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NAZIS
On Feb. 27, 1933, Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming the Communists, used the fire as justification for suspending civil liberties.
WAR!
1864 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties).
1991 President George H.W. Bush declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight, Eastern time.
2003 Iraq agreed in principle to destroy its Al Samoud II missiles, two days before a U.N. deadline.
TERRORISM
1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed.
1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup.
1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota.
1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed.
1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed).
2003 The Bush administration lowered the national terror alert from orange to yellow.
2007 A suicide bomber struck Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, who was rushed to a bomb shelter. (Twenty-three people were killed; Cheney was unhurt.)
DISASTER
1803 Great fire in Bombay, India.
1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead).
GOLF
1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath.
STARS
1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X" "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files).
1974 "People" magazine begins sales.
HAUNTED
1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire.
SWEET
1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener).
TIRED
1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw.
PATENTS
1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine.
DEATH PENALTY
1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption.
KILLERS
1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA.
1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati.
POLITICS
1801 the District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.
JEWS
1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I.
1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President.
SPORTS
1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes.
UNREST
1861 in Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland; five marchers were killed.
WOMEN
1922 The Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.
LIMITS
1951 The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.
MIRACLES
1960 The U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)
INDIANS
1973 Members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until May.)
UPSETS
1979 Jane M. Byrne confounded Chicago's Democratic political machine as she upset Mayor Michael A. Bilandic to win their party's mayoral primary. (Byrne went on to win the election.)
ROYALS
1998 With the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's House of Lords agreed 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.
FINANCE
2007 The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 416.02 points, the worst drop since the 2001 terrorist attacks.
BORN
1807 poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine.
1920 Reg Simpson cricketer (prolific England opener 1948-55).
BIRTHDAYS
Actress Joanne Woodward is 78. Actress Elizabeth Taylor is 76. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is 74. Actress Barbara Babcock is 71. Actor Howard Hesseman is 68. Actress Debra Monk is 59. Rock singer-musician Neal Schon (Journey) is 54. Rock musician Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) is 51. Actor Timothy Spall is 51. Rock musician Paul Humphreys (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) is 48. Country singer Johnny Van Zant (Van Zant) is 48. Rock musician Leon Mobley (Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals) is 47. Basketball Hall-of-Famer James Worthy is 47. Actor Adam Baldwin is 46. Actor Grant Show is 46. Rock musician Mike Cross (Sponge) is 43. Actor Donal Logue is 42. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chilli (TLC) is 37. Rock musician Jeremy Dean (Nine Days) is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer Roderick Clark is 35. Country-rock musician Shonna Tucker (Drive-By Truckers) is 30. Chelsea Clinton is 28. Rhythm-and-blues singer Bobby Valentino is 28. Singer Josh Groban is 27. Actress Kate Mara is 25.
DEATH
1939 Nadezjda K Krupskaya Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70.
1985 J Pat O'Malley actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83.
2003 Children's television host Fred Rogers died in Pittsburgh at age 74.
February 27, the 58th day of 2008. There are 308 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
image: 911 review
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
SCIENCE
1962 Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7.
WAR!
1942 Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers.
1944 During World War II, U.S. bombers began raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers in a series of attacks that became known as "Big Week."
1998 With the U.S. military poised to attack Iraq, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan began a final campaign to end the crisis over weapons inspections without bloodshed.
TERRORISM
1869 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis.
1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City.
1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage.
2007 In a victory for President Bush, a divided federal appeals court ruled that Guantanamo Bay detainees could not use the U.S. court system to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.
DISASTER
1835 Concepción, Chile destroyed by earthquake.
1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die.
1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die.
1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
2003 A fire broke out during a rock concert at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., killing 100 people and injuring about 200 others.
IMMIGRATION
1907 President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded "idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons" from being admitted to the United States.
FALSE ALARMS
1971 The National Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously ordered U.S. radio and TV stations off the air; some stations heeded the alert, which was not lifted for about 40 minutes.
RACE
1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal KS).
THAT SUCKING SOUND
1992 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show.
GOLFERS
1927 Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath.
PRO WRESTLING
1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion.
OOPS!
1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA.
VOLCANO
1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (México).
DUELS
1839 Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.
WINE
1673 1st recorded wine auction held (London).
WIND
1861 Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm.
SURF
1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco.
SCALPED!
1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty.
SPORTS
1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players.
NANNY STATE
1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition.
PROGRESS
1792 President Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
SCIENCE
1989 Total eclipse of the Moon.
PATENTS
1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin.
1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags.
1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine.
LEVIATHAN
1809 The Supreme Court, in United States v. Peters, ruled the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state.
MISTAKES
2003 A 17-year-old Mexican girl mistakenly given a heart and lungs with the wrong blood type received a second set of organs at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina; however, Jesica Santillan suffered brain damage and later died.
KILLED
1983 Ray Vitte actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33.
ASSASSINATION
1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt.
IRAN
1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran.
RESIGN
1938 Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's decision to negotiate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
SPIES
2003 Former Air Force Master Sgt. Brian Patrick Regan was convicted in Alexandria, Va., of offering to sell U.S. intelligence to Iraq and China but acquitted of attempted spying for Libya. (Regan was later sentenced to life without parole.)
JEWS
1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation.
1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland.
1987 Soviet authorities released Jewish activist Josef Begun.
1995 Shlomo Averbach Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend.
BORN
1914 John Daly South Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line).
1967 Kurt Cobain rock vocalist (Nirvana)/husband of Courtney Love.
BIRTHDAYS
Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt is 84. Actor Sidney Poitier is 81. Actress Marj Dusay is 72. Jazz-soul singer Nancy Wilson is 71. Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is 67. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Phil Esposito is 66. Movie director Mike Leigh is 65. Actress Brenda Blethyn is 62. Actress Sandy Duncan is 62. Rock musician J. Geils is 62. Actor Peter Strauss is 61. Rock singer-musician-producer Walter Becker (Steely Dan) is 58. Country singer Kathie Baillie is 57. Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is 54. Actor Anthony Stewart Head is 54. Country singer Leland Martin is 51. Actor James Wilby is 50. Rock musician Sebastian Steinberg is 49. Comedian Joel Hodgson is 48. Basketball player Charles Barkley is 45. Rock musician Ian Brown (Stone Roses) is 45. Actor French Stewart is 44. Actor Ron Eldard is 43. Model Cindy Crawford is 42. Actor Andrew Shue is 41. Actress Lili Taylor is 41. Singer Brian Littrell is 33. Actress Lauren Ambrose is 30. Actor Jay Hernandez is 30. Actress Majandra Delfino is 27. Singer-musician Chris Thile is 27. Actor Jake Richardson is 23. Singer Rihanna is 20.
DEATH
1790 Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II died.
1976 Kathryn Kuhlman religious leader/faith healer, dies.
1992 Dick York actor (Darren on Bewitched), dies of emphysema at 63.
February 20, the 51st day of 2008. There are 315 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
Image: wikipedia
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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