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February 27
is the 58th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 307 days remaining until the end of the year (308 in
leap years
).
- 425
? The
University of Constantinople
is founded.
- 907
- Abaoji, a Khitan
chieftain
, is enthroned as
Emperor Taizu
, creating the
Liao Dynasty
in Northern
China
.
- 1560
? The
Treaty of Berwick
, expelling the French from
Scotland
, is signed by
England
and the Congregation of Scotland.
- 1594
?
Henry IV of France
is crowned king.
- 1617
-
Sweden
and
Russia
sign the
Treaty of Stolbovo
.
- 1626
-
Yuan Chonghuan
is appointed
Governor
of
Liaodong
, after he led the
Chinese
to a great victory over the
Manchurians
under
Nurhaci
.
- 1655
- The
lighthouse
at
Lindesnes
, the southernmost tip of
Norway
, is first lit, with 13
candles
.
- 1700
? The island of
New Britain
is first reached by a
European
, on an expedition led by
William Dampier
.
- 1776
-
American Revolutionary War
: The
Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
in
North Carolina
breaks up a Loyalist militia.
- 1782
-
American Revolutionary War
: The British
House of Commons
votes against further
war
in America.
- 1812
? Near the
city
of
Rosario
,
Manuel Belgrano
raises what later develops into the
Flag
of
Argentina
.
- 1844
? The
Dominican Republic
gains independence from
Haiti
.
- 1860
?
Abraham Lincoln
makes a speech at Cooper Union in
New York City
that contributes to him being elected US president.
- 1861
?
Russian
troops kill 5 protesters in
Warsaw
.
- 1864
?
American Civil War
: The first northern prisoners arrive the Confederate
prison
at
Andersonville
,
Georgia
.
- 1870
? The
Flag of Japan
is adopted as the national flag on merchant ships.
- 1881
-
First Boer War
: The
Battle of Majuba Hill
takes place.
- 1898
-
George I of Greece
survives an
assassination
attempt.
- 1900
? The UK
Labour Party
is founded.
- 1900
-
Second Boer War
: In
South Africa
, British officers receive an unconditional notice of surrender from
Boer
General
Piet Cronje
at the
Battle of Paardeberg
.
- 1912
- In
Sudan
, the first rail track from
Khartoum
to
El Obeid
opened.
- 1916
- British
passenger
steamer
Maloja
is sunk by a German U-boat two
miles
from
Dover
, killing 155 people.
- 1921
? The International Union of
Socialist
Parties is founded in
Vienna
.
- 1925
-
Adolf Hitler
re-founds the
Nazi Party
in
Munich
, ordering it to be built up on a national level.
- 1930
?
Bouvet Island
becomes a dependent territory of
Norway
.
- 1932
-
Nature
magazine
releases an article by
James Chadwick
, describing the existence of the
neutron
.
- 1933
? The
Reichstag
building in
Berlin
is set on
fire
.
- 1939
- The
United States Supreme Court
rules sit-in protests as illegal.
- 1940
?
Martin Kamen
and
Sam Ruben
discover Carbon-14.
- 1942
?
World War II
: The
Battle of the Java Sea
begins.
- 1943
? The Smith
Mine
#3 in Bearcreek,
Montana
, explodes, killing 74 men.
- 1943
- The Rosenstrasse
protest
begins in
Berlin
.
- 1948
?
President
of
Finland
Juho Kusti Paasikivi
signs a defence treaty with
Joseph Stalin
.
- 1951
? The 22nd Amendment to the
United States
Constitution
is ratified, limiting the US president to two terms in office.
- 1961
? The first
Congress
of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
- 1962
- Two dissident
Vietnam
Air Force
pilots
bomb
the Independence Palace in
Saigon
in a failed attempt to kill
South Vietnamese
leader
Ngo Dinh Diem
.
- 1963
?
Juan Bosch
is elected
President
of the
Dominican Republic
.
- 1964
- The Italian
Government
asks for help to keep the
Leaning Tower of Pisa
from toppling over.
- 1973
?
Wounded Knee Incident
standoff at the
Pine Ridge Reservation
in
South Dakota
begins.
- 1976
? The former Spanish
territory
of
Western Sahara
declares its independence.
- 1986
- The
United States Senate
allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- 1988
- A violent
pogrom
takes place against the
Armenian
Community in Sumgait,
Azerbaijan
.
- 1989
-
Venezuela
is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
- 1991
? US President
George H. W. Bush
declares that "
Kuwait
is liberated".
- 1992
-
Jack Unterweger
is arrested by
FBI
agents in
Miami
,
Florida
on suspicion of several
murders
.
- 1993
-
Niger
holds its first
Presidential
Election
.
- 1994
- The
1994 Winter Olympics
in
Lillehammer
,
Norway
, come to an end.
- 1995
- A
terrorist
explosion
in a market in the
city
of Zakho in
Iraqi
Kurdistan
kills around 100 people and injures over 150.
- 272
?
Constantine
, Roman Emperor (d.
337
)
- 1572
-
Francis II, Duke of Lorraine
(d.
1632
)
- 1689
?
Pietro Gnocchi
, Italian composer,
choir
director, historian and geographer (d.
1775
)
- 1711
?
Constantine Mavrocordates
, Prince of
Wallachia
and
Moldavia
(d.
1769
)
- 1767
-
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure
, French politician (d.
1855
)
- 1789
?
Manuel Rodriguez
,
Chilean
lawyer
and guerrilla (d.
1818
)
- 1795
-
Jose Antonio Navarro
, American
statesman
,
revolutionary
and
politician
from
Texas
(d.
1871
)
- 1799
-
Edward Belcher
, British polar explorer (d.
1877
)
- 1807
?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
, American
poet
(d.
1882
)
- 1809
-
Jean-Charles Cornay
, French
missionary
and
saint
(d.
1837
)
- 1814
-
Samuel Kleinschmidt
, German-Greenlandic
linguist
(d.
1886
)
- 1831
-
Nikolai Ge
, Russian painter (d.
1894
)
- 1836
-
Russell A. Alger
,
Governor
of
Michigan
(d.
1907
)
- 1846
-
Simon Bamberger
,
Governor
of
Utah
(d.
1926
)
- 1856
-
Mattia Battistini
, Italian
baritone
(d.
1928
)
- 1859
?
Bertha Pappenheim
, German activist and writer (d.
1936
)
- 1861
?
Rudolf Steiner
, Austrian philosopher (d.
1925
)
- 1862
?
Anastasios Metaxas
, Greek
architect
and shooter (d.
1937
)
- 1863
-
Joaquin Sorolla
, Spanish painter (d.
1923
)
- 1863
-
George Herbert Mead
, American
philosopher
and
psychologist
(d.
1931
)
- 1867
-
Irving Fisher
, American
economist
(d.
1947
)
- 1870
-
Louis Coerne
, American composer and music educator (d.
1922
)
- 1872
-
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
,
Prime Minister of Romania
(d.
1950
)
- 1874
-
F. M. Cornford
, English classical scholar and translator (d.
1943
)
- 1875
-
Manuel Ugarte
, Argentine politician (d.
1951
)
- 1877
?
Adela Verne
, English
pianist
(d.
1952
)
- 1878
?
Alvan T. Fuller
, 50th
Governor
of
Massachusetts
(d.
1958
)
- 1879
?
Rene Lefebvre
, martyr of the French Resistance (d.
1944
)
- 1881
?
Sveinn Bjornsson
, 1st
President
of
Iceland
(d.
1952
)
- 1882
-
Burton K. Wheeler
, American politician (d.
1975
)
- 1886
?
Hugo Black
,
United States Supreme Court
Justice (d.
1971
)
- 1887
-
Pyotr Nesterov
, Russian
pilot
and
aircraft
designer (d.
1914
)
- 1888
-
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.
, American
historian
(d.
1965
)
- 1888
?
Lotte Lehmann
, German singer (d.
1976
)
- 1891
?
Anne Samson
, Canadian
nun
and
supercentenarian
(d.
2004
)
- 1891
?
David Sarnoff
, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d.
1971
)
- 1892
?
William Demarest
, American actor (d.
1983
)
- 1895
-
Miyagiyama Fukumatsu
, Japanese
sumo
wrestler (d.
1943
)
- 1897
?
Marian Anderson
, American
contralto
(d.
1993
)
- 1897
-
Bernard Lyot
, French
astronomer
(d.
1952
)
- 1899
-
Charles Best
, Canadian
scientist
(d.
1978
)
- 1901
?
Marino Marini
, Italian artist and sculptor (d.
1980
)
- 1902
?
John Steinbeck
, American writer,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1968
)
- 1903
-
Ion Irimescu
, Romanian
sculptor
and sketcher (d.
2005
)
- 1903
-
Grethe Weiser
, German actress (d.
1970
)
- 1904
-
Yulii Borisovich Khariton
, Russian
physicist
(d.
1996
)
- 1904
-
Chick Fullis
, American
baseball
player (d.
1946
)
- 1905
-
Franchot Tone
, American actor (d.
1968
)
- 1907
-
Mildred Bailey
, American singer (d.
1951
)
- 1910
-
Genrikh Gasparyan
, Armenian
chess
player and
composer
(d.
1995
)
- 1910
?
Joan Bennett
, American actress (d.
1990
)
- 1912
?
Lawrence Durrell
, English writer (d.
1990
)
- 1913
?
Paul Ricoeur
, French
philosopher
(d.
2005
)
- 1913
?
Kazimierz Sabbat
, Polish politician (d.
1989
)
- 1917
?
John Connally
, 39th
Governor
of
Texas
and 61st
United States Secretary of the Treasury
(d.
1993
)
- 1921
-
Theodore Van Kirk
, American
soldier
,
pilot
and navigator (d.
2014
)
- 1923
-
Alejandro Zaffaroni
, Uruguayan-American
chemist
and
entrepreneur
(d.
2014
)
- 1923
-
Dexter Gordon
, American
jazz
saxophonist
(d.
1990
)
- 1926
?
David H. Hubel
, Canadian neuroscientist (d.
2013
)
- 1927
-
Lynn Cartwright
, American actress (d.
2004
)
- 1927
-
Guy Mitchell
, American singer (d.
1999
)
- 1928
?
Alfred Hrdlicka
, Austrian
artist
,
sculptor
and
writer
(d.
2009
)
- 1928
-
Jean Joubert
, French novelist, short story writer and poet (d.
2015
)
- 1928
?
Ariel Sharon
, former
Prime Minister of Israel
(d.
2014
)
- 1929
?
Djalma Santos
, Brazilian
footballer
(d.
2013
)
- 1930
?
Joanne Woodward
, American actress
- 1932
?
Elizabeth Taylor
, British-American actress (d.
2011
)
- 1932
-
Ernst Hinterseer
, Austrian
skier
- 1934
?
Ralph Nader
, American consumer activist
- 1934
-
Michiko Maeda
, Japanese
actress
- 1935
-
Alberto Remedios
,
operatic
tenor
- 1935
-
Mirella Freni
, Italian
soprano
- 1935
-
Brian Heap
, English biologist and academic
- 1936
-
Roger Mahony
, American
cardinal
- 1936
-
Ron Barassi
, Australian
footballer
and coach
- 1939
-
Kenzo Takada
, Japanese
fashion
designer
- 1939
-
Don McKinnon
, New Zealand politician
- 1939
-
Antoinette Sibley
, English ballerina
- 1940
-
Loren Pankratz
, American psychologist
- 1940
?
Bill Hunter
, Australian actor (d.
2011
)
- 1941
?
Paddy Ashdown
, British politician
- 1942
?
Robert H. Grubbs
, American
chemist
- 1942
?
Klaus-Dieter Sieloff
, German
footballer
(d.
2011
)
- 1943
?
Carlos Alberto Parreira
, Brazilian football manager
- 1945
-
Carl Anderson
, American actor and singer (d.
2004
)
- 1947
-
Gidon Kremer
, Latvian
violinist
and
conductor
- 1948
-
John Chittick
, American health activist (d.
2017
)
- 1950
-
Julia Neuberger
, English
rabbi
and politician
- 1950
-
Annabel Goldie
, Scottish politician
- 1951
-
Lee Atwater
, American political figure (d.
1991
)
- 1953
-
Ian Khama
,
President
of
Botswana
- 1953
-
Gabriela Svobodova
, Czech cross-country skier
- 1953
-
Gavin Esler
, British broadcaster
- 1953
-
Yolande Moreau
, Belgian
comedian
,
actress
,
movie director
and
screenwriter
- 1957
-
Viktor Markin
, Soviet-Russian sprinter
- 1957
?
Adrian Smith
, English musician (
Iron Maiden
)
- 1957
?
Timothy Spall
, English actor
- 1958
-
Maggie Hassan
,
Governor
of
New Hampshire
- 1959
?
Johnny Van Zant
, American singer (
Lynyrd Skynyrd
)
- 1960
?
Carson Yeung
,
Hong Kong
businessman
- 1962
-
Adam Baldwin
, American actor
- 1964
-
Thomas Lange
, German rower
- 1965
-
Noah Emmerich
, American actor
- 1966
?
Baltasar Kormakur
,
Icelandic
actor, director and producer
- 1969
-
Gareth Llewellyn
, Welsh
rugby
player
- 1969
-
Stuart MacBride
, Scottish
writer
- 1970
-
Goran Markov
,
Macedonian
footballer
- 1970
-
Patricia Petibon
, French
soprano
- 1971
?
Roman Giertych
, Polish Minister of Education
- 1971
?
Derren Brown
, British illusionist
- 1973
?
Peter Andre
, British-Australian singer-songwriter, businessman and television personality
- 1974
?
Colin Edwards
, American
motorcycle
racer
- 1974
-
Carte Goodwin
, former
United States
Senator
for
West Virginia
- 1975
-
Prodromos Korkizoglou
, Greek
decathlete
- 1976
-
Sergei Semak
, Russian
footballer
- 1978
?
James Beattie
, English
footballer
- 1978
-
Kakha Kaladze
,
Georgian
footballer
- 1979
-
Adriana Campos
, Colombian
actress
(d.
2015
)
- 1980
-
Debbie Flood
, British rower
- 1980
?
Chelsea Clinton
, daughter of
Hillary Clinton
and
Bill Clinton
- 1980
?
Bobby Valentino
, American singer
- 1981
-
Evi Goffin
, Belgian
singer-songwriter
- 1981
?
Josh Groban
, American singer
- 1982
-
Bruno Soares
, Brazilian
tennis
player
- 1982
-
Amedy Coulibaly
, French
Islamic
Jihadist
(d.
2015
)
- 1983
?
Kate Mara
, American actress
- 1984
?
Lotta Schelin
, Swedish
footballer
- 1985
?
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov
, Russian
footballer
- 1985
-
Brandon Coburn
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1988
-
Dustin Jeffrey
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1989
-
Shota Shimizu
, Japanese musician
- 1989
-
Stephen Kiprotich
,
Ugandan
long-distance runner
- 1989
-
Brittany Ashton Holmes
, American actress
- 1992
-
Jonjo Shelvey
, English
footballer
- 1992
-
Callum Wilson
, English
footballer
- 1992
-
Meyers Leonard
, American
basketball
player
- 1994
-
Hou Yifan
, Chinese
chess
player
- 1996
-
Marta Bassino
, Italian
skier
- 640
-
Pepin the Elder
, Frankish Mayor of the Palace (b.
580
)
- 956
-
Patriarch Theophylact of Constantinople
(b.
917
)
- 1659
-
Henry Dunster
, first
President
of
Harvard College
(b.
1609
)
- 1706
?
John Evelyn
, English diarist (b.
1620
)
- 1735
?
John Arbuthnot
, English
physician
and
writer
(b.
1667
)
- 1795
-
Tanikaze Kajinosuke
, Japanese
sumo
wrestler (b.
1750
)
- 1844
-
Nicholas Biddle
, American banker (b.
1786
)
- 1850
-
Samuel Adams
,
Governor
of
Arkansas
(b.
1805
)
- 1874
-
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
, Cuban revolutionary (b.
1819
)
- 1887
?
Alexander Borodin
, Russian composer (b.
1833
)
- 1892
?
Louis Vuitton
, French designer (b.
1821
)
- 1905
-
George S. Boutwell
,
Governor of Massachusetts
(b.
1818
)
- 1906
-
Samuel Pierpoint Langley
, American astrophysicist (b.
1834
)
- 1931
?
Chandrasekhar Azad
, Indian revolutionary (b.
1906
)
- 1936
?
Ivan Pavlov
, Russian
physiologist
(b.
1849
)
- 1936
-
Joshua W. Alexander
,
United States Secretary of Commerce
(b.
1852
)
- 1937
-
Emily Malbone Morgan
, American
saint
(b.
1862
)
- 1939
?
Nadezhda Krupskaya
, Russian revolutionary (b.
1869
)
- 1941
-
William D. Byron
, American politician (b.
1895
)
- 1943
?
Kostis Palamas
, Greek poet (b.
1859
)
- 1956
-
Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
, Indian politician (b.
1888
)
- 1970
?
Marie Dionne
, one of the Dionne quintuplets (b.
1934
)
- 1972
-
Pat Brady
, American actor and singer (b.
1914
)
- 1973
-
Bill Everett
, American
comic book
artist
(b.
1917
)
- 1985
?
Henry Cabot Lodge
, American politician (b.
1902
)
- 1986
?
Jacques Plante
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (b.
1929
)
- 1987
-
Joan Greenwood
, English actress and director (b.
1921
)
- 1989
?
Konrad Lorenz
, Austrian
zoologist
(b.
1903
)
- 1993
?
Lillian Gish
, American actress (b.
1893
)
- 1998
?
George H. Hitchings
, American
scientist
(b.
1905
)
- 1999
-
Christine Glanville
, British puppeteer (b.
1924
)
- 2002
?
Spike Milligan
, Irish-born comedian (b.
1918
)
- 2003
?
Fred Rogers
, American children's television actor (b.
1928
)
- 2003
-
John Lanchbery
, English-Australian
composer
and
conductor
(b.
1923
)
- 2006
-
Linda Smith
, British comedienne (b.
1958
)
- 2007
-
Bobby Rosengarden
, American
jazz
drummer (b.
1924
)
- 2008
?
Ivan Rebroff
, German singer (b.
1931
)
- 2008
?
William F. Buckley, Jr.
, American writer and commentator (b.
1925
)
- 2009
?
Manea Manescu
,
Romanian
Prime Minister
(b.
1916
)
- 2010
?
Wendy Toye
, British actress (b.
1917
)
- 2011
?
Necmettin Erbakan
, Turkish Prime Minister (b.
1926
)
- 2011
?
Frank Buckles
, American
World War I
veteran and
supercentenarian
(b.
1901
)
- 2013
-
Van Cliburn
, American
pianist
(b.
1934
)
- 2013
-
Ramon Dekkers
, Dutch
kickboxer
(b.
1969
)
- 2013
-
Dale Robertson
, American actor (b.
1923
)
- 2014
-
Jan Hoet
, Belgian art historian (b.
1936
)
- 2014
-
Huber Matos
, Cuban dissident, activist and writer (b.
1918
)
- 2014
-
Aaron Allston
, American game designer and
science fiction
writer (b.
1960
)
- 2015
-
Bohdan Tomaszewski
, Polish sports commentator (b.
1921
)
- 2015
-
Richard Bakalyan
, American actor (b.
1931
)
- 2015
-
Bob Benmosche
, American executive (b.
1944
)
- 2015
-
Mykhailo Chechetov
, Ukrainian politician (b.
1953
)
- 2015
-
Leonard Nimoy
, American actor (b.
1931
)
- 2015
-
Boris Nemtsov
, Russian politician (b.
1959
)
- 2016
-
Rajesh Pillai
, Indian film director (b.
1974
)
- 2017
-
John Harlan
, American radio and television announcer (b.
1925
)
- 2017
-
Carlos Humberto Romero
,
President
of
El Salvador
(b.
1924
)
- 2018
-
Quini
, Spanish
footballer
(b.
1949
)
- 2018
-
William H. T. Bush
, American businessman (b.
1938
)