This Day in History for 27th February (Part 2)

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Historical Events

Results 101 - 191 of 191

1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1965 - "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances
1965 - Dutch Marijnen govt resigns
1965 - France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1966 - Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford GRB
1966 - Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova & Protopopov of URS
1966 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US
1966 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer AUT
1967 - Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
1967 - Dominica gains independence from England
1967 - Pink Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold Layne"
1967 - Rio de la Plata Treaty
1969 - Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via milt coup
1969 - President Nixon visits West-Berlin
1970 - NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
1971 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
1972 - Pres Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
1973 - American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
1973 - Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox
1973 - Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee
1973 - Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
1973 - White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3-year $750,000 contract
1974 - "People" magazine begins sales
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
1975 - House of Reps pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
1976 - Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon
1977 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1977 - Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
1978 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - 22nd Grammy Awards: What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet
1980 - Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors
1980 - Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe
1980 - Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
1981 - Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
1981 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"
1982 - Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
1982 - Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
1982 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1982 - Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
1983 - Eamonn Coghlan set indoor mile record of 3:49.78
1983 - Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament
1984 - Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 m)
1984 - WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC
1984 - Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
1985 - Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
1985 - Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
1985 - US dollar is worth Ÿ3.9355 (Netherlands)
1986 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1987 - "Washington Week In Review," 20th anniversary on PBS
1987 - Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
1987 - Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m)
1987 - NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
1988 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1988 - Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1
1988 - Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34
1988 - Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
1989 - German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1989 - Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo.
1990 - Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
1990 - No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years
1991 - Ben Elton's "Silly Cow," premieres in London
1991 - Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated & Kuwait is liberated
1991 - Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16
1991 - Singer James Brown is released from prison
1991 - US led allied 6 week war with Iraq ends
1992 - Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL
1992 - Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
1993 - PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
1994 - 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway
1994 - Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
1995 - Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
1996 - Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India
1997 - "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
1997 - Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrest in Jamaica for disobeying a cop
1998 - 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1998 - Apple discontinues developing Newton computer
1998 - FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
1998 - NE Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges
1998 - Britain's House of Lords agree's 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
1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.
1999 - Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently directed by Ann Clapper.
2002 - Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
2002 - Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
2003 - Fred Rogers, host of TV's "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" dies at age 74
2003 - Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison
2003 - Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church.
2004 - Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans for a Better Barbuda.
2004 - A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2007 - The general strike against Lansana Conté in Guinea ends.
2007 - The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.

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Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 270

1921 - Andras Szollosy, composer
1921 - Michael Fox, US, actor (Quincy, Dallas, Bold & the Beautiful)
1922 - Mervyn Jones, author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers)
1922 - Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
1923 - Dexter Gordon, US, tenor saxophonist/actor (Connection)
1923 - Viktor Kalabis, composer
1924 - M M Shearer, former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland
1924 - Norman Marshall, cricketer (brother of Roy, one Test for WI 1955)
1925 - Hugh Leggatt, art dealer
1925 - Michael Kaye, director (City of London Festival)
1925 - Richard AFM Auwerda, Dutch journalist/writer
1925 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
1926 - Peter Emery, British MP
1926 - David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Guy Mitchell, [Al Cernick], Detroit Mich, rocker/actor (Red Garters)
1927 - Lord Belhaven & Stenton
1927 - Michael Butler, Pro-Provost/chairman (Royal College of Art)
1927 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
1927 - Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
1928 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
1929 - Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
1929 - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d. 2008)
1930 - Joanne Woodward, Thomasville Ga, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel)
1930 - Lieux Dressler, actress (Alice Grant-General Hospital)
1930 - Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
1930 - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
1931 - Andrew Sloan, Chief Constable (Strathcourt)
1932 - Dolf Zwerver, Dutch painter
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, London, actress (Cleopatra) violet eyes
1932 - Lord Young of Graffham, CEO (Cables & Wireless)
1933 - 6th marquess of Bute, Scottish large landowner/bibliophile
1933 - Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic
1933 - Geoffrey Maitland Smith, CEO (Sears)
1933 - Malcolm Wallop, (Sen-R-WY, 1977- )
1933 - Raymond Berry, Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts)
1934 - Ralph Nader, Winsted Conn, consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed)
1934 - Van Williams, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon)
1934 - [Navarre] Scott Momaday, US author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969)
1934 - Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
1934 - Van Williams, American actor
1935 - Alberto Remedios, opera/concert singer
1935 - Mirella Freni, Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly)
1936 - Chuck Glaser, Spalding Neb, singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again)
1936 - Roger M Mahoney, Hollywood Ca, archbishop of Los Angeles (1985- )
1936 - Timothy Spall, actor (1871, Life is Sweet, Crusoe, Remembrance)
1936 - Virginia Maskell, actress (Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs)
1936 - Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer
1937 - Barbara Babcock, Pasadena CA, actr (Dr Quinn, Dallas, Hill St Blues)
1937 - Donald MacKay, CEO (Scottish Enterprise)
1937 - L Jay Silvester, US, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1972)
1937 - Viscount Head
1938 - Pascale Petit, PAris, actor (Code Name: Jaguar, End of Desire)
1939 - Antoinette Sibley, ballerina (Turning Point)
1939 - Kenzo Takada, Japanese director (Dream After Dream)
1939 - Lester King, cricketer (WI fast bowler, 2 Tests 1962-68, 9 wkts)
1939 - Peter Revson, auto racer (1971 Indianapolis pole winner)
1940 - Barbara Kelly, CEO (Scottish Consumer Council)
1940 - Howard Hesseman, Salem Or, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class)
1940 - Bill Hunter, Australian actor
1941 - Ian McGarry, general secretary (British Actors' Equity Association)
1941 - Paddy Ashton, New Delhi India, British MP (Soc/Lib Democrat)
1941 - Sandy Wilson
1942 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer)
1942 - Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Michel Forget, French Canadian actor
1943 - Mary Frann, St Louis Mo, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Live)
1943 - Morten Lauridsen, American composer
1944 - Alan Fudge, Wichita Ks, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls)
1944 - Graeme Pollock, cricketer (South African batting prodigy)
1944 - Roger Scruton, philosopher
1945 - Daniel Olbrychski, Poland, actor (La Truite)
1947 - Ashley Woodcock, cricketer (one Test Aust v NZ 1974, only knock 27)
1947 - Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)
1947 - Marian G Klaren, Dutch mime/actress (Red Cabbage)
1948 - Eddie Gray, rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
1948 - Stephen Curtis, CEO (DVLA)
1950 - Franco Moschino, fashion Designer
1950 - Julia Neuberger, British Rabbi
1951 - Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91)
1951 - Steve Harley, rocker (Come Up & See Me)
1952 - Dwight Elmo Jones, Houston Tx, basketball player (Olymp-silver-1972)
1952 - Henk Westbroek, Dutch singer (Good Cause)
1952 - Kevin Raleigh, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Michael Stanley Band)
1952 - Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
1954 - Neal Schon, rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English)
1955 - Garry Christian, rocker
1955 - Sally Spencer, actress (M J McKinnon-Another World)
1955 - Peter Christopherson, English musician and video director
1957 - Adrian Smith, heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High)
1957 - Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
1957 - Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator
1958 - Naas Botha, South African rugby union footballer
1958 - Nancy Spungen, American murder victim of Sid Vicious (d. 1978)
1959 - Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1960 - Andres Gomez, Ecuador, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990)
1960 - Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC)
1960 - John van Grinsven, soccer player (MVV)
1960 - Paul Humphreys, rock synthesizer (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age)
1960 - Stoney Jackson, Richmond Va, actor (White Shadow, Insiders)
1961 - Grant Shaud, actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown)