February 27st Events |
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| February 27th, 2008 (February 27 2008) | Event | Mas Selamat bin Kastari, a suspected JI terrorism leader, escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Centre in Singapore. | |
| February 27th, 2007 (February 27 2007) | Event | The general strike against Lansana Conte in Guinea ends. | |
| February 27th, 2007 (February 27 2007) | Event | The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years. | |
| February 27th, 2004 (February 27 2004) | Event | A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116. | |
| February 27th, 2004 (February 27 2004) | Event | Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans for a Better Barbuda. | |
| February 27th, 2003 (February 27 2003) | Event | Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church. | |
| February 27th, 2002 (February 27 2002) | Event | Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair s handling of the evacuation. | |
| February 27th, 2002 (February 27 2002) | Event | Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya; | |
| February 27th, 1999 (February 27 1999) | Event | Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria s first elected president since mid-1983. | |
| February 27th, 1999 (February 27 1999) | Event | Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently directed by Ann Clapper. | |
| February 27th, 1991 (February 27 1991) | Event | Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated". | George H. W. Bush Quotes |
| February 27th, 1989 (February 27 1989) | Event | Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo. | |
| February 27th, 1986 (February 27 1986) | Event | The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis. | |
| February 27th, 1976 (February 27 1976) | Event | The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. | |
| February 27th, 1974 (February 27 1974) | Event | People magazine is published for the first time. | |
| February 27th, 1973 (February 27 1973) | Event | The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota. | |
| February 27th, 1971 (February 27 1971) | Event | Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati. | |
| February 27th, 1967 (February 27 1967) | Event | Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom. | |
| February 27th, 1964 (February 27 1964) | Event | The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over. | |
| February 27th, 1963 (February 27 1963) | Event | The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo. | |
| February 27th, 1961 (February 27 1961) | Event | The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated. | |
| February 27th, 1951 (February 27 1951) | Event | The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified. | |
| February 27th, 1945 (February 27 1945) | Event | Lebanon declares Independence. | |
| February 27th, 1943 (February 27 1943) | Event | The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men. | |
| February 27th, 1943 (February 27 1943) | Event | The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin | |
| February 27th, 1942 (February 27 1942) | Event | World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied (ABDA) strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies | |
| February 27th, 1940 (February 27 1940) | Event | Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 | |
| February 27th, 1939 (February 27 1939) | Event | American Civil Rights Movement: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States. | |
| February 27th, 1933 (February 27 1933) | Event | Reichstag fire: Germany s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire. | |
| February 27th, 1922 (February 27 1922) | Event | 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. | Allen Tate Quotes |
| February 27th, 1921 (February 27 1921) | Event | The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna. | |
| February 27th, 1900 (February 27 1900) | Event | Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg. | |
| February 27th, 1900 (February 27 1900) | Event | The British Labour Party is founded. | |
| February 27th, 1864 (February 27 1864) | Event | American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. | |
| February 27th, 1861 (February 27 1861) | Event | A crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland is fired upon by Russian troops, killing five protesters. | |
| February 27th, 1860 (February 27 1860) | Event | Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency. | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| February 27th, 1844 (February 27 1844) | Event | The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti. | |
| February 27th, 1812 (February 27 1812) | Event | 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. | Lord Byron Quotes |
| February 27th, 1801 (February 27 1801) | Event | Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. See District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 | |
| February 27th, 1700 (February 27 1700) | Event | The island of New Britain is discovered. | |
| February 27th, 1626 (February 27 1626) | Event | Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci. | |
| February 27th, 1617 (February 27 1617) | Event | Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea. | |
| February 27th, 1594 (February 27 1594) | Event | Henry IV is crowned King of France. | |
| February 27th, 1560 (February 27 1560) | Event | The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland. | |
