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Heres some interesting and fun things that have happened on this day in History. Enjoy!
| Today's Highlights in History
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 See a larger version of this front page. | On Feb. 27, 1991, President George H.W. Bush declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight. (Go to article.) On Feb. 27, 1886, Hugo Black, who served 34 years as a U.S. Supreme Court judge and was known as a champion of civil liberties, was born. Following his death on Sept. 25, 1971, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays) | ||
 | On February 27, 1875, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Congress. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) | ||
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| 1801 | The District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress. |
| 1807 | Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine. |
| 1902 | Author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, Calif. |
| 1922 | The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing the right of women to vote. |
| 1933 | Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, caught fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext to suspend civil liberties. |
| 1939 | The Supreme Court outlawed sit-down strikes. |
| 1951 | The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified. |
| 1973 | Members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, S.D., the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. The occupation lasted until May. |
| 1982 | 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. |
| 1986 | The U.S. Senate approved telecasts of its debates on a trial basis. |
| 1997 | Divorce became legal in Ireland. |
| 1997 | Legislation banning most handguns in Britain went into effect. |
| 1998 | Britain's House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as a first-born son. |
| 2002 | Alicia Keys won five Grammy Awards for her debut album, "Songs in A Minor," tying the record for a female artist held by Lauryn Hill and since tied by Norah Jones and Beyonce. |
| 2002 | A mob of Muslims set fire to a train carrying hundreds of Hindu nationalists in Godhra, India; some 60 people died. |
| 2003 | Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic was sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison. |
| 2003 | Fred Rogers, the host of TV's "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" died at age 74. |
| 2007 | A suicide bomber struck Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, who was rushed to a bomb shelter. (Twenty-three people were killed; Cheney was unhurt.) |
| 2008 | Author and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. died at age 82. |
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 AP Photo/Reed Saxon Singer Josh Groban turns 28 years old today.
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| Historic Birthdays | |
| Hugo Black | |
 2/27/1886 - 9/25/1971 American politician and Supreme Court associate justice (Go to obit.) | |
| 75 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2/27/1807 - 3/24/1882 American poet |
| 81 | Ellen Terry 2/27/1847 - 7/21/1928 English actress |
| 101 | Alice Hamilton 2/27/1869 - 9/22/1970 American pathologist who worked on industrial diseases |
| 88 | Lotte Lehmann 2/27/1888 - 8/26/1976 German lyric-dramatic soprano |
| 80 | David Sarnoff 2/27/1891 - 12/12/1971 Russian-bn. American C.E.O. of R.C.A. and N.B.C. |
| 79 | Marino Marini 2/27/1901 - 8/6/1980 Italian artist |
| 66 | John Steinbeck 2/27/1902 - 12/20/1968 American Nobel Prize-winning novelist |
| 83 | Peter De Vries 2/27/1910 - 9/28/1993 American editor and novelist |
| 78 | Lawrence Durrell 2/27/1912 - 11/7/1990 English novelist and poet |
| 71 | Irwin Shaw 2/27/1913 - 5/16/1984 American playwright, novelist and screenwriter |
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Thanks for all the facts too.... ;-)
Happy Birthday to you!
Many happy returns of the day,Dear..Enjoy this very special day of your life and may you get all the happiness
kudos!
I hope it was great.