This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
02/27/ 289 Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (312-37), adopted Christianity 
02/27/1539 Franciscus Raphelengius, Dutch book publisher 
02/27/1622 Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter 
02/27/1649 Johann Philipp Krieger, composer 
02/27/1702 Johann Valentin Gorner, composer 
02/27/1745 Silverius Muller, composer 
02/27/1746 Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer 
02/27/1759 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer 
02/27/1784 Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on Rhine) 
02/27/1784 Job Plimpton, composer 
02/27/1792 Don Joaquin BF Espartero, Spanish adventurer/field marshal 
02/27/1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet (Hiawatha) 
02/27/1822 Eugene Gautier, composer 
02/27/1823 Fredinand Van Derveer, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892

02/27/1823 William Buel Franklin, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 190

02/27/1827 Richard W Johnson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897 
02/27/1832 Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist, died in 1872 
02/27/1846 Joaquin Valverde, composer 
02/27/1847 Dame Ellen Alice Terry, England, actress/director (Imperial Theatre)

02/27/1848 Charles Hubert H Parry, English musicologist/composer (Jerusalem) 
02/27/1850 Henry Edwards Huntington, US, railroad exec 
02/27/1861 Rudolf Steiner, Austria, philosopher (founded anthroposophy movement

02/27/1867 Irving Fisher, US economist (compensating dollar) 
02/27/1867 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer 
02/27/1870 Louis Coerne, composer 
02/27/1873 Enrico Caruso, composer 
02/27/1874 Max Ettinger, composer 
02/27/1879 Jose Sancho Marraco, composer 
02/27/1881 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, mathematician 
02/27/1881 Sveinn Bj”rnsson, 1st president of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild

02/27/1886 Hugo L Black, Ala, (Sen-D-Ala)/78th Supreme Court justice (1937-71) 
02/27/1887 James D Innes, English painter 
02/27/1888 Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello) 
02/27/1891 David Sarnoff, US, radio/TV pioneer/CEO (RCA) 
02/27/1891 Georges E Migot, French composer 
02/27/1892 William Demarest, St Paul Minn, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons) 
02/27/1893 Joseph Messner, composer 
02/27/1894 Robert-Lucien Siohan, composer 
02/27/1895 Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys)

02/27/1897 Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (Lyot filter) 
02/27/1897 G Paul H Schuitema, graphic designer/photographer (System-O-Color) 
02/27/1898 Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History) 
02/27/1898 Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer 
02/27/1899 Charles H Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin) 
02/27/1899 Ian Keith, US actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers) 
02/27/1899 Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer 
02/27/1901 Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter 
02/27/1902 Gene Sarazen, Harrison NY, PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 3

02/27/1902 John Steinbeck, Salinas Calif, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962) 
02/27/1903 Reginald Gardiner, Wimbeldon England, actor (Great Dictator) 
02/27/1904 James Thomas Farrell, US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy) 
02/27/1904 Renaat Verhe˜en, Flemish actor/director 
02/27/1905 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye) 
02/27/1905 Franchot Tone, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey) 
02/27/1906 H Algernon F 'Algy' Rumbold, English diplomat (S Africa/Tibet) 
02/27/1907 Gerhard Alexander, actor (Prince Willem of Orange) 
02/27/1909 Elisabeth Welsh, singer 
02/27/1910 Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli) 
02/27/1910 Peter De Vries, Chicago, author (Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon) 
02/27/1912 Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet) 
02/27/1913 Frank Allaun, British MP (L) 
02/27/1913 Irwin Shaw, US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man) 
02/27/1919 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, composer 
02/27/1920 Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orch leader (Jack Paar Program) 
02/27/1921 Andras Szollosy, composer 
02/27/1922 Mervyn Jones, author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers) 
02/27/1923 Dexter Gordon, US tenor saxophonist 
02/27/1923 Viktor Kalabis, composer 
02/27/1925 Guy Mitchell, Detroit Mich, singer/actor (Guy Mitchell Show) 
02/27/1925 Richard AFM Auwerda, journalist/writer 
02/27/1926 Peter Emery, British MP 
02/27/1930 Joanne Woodward, Thomasville Ga, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel) 
02/27/1932 Dolf Rover, painter 
02/27/1932 Elizabeth Taylor, London, actress (Cleopatra) violet eyes 
02/27/1932 Lord Young of Graffham, CEO (Cables & Wireless) 
02/27/1933 Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic 
02/27/1933 Malcolm Wallop, (Sen-R-WY, 1977-  ) 
02/27/1933 Raymond Berry, Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts) 
02/27/1934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan/consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed) 
02/27/1934 Van Williams, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon) 
02/27/1935 Alberto Remedious, opera singer 
02/27/1935 Mirella Freni, Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly) 
02/27/1936 Chuck Glaser, Spalding Neb, singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again)

02/27/1936 Roger M Mahoney, Hollywood Ca, archbishop of Los Angeles (1985-  ) 
02/27/1936 Virginia Maskell, actress (Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs) 
02/27/1937 Barbara Babcock, actress (Liz-Dallas, Grace-Hill St Blues) 
02/27/1937 L Jay Silvester, US, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1972) 
02/27/1938 Pascal Petit, actor (Code Name: Jaguar, End of Desire, Cheaters) 
02/27/1939 Antoinette Sibley, ballerina 
02/27/1939 Kenzo Takada, fashion designer 
02/27/1939 Peter Revson, auto racer (1971 Indianapolis pole winner) 
02/27/1940 Howard Hesseman, Salem Or, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Clas

02/27/1941 Paddy Ashton, New Delhi India, British MP leader (Soc/Lib Democrat) 
02/27/1942 Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer) 
02/27/1943 Mary Frann, St Louis Mo, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Live) 
02/27/1944 Alan Fudge, Wichita Ks, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls) 
02/27/1947 Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970) 
02/27/1947 Marian G Fix, mime/actress (Dig up Cabbage) 
02/27/1948 Eddie Gray, rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue) 
02/27/1951 Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91) 
02/27/1952 Dwight Elmo Jones, Houston Tx, basketball player (Olymp-silver-1972)

02/27/1952 Henk Westbroek, singer (Good Goal) 
02/27/1954 Neal Schon, rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English) 
02/27/1955 Garry Christian, rocker 
02/27/1957 Adrian Smith, heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High) 
02/27/1960 Andres Gomez, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990) 
02/27/1960 Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC) 
02/27/1960 Paul Humphreys, rock synthersizers (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age) 
02/27/1960 Stoney Jackson, Richmond Va, actor (White Shadow, Insiders) 
02/27/1961 Grant Shaud, actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown) 
02/27/1961 James Worthy, NBA forward (LA Lakers, 1988 Playoff MVP) 
02/27/1962 Adam Baldwin, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard) 
02/27/1962 Grant Show, Detroit Mich, actor (Jack Hanson-Melrose Place) 
02/27/1964 Ewen Vernal, British pop bassist (Deacon Blue-Your Town) 
02/27/1966 Gregg Rainwater, actor (Buck Cross-Young Riders) 
02/27/1969 Victoria Fair, Jackson Michigan, Miss Michigan-America (1991) 
02/27/1971 Ivan Robinson, Phila Pa, US boxer (Olympic-92) 
02/27/1973 'Pooh' Clark, rocker (High-5) 
02/27/1975 Christina Nigra, actress (Out of This World) 
02/27/1980 Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Clinton 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
02/27/1167 Robert van Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies 
02/27/1656 Johan van Heemskerk, lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies 
02/27/1731 Angelo Predieri, composer, dies at 76 
02/27/1733 Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer, dies at 46 
02/27/1779 John Nepveu, gov-gen of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59 
02/27/1797 Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 62 
02/27/1805 Stefan Paluselli, composer, dies at 57 
02/27/1844 Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer, diplomat, statesman, & financier, dies 
02/27/1852 Joseph Drechsler, composer, dies at 69 
02/27/1862 Gabriele dell' Addolorata, patron of Ital Catholic youth, dies at 23

02/27/1881 George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 

02/27/1887 Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, composer, dies at 53 
02/27/1920 Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72 
02/27/1923 Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer, dies at 67 
02/27/1929 Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer, dies at 65 
02/27/1936 Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies 
02/27/1939 Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies 
02/27/1942 Karel WFM Doorman, spy (Java sea), dies 
02/27/1943 Kost¡s Palam s, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Bas¡lia), dies at 84

02/27/1945 HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplin/resistance fighter (Belsen) 
02/27/1955 Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66 
02/27/1956 Frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54 
02/27/1956 Gunther Ramin, composer, dies at 57 
02/27/1958 Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack 
02/27/1960 Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58 
02/27/1961 Platt Adams, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1912), dies 
02/27/1962 Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45 
02/27/1966 Minerva Urecal, actress (Apache Rose, Ghost Crazy), dies at 81 
02/27/1968 Ludvik Podest, composer, dies at 46 
02/27/1969 John Boles, actor (Stella Dallas, Curly Top), dies at 73 
02/27/1973 Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, composer, dies at 72 
02/27/1974 Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show), dies at 59 
02/27/1977 Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47 
02/27/1978 Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer, dies at 65 
02/27/1980 George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78 
02/27/1982 Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer, dies at 39 
02/27/1985 David Huffman, actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies 
02/27/1985 Henry Cabot Lodge, (Sen-R)/diplomat, dies at 82 
02/27/1985 Pat J O'Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83 
02/27/1987 Joan Greenwood, actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65 
02/27/1989 Conrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies 
02/27/1989 Joe Silver, actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies 
02/27/1991 Artie Mitchell, XXX producer (Behind the Green Door), shot at 45 
02/27/1991 H J of Royen, director Concert worker, dies 
02/27/1991 Robert-John Akkerman, diplomat to Tunis, murdered 
02/27/1992 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch political president (CNV), dies 
02/27/1993 Lillian Gish, US actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 99 
02/27/1993 Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83 
02/27/1994 Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84 
02/27/1994 Karl I Pelgrom, sculptor, dies at 66 
02/27/1994 Leopold 'Hans' Kohr, Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 8

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
02/27/ 837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 
02/27/1526 Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes) 
02/27/1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral 
02/27/1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname 
02/27/1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I 
02/27/1700 Pacific island of New Britain discovered 
02/27/1713 French troops bomb Willemstadt Cura‡ao 
02/27/1801 Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction 
02/27/1803 Great fire in Bombay, India 
02/27/1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted 
02/27/1813 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail 
02/27/1814 Beethoven's 8th symphony premieres 
02/27/1816 Dutch regain Suriname 
02/27/1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans 
02/27/1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day) 
02/27/1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine 
02/27/1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing 
02/27/1864 6th & last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties) 
02/27/1864 Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp 'Camp Sumpter' 
02/27/1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri 
02/27/1869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress 
02/27/1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission 
02/27/1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U 
02/27/1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor 
02/27/1874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds 
02/27/1877 US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner presidential election 
02/27/1881 Battle at Amajuba, S Afr: Boers vs Brit army under Gen Colley 
02/27/1881 Battle at Majuba Hill: Boers beat British, 94 killed 
02/27/1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine 
02/27/1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw 
02/27/1900 Boer General Cronj‚ surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Afric

02/27/1900 Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party 
02/27/1906 France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides 
02/27/1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway 
02/27/1919 1st public performance of Holst's 'Planets' 
02/27/1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing formed, NYC 
02/27/1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote 
02/27/1924 Belgium's Theunis govt falls 
02/27/1925 Hitler's forms NSDAP political party in Munich 
02/27/1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath

02/27/1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact 
02/27/1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency 
02/27/1930 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1665 Gaby 
02/27/1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead) 
02/27/1933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2248 Kanda 
02/27/1933 Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on communists 
02/27/1936 Willy de Supervise swims world record 100 m free style (1:04.6) 
02/27/1938 Britain & France recognize Franco govt in Spain 
02/27/1939 Belgian govt of Pierlot falls 
02/27/1939 France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain 
02/27/1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes 
02/27/1942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese 
02/27/1942 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun 
02/27/1947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized 
02/27/1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president 
02/27/1950 General Chang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 
02/27/1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms 
02/27/1951 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1649 Fabre 
02/27/1956 Female suffrage in Egypt 
02/27/1957 Mao's speech 'On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People' 
02/27/1959 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 playe

02/27/1960 oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied in use 
02/27/1962 South-Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diems palace bombed, 1st US killed 
02/27/1965 Dutch Marijnen govt resigns 
02/27/1967 Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK 
02/27/1967 Dominica gains independence from England 
02/27/1967 Pink Floyd release their 1st single 'Arnold Layne' 
02/27/1967 Rio de la Plata Treaty 
02/27/1969 Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via milt coup 
02/27/1969 President Nixon visits West-Berlin 
02/27/1970 NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance 
02/27/1972 Pres Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique 
02/27/1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota 
02/27/1973 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox 
02/27/1973 Indians occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota 
02/27/1973 L Kohoutek discovers asteroids 1999 Hirayama, 2407, 2472, 2541 & 290

02/27/1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin 
02/27/1975 House of Reps pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill 
02/27/1976 Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon 
02/27/1976 P Wild discovers asteroids #2080 Jihlava, #2081 Sazava & #2088 Sahli

02/27/1976 R M West discovers asteroid #3004 
02/27/1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada

02/27/1980 Grammy Awards feature a Barbra Striesand-Neil Diamond duet 
02/27/1980 Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors 
02/27/1980 Robert Mugabes ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe 
02/27/1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota 
02/27/1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747 
02/27/1981 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record 'Ebony & Ivory' 
02/27/1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw 
02/27/1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million 
02/27/1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta 
02/27/1983 Eamonn Coghlan set indoor mile record of 3:49.78 
02/27/1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 m) 
02/27/1984 WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC 
02/27/1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa 
02/27/1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief 
02/27/1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published 
02/27/1985 US dollar is worth Ÿ3.9355 (Netherlands) 
02/27/1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff 
02/27/1987 Mike Conley jumps world record (17.76m) 
02/27/1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speedskating in record 39.1 
02/27/1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34 
02/27/1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating 
02/27/1989 German war criminals Aus Van de Fnten/Fischer, freed 
02/27/1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16 
02/27/1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison 
02/27/1991 US led allied 6 week war with Iraq ends 
02/27/1994 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway 
02/27/1994 Church in Beirut bombed, 10 killed 
  
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