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Events on the 27th of February in history

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27 Feb 0380 Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
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27 Feb 0425 The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
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27 Feb 0837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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27 Feb 0907 Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao dynasty in northern China.
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27 Feb 1526 Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
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27 Feb 1531 Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union
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27 Feb 1557 1st Russian Embassy opens in London, Russia and US sign trade agreement
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27 Feb 1557 1st Russian Embassy opens in London
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27 Feb 1560 The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
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27 Feb 1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
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27 Feb 1594 Henry IV is crowned King of France.
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27 Feb 1617 Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
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27 Feb 1626 Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
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27 Feb 1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English
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27 Feb 1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
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27 Feb 1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
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27 Feb 1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower
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27 Feb 1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
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27 Feb 1700 The island of New Britain is discovered.
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27 Feb 1700 Pacific island of New Britain discovered
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27 Feb 1713 French troops bomb Willemstad Curacao
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27 Feb 1776 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
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27 Feb 1782 American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
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27 Feb 1801 Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
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27 Feb 1801 Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction
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27 Feb 1803 Great fire in Bombay, India
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27 Feb 1812 Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
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27 Feb 1812 Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
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27 Feb 1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
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27 Feb 1813 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
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27 Feb 1814 Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres
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27 Feb 1816 Dutch regain Suriname
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27 Feb 1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans LA
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27 Feb 1829 Battle of Tarqui is fought.
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27 Feb 1844 The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
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27 Feb 1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
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27 Feb 1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
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27 Feb 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.
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27 Feb 1861 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland
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27 Feb 1861 Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
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27 Feb 1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
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27 Feb 1861 Warsaw Massacre Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russian rule of Poland
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27 Feb 1864 Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
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27 Feb 1864 American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
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27 Feb 1864 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
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27 Feb 1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
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27 Feb 1869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
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27 Feb 1870 The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
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27 Feb 1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission
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27 Feb 1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard University
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27 Feb 1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
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27 Feb 1874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds
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27 Feb 1877 US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner Presidential election
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27 Feb 1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
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27 Feb 1881 First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
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27 Feb 1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa Boers vs British army under General Colley
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27 Feb 1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
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27 Feb 1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw
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27 Feb 1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw
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27 Feb 1898 King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
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27 Feb 1900 Battle at Pietershoogte
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27 Feb 1900 British Labour Party forms
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27 Feb 1900 Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
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27 Feb 1900 The British Labour Party is founded.
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27 Feb 1900 Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
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27 Feb 1900 Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party
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27 Feb 1900 Battle at Pietershoogte; Boer General Cronj
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27 Feb 1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
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27 Feb 1902 Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry 'Breaker' Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria for war crimes.
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27 Feb 1906 France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
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27 Feb 1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
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27 Feb 1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
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27 Feb 1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
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27 Feb 1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
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27 Feb 1919 1st public performance of Holst's "The Planets"
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27 Feb 1919 American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed (New York NY)
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27 Feb 1921 The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
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27 Feb 1921 US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
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27 Feb 1921 US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
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27 Feb 1922 A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
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27 Feb 1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote
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27 Feb 1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
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27 Feb 1922 G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II" premieres in New York NY
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27 Feb 1924 Belgium's Theunis government falls
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27 Feb 1925 Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
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27 Feb 1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 vs England
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27 Feb 1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
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27 Feb 1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
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27 Feb 1929 Russia & US sign trade agreement
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27 Feb 1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
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27 Feb 1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
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27 Feb 1933 German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire
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27 Feb 1933 Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on Communists
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27 Feb 1933 Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire, apparently by the Communists.
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27 Feb 1933 German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire (set by Nazis, blamed on communists)
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27 Feb 1933 Jean Genet's "Intermezzo" premieres in Paris
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27 Feb 1936 Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 meter free style (1:04.6)
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27 Feb 1937 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs England in 223 minutes
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27 Feb 1938 Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain
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27 Feb 1939 United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
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27 Feb 1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
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27 Feb 1939 Belgian government of Pierlot falls
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27 Feb 1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire
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27 Feb 1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
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27 Feb 1942 World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
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27 Feb 1942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
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27 Feb 1942 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun
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27 Feb 1942 1st transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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27 Feb 1943 The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin.
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27 Feb 1943 The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
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27 Feb 1945 Battle of US 94 Infantry
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27 Feb 1946 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (NYC)
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27 Feb 1946 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (New York NY)
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27 Feb 1947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized
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27 Feb 1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President
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27 Feb 1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
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27 Feb 1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting President to 2 terms
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27 Feb 1951 The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
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27 Feb 1951 22nd amendment to the Constitution is ratified, limiting President to 2 terms in office
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27 Feb 1955 Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
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27 Feb 1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
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27 Feb 1956 Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"
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27 Feb 1956 Female suffrage in Egypt
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27 Feb 1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files)
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27 Feb 1957 Mao's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"
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27 Feb 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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27 Feb 1959 Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers
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27 Feb 1959 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players
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27 Feb 1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
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27 Feb 1960 US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
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27 Feb 1961 The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
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27 Feb 1962 Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
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27 Feb 1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed
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27 Feb 1963 The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
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27 Feb 1963 Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
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27 Feb 1964 "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St. Theater NYC for 540 performances
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27 Feb 1964 The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
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27 Feb 1965 "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances
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27 Feb 1965 Dutch Marijnen government resigns
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27 Feb 1965 France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
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27 Feb 1966 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford Great Britain
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27 Feb 1966 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova & Protopopov of USSR
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27 Feb 1966 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US
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27 Feb 1966 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer Austria
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27 Feb 1967 Antigua and St. Christopher-Nevis become associated states of the UK
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27 Feb 1967 Pink Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold Layne"
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27 Feb 1967 Dominica gains independence from England
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27 Feb 1967 Rio de la Plata Treaty
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27 Feb 1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup
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27 Feb 1969 President Nixon visits West-Berlin
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27 Feb 1970 New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
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27 Feb 1971 Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
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27 Feb 1972 President Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
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27 Feb 1973 Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee
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27 Feb 1973 White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3-year $750,000 contract
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27 Feb 1973 The American Indian Movement (AIM) occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
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27 Feb 1973 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-year contract with White Sox
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27 Feb 1973 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
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27 Feb 1974 "People" magazine begins sales
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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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27 Feb 1975 House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
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27 Feb 1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
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27 Feb 1976 The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
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27 Feb 1976 Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon
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27 Feb 1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
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27 Feb 1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
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27 Feb 1980 22nd Grammy Awards: What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet
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27 Feb 1980 Israel and Egypt exchange ambassadors
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27 Feb 1980 22nd Grammy Awards What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet (You Don't Bring Me Flowers)
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27 Feb 1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe
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27 Feb 1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
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27 Feb 1981 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder record "Ebony and Ivory"
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27 Feb 1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
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27 Feb 1981 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"
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27 Feb 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
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27 Feb 1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
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27 Feb 1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA
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27 Feb 1982 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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27 Feb 1983 Eamonn Coghlan sets indoor mile record of 3 49.78
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27 Feb 1983 Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament
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27 Feb 1984 WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC
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27 Feb 1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 meters)
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27 Feb 1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
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27 Feb 1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
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27 Feb 1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
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27 Feb 1985 US dollar is worth
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27 Feb 1986 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
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27 Feb 1987 "Washington Week In Review, " 20th anniversary on PBS
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27 Feb 1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
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27 Feb 1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
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27 Feb 1987 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76 meters)
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27 Feb 1988 Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent massacre.
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27 Feb 1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympics 500 meter speed skating in record 39.1
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27 Feb 1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympics figure skating
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27 Feb 1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
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27 Feb 1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36 08 34
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27 Feb 1989 Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
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27 Feb 1989 German war criminals Austria der F
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27 Feb 1990 No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years
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27 Feb 1990 Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
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27 Feb 1991 Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated
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27 Feb 1991 US led allied 6 week war with Iraq ends
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27 Feb 1991 Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
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27 Feb 1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500 meter mark at 3 34 16
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27 Feb 1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison
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27 Feb 1991 Ben Elton's "Silly Cow" premieres in London
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27 Feb 1992 Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL
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27 Feb 1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
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27 Feb 1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
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27 Feb 1994 17th Olympics Winter games close in Lillehammer, Norway
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27 Feb 1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
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27 Feb 1995 Zakho: A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho leaves about 100 dead and 150 wounded.
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27 Feb 1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
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27 Feb 1996 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India
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27 Feb 1997 "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater, New York City
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27 Feb 1997 "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
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27 Feb 1997 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop
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27 Feb 1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards
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27 Feb 1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer
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27 Feb 1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
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27 Feb 1998 New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges
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27 Feb 2002 Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
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27 Feb 2002 Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
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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 2007 The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
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27 Feb 2010 An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
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27 Feb 2012 A section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Russia, collapses in a natural gas explosion, killing ten people and injuring at least 12 others.
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27 Feb 2013 Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.
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27 Feb 2013 At least 19 people are killed when a fire breaks out at an illegal market in Kolkata, India.
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27 Feb 2015 A gunman kills seven people then himself in a series of shootings in Tyrone, Missouri.
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