Important Events of February – 27

Important Events of February – 27

This Day in History 

Events

• 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
• 1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.
• 1700 – The island of New Britain is discovered.
• 1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
• 1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
• 1861 – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
• 1881 – First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
• 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 Paperboard.
• 1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
• 1900 – Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
• 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. The Nazis used the fire to solidify their power and eliminate the communists as political rivals.
• 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
• 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.
• 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
• 1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
• 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that “Kuwait is liberated”.
• 2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair’s handling of the evacuation.
• 2002 – Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
• 2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines’ worst terrorist attack kills 116.
• 2004 – Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack
• 2007 – The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
• 2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
• World NGO Day

Births

• 272 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (Death – 337)
• 1912 – Kusumagraj, Indian author, poet, and playwright (Death – 1999)
• 1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress and humanitarian (Death – 2011)
• 1934 – Ralph Nader, American lawyer, politician, and activist
• 1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer and coach
• 1962 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
• 1975 – Aitor González, Spanish racing driver
• 1982 – Bruno Soares, Brazilian tennis player
• 1983 – Devin Harris, American basketball player

Deaths

• 1921 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and umpire (Birth – 1871)
• 1931 – Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (Birth – 1906)
• 1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate(Birth –  1849)
• 2008 – Sujatha, writer (Birth -1935)

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