first time in Vienna |
1908 |
Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954) |
1908 |
Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma |
1912 |
Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway |
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 |
1921 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
1921 |
The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna. |
1922 |
Commerce Sec Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference |
1922 |
G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II," premieres in NYC |
1922 |
Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote |
1924 |
Belgium's Theunis government falls |
1925 |
Hitler's resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich |
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 (38 dead) |
1933 |
German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire |
1933 |
Jean Genet's "Intermezzo," premieres in Paris |
1933 |
Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on Communists |
1935 |
7th Academy Awards - "It Happened One Night," Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert wins |
1936 |
Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 m free style (1:04.6) |
1937 |
Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket v England in 223 minutes |
1938 |
Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain |
1939 |
Belgian government of Pierlot falls |
1939 |
English Spook house Borley Rectory 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 |
1941 |
13th Academy Awards - "Rebecca," James Stewart & Ginger Rogers win |
1942 |
1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942 |
Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-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 |
Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized |
1949 |
Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president |
1950 |
General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China |
1951 |
22nd amendment ratified, limiting US Presidents to 2 terms |
1955 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
1956 |
Female suffrage 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 |
1959 |
Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers |
1960 |
Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens |
1960 |
US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal |
1961 |
The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated. |
1962 |
South-Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed |
1963 |
Mickey Mantle of NY Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000 |
1964 |
"What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 perfs |
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/Bernard Ford GRB |
1966 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova & Protopopov of URS |
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 AUT |
1967 |
Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK |
1967 |
Dominica gains independence from England |
1967 |
Rio de la Plata Treaty |
1969 |
Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via milt coup |
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. |
1972 |
Pres Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique |
1973 |
American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota |
1973 |
Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox |
1973 |
Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius |
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 |
House of Reps pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill |
1976 |
Final meeting between Mao Zedong & Richard Nixon |
1977 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
1977 |
Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada |
1978 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1980 |
22nd Grammy Awards: What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet |
1980 |
Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors |
1980 |
Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe |
1980 |
Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota |
1981 |
Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747 |
1981 |
Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory" |
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 Muruora Island |
1982 |
Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta |
1983 |
Eamonn Coghlan set indoor mile record of 3:49.78 |
1983 |
Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament |
1984 |
Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 m) |
1984 |
WRC-AM in Washington DC 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 resigned 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 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
1988 |
Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1 |
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/Fischer, freed in Holland |
1989 |
Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo. |
1990 |
Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez) |
1990 |
No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years |
1991 |
Ben Elton's "Silly Cow," premieres in London |
1991 |
Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat and Kuwait is re-taken by the US |
1991 |
Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16 |
1991 |
Singer James Brown is released from prison |
1992 |
Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL |
1992 |
Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years |
1993 |
PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr |
1994 |
17th Winter Olympic games closes 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 |
1997 |
"Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC |
1997 |
Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrest in Jamaica for disobeying a cop |
1998 |
Apple discontinues developing 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 agree's to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son |
1998 |
12th Soul Train Music Awards: Puff Daddy, Whitney Houston win |
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. It is currently directed by Ann Clapper. |
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. |
2002 |
44th Grammy Awards: Walk On, Alicia Keys wins |
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 in the Anglican church. |
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. |
2005 |
77th Academy Awards - "Million Dollar Baby," Jamie Foxx & Hilary Swank win |
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. |
2007 |
Mark Messier's #11 jersey is retired by the Edmonton Oilers |
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. |
2011 |
83rd Academy Awards - "The King's Speech," Colin Firth & Natalie Portman win |
2012 |
Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor |
2013 |
20 people are killed in a market fire in Calcutta, India |
2013 |
17 Afghan militia are killed by Taliban insurgents in an attack in the Andar District |
2013 |
Pope Benedict XVI presents his farewell address to Vatican City |
2014 |
Republic of Crimea announces a referendum & ousts its regional government |
2014 |
Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister of the Ukraine |
2014 |
Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm |
2016 |
Virginia officer killed a day after she is sworn in |
2018 |
At least 30 killed in eastern Ghouta in 48 hours; aid convoys ready - UN |
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