Today in History
By James Hughes
| YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
| 425 | Feb 27 | Theodosius effectively founded a university in Constantinople. |
| 1167 | Feb 27 | Robert of Melun, English philosopher, bishop of Hereford, died. |
| 1526 | Feb 27 | Saxony and Hesse formed the League of Gotha, a league of Protestant princes. |
| 1670 | Feb 27 | Jews were expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I. |
| 1706 | Feb 27 | John Evelyn, diarist, died. |
| 1801 | Feb 27 | The District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress. |
| 1813 | Feb 27 | The 1st federal vaccination legislation was enacted. |
| 1836 | Feb 27 | Mexican forces under General Jose de Urrea defeated Texan forces at the Battle of San Patricio. |
| 1887 | Feb 27 | Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (53), Russian physician, composer (Prince Igor), died. |
| 1905 | Feb 27 | Japanese pushed Russians back in Manchuria, and cross the Sha River. |
| 1908 | Feb 27 | The forty-sixth star was added to the U.S. flag, signifying Oklahoma’s admission to statehood. |
| 1919 | Feb 27 | 1st public performance of Gustav Holst’s “Planets.” |
| 1920 | Feb 27 | The US rejected a Soviet peace offer as propaganda. |
| 1922 | Feb 27 | G.B. Shaw’s “Back to Methuselah I/II” premiered in NYC. |
| 1925 | Feb 27 | Glacier Bay National Monument was dedicated in Alaska. |
| 1927 | Feb 27 | For the 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC were arrested for violating Sabbath. |
| 1932 | Feb 27 | Explosion in coal mine in Boissevain, Virginia, left 38 dead. |
| 1933 | Feb 27 | Jean Genet’s “Intermezzo,” premiered in Paris. |
| 1938 | Feb 27 | Britain and France recognized the Franco government in Spain. |
| 1942 | Feb 27 | Battle of Java Sea began. 13 US warships sank-2 Japanese. |
| 1949 | Feb 27 | Chaim Weizmann became the 1st Israeli president. |
| 1956 | Feb 27 | Female suffrage was granted in Egypt. |
| 1957 | Feb 27 | Mao made his speech “On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People.” |
| 1958 | Feb 27 | Harry Cohn, CEO of Columbia Pictures, died of a heart attack. |
| 1960 | Feb 27 | Adriano Olivetti (58), Italian engineer, manufacturer, died. |
| 1976 | Feb 27 | The final meeting between Mao tse Tung and Richard Nixon took place. |
| 1982 | Feb 27 | Wayne B. Williams was found guilty of murdering two of the 28 young blacks whose bodies were found in the Atlanta area over a 22-month period. |
| 1985 | Feb 27 | In San Francisco the Irwin Memorial Blood Bank said that 80 Bay Area residents have received blood since 1979 from donors who are know to have contracted AIDS. |
| 1987 | Feb 27 | “Washington Week In Review” celebrated its 20th anniversary on PBS. |
| 1990 | Feb 27 | The US Supreme Court ruled that prison officials could force inmates to take powerful anti-psychotic drugs without a judge’s consent. |
| 1991 | Feb 27 | In San Francisco wrecking balls began demolishing the Embarcadero Freeway. |
| 1992 | Feb 27 | Tiger Woods (16) became the youngest PGA golfer in 35 years. |
| 1993 | Feb 27 | President Clinton, in his weekly radio address, promised to find out who was behind the huge explosion at New York City’s World Trade Center, a bombing later blamed on Islamic militants. |
| 1994 | Feb 27 | The Winter Olympic Games ended in Lillehammer, Norway. |
| 1995 | Feb 27 | Court-appointed salvagers swarmed into Britain’s oldest investment bank to evaluate the remaining assets of Barings PLC after Nick Leeson, a 28-year-old trader, ruined the firm by gambling on Tokyo stock prices. |
| 1996 | Feb 27 | Bob Dole won the North Dakota and South Dakota primaries, while Steve Forbes captured Arizona’s winner-take-all primary. |
| 1997 | Feb 27 | A jury in Fayetteville, N.C., convicted former Army paratrooper James N. Burmeister of murdering a black couple so he could get a skinhead tattoo. He was later sentenced to life in prison. |
| 1998 | Feb 26 | A jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey’s talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad-cow disease. |
| 1999 | Feb 27 | Western planes bombed targets in southern Iraq and Baghdad claimed that 23 people were wounded. |
| 2000 | Feb 27 | Texas Governor George W. Bush’s campaign released a letter to New York Cardinal John O’Connor in which the Republican presidential candidate said he “deeply” regretted “causing needless offense” by making a campaign appearance at Bob Jones University, a South Carolina school whose leaders had espoused anti-Catholic views. |
| 2001 | Feb 27 | President Bush went before Congress with a $1.9 trillion spending plan that would sharply reduce growth in many government programs while leaving room to give Americans the biggest tax cut in two decades. |
| 2002 | Feb 27 | Alicia Keys won in 5 categories at the 44th annual Grammy Awards. Train won for best rock song: “Drops of Jupiter,” U2 won for best record of the year: “Walk On,” and Various Artists won the album of the year: “O Brother, Where Art Thou.” |
| 2003 | Feb 27 | The Bush administration lowered the terror alert threat to code yellow. |
| 2004 | Feb 27 | A federal judge in NY threw out 1 of 5 counts against Martha Stewart (62). She said prosecutors failed to prove that Stewart intended to commit securities fraud in her Dec 21, 2001, sale of ImClone Systems shares. 4 lesser charges remained. |
| 2005 | Feb 27 | Iran and Russia signed a deal that would deliver nuclear fuel to the Middle East country for the startup of its first reactor. |
| 2006 | Feb 27 | The US and Colombia reached a free trade agreement after nearly 2 years of negotiations. The pact needed approval by the legislatures of both countries. |
| 2007 | Feb 27 | The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 416.02 points, the worst drop since the 2001 terrorist attacks. |
| 2008 | Feb 27 | US National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell said told a Senate committee in Washington that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government controls just 30% of the country. The resurgent Taliban controls 10-11% of the country, while local tribes control the rest. The Afghan Defense Ministry soon replied saying: “All Afghan people know that in the 34 provinces of Afghanistan and in more than 360 districts … the government has control.” A remote-controlled bomb hit a civilian vehicle in eastern Khost province, killing the driver and wounding six people. A militant ambush of an opium poppy eradication force in Helmand province sparked clashes that left 25 Taliban fighters and a policeman dead. |
| 2009 | Feb 27 | President Barack Obama outlined his plan for withdrawing combat troops from Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010. |
| 2010 | Feb 27 | President Barack Obama signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation’s main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act. |
| 2011 | Feb 27 | In the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles “The King’s Speech,” a historical film, won best picture and three other prizes over more daring, contemporary contenders like “The Social Network” and “Black Swan.” The Oscar for best-actor went to Colin Firth for “The King’s Speech,” Natalie Portman won best-actress for “Black Swan,” and Christian Bale and Melissa Leo won as best supporting actors, both for “The Fighter.” |
| 2012 | Feb 27 | Colorado’s sec. of state said enough signatures have bee collected to allow a measure for the legalization of marijuana for recreational use to go before voters in November. |
| 2013 | Feb 27 | The US Senate confirmed Jacob J. Lew (57) as treasury secretary. |
| 2014 | Feb 27 | In Hawaii a small plane crashed after takeoff from Lanai Island killing 3 people and leaving three others injured. |
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