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Anniversary on the 27th of February 1208

Anniversary
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100 years anniversary
27 Feb 1924   M M Shearer: Former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland
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27 Feb 1924   M M Shearer former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland
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27 Feb 1924   Norman Marshall cricketer (brother of Roy, one Test for West Indies 1955)
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27 Feb 1924   Belgium's Theunis government falls
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27 Feb 1924 Shaply reply to Hubble on Andromeda distance
Shaply reply to Hubble on Andromeda distance

   Shaply reply to Hubble on Andromeda distance
In 1924, Harlow Shapley wrote back in reply to the letter from Edwin Hubble which presented the measurement of 300,00 parsecs as the distance to the Andromeda nebula. That was the first proof that the nebula was far outside the Milky, in fact, a separate galaxy. When Shapley had debated Heber Curtis on 26 Apr 1920, he presented his firm, life-long conviction that all the Milky Way represented the known universe (and, for instance, the Andromeda nebula was part of the Milky Way.) On receipt of the letter, Shapley told Payne-Gaposchkin and said “Here is the letter that has destroyed my universe.” In his reply, Shapley said sarcastically that Hubble's letter was “the most entertaining piece of literature I have seen for a long time.” Hubble sent more data in a paper to the AAS meeting, read on 1 Jan 1925.
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75 years anniversary
27 Feb 1949   Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President
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27 Feb 1949   Robert Paterson, English bishop
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27 Feb 1949   Rosalinda Galli, Italian voice actress
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27 Feb 1949   Istvan Banyai, Hungarian illustrator and animator
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27 Feb 1949   Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President
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50 years anniversary
27 Feb 1974   Chris Dishman: Guard (Arizona Cardinals)
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27 Feb 1974   Pat Brady: Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show), dies at 59
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27 Feb 1974   "People" magazine begins sales
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27 Feb 1974   Movlud Miraliyev, Uzbekistani-Azerbaijani martial artist
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27 Feb 1974   Carte Goodwin, American lawyer and politician
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27 Feb 1974   Colin Edwards, American motorcycle racer
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27 Feb 1974   Julie Andrieu, French radio and television host
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27 Feb 1974   Cher filed for divorce from Sonny Bono. Cher married Gregg Allman from The Allman Brothers band on 27th June 1975.
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27 Feb 1974   Chris Dishman guard (Arizona Cardinals)
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27 Feb 1974   Jim Maher cricketer (Queensland lefty batsman victorious 1995 side)
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27 Feb 1974   Pat Brady Toledo OH, actor (Roy Rogers Show), dies at 59
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27 Feb 1974   "People" magazine begins sales
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27 Feb 1974   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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25 years anniversary
27 Feb 1999   Horace Tapscott American pianist and composer (b. 1934)
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27 Feb 1999   Britney Spears started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with '...Baby One More Time'. It became the biggest UK selling single of the year and also a No.1 in the US. It was originally written for TLC but the song was submitted after completion of their third record, FanMail.
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27 Feb 1999 circumnavigate
circumnavigate

   circumnavigate (aeronautics)
While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in their balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
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20 years anniversary
27 Feb 2004   The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
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27 Feb 2004   A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
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27 Feb 2004   Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian and academic (b. 1928)
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27 Feb 2004   Paul Sweezy, American economist and journalist (b. 1910)
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27 Feb 2004   A worker in a supermarket in Aspen, Colorado alerted the police-after seeing a man shopping with his face covered by a mask. Police arrived on the scene and identified the man as Michael Jackson who was in town on holiday with his children.
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10 years anniversary
27 Feb 2014   Vicente T. Ximenes, American activist (b. 1919)
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27 Feb 2014   Terry Rand, American basketball player (b. 1934)
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27 Feb 2014   Huber Matos, Cuban-American activist (b. 1918)
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27 Feb 2014   Tim Kehoe, American chemist and author (b. 1970)
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27 Feb 2014   Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (b. 1960)
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