Friday, February 27, 2015

Today In History

Enjoy History? Want to know some important things that happened today? We ALL do...


425-Theodosius effectively founds a university in Constantinople.

1531-German Protestants form the League of Schmalkalden to resist the power of the emperor.

1700-The Pacific Island of New Britain is discovered.

1814-Napoleon's Marshal Nicholas Oudinot is pushed back at Barsur-Aube by the Emperor's allied enemies shortly before his abdication.

1827-The first Mardi-Gras celebration is held in New Orleans.

1864-The first Union prisoners arrive at Andersonville Prison in Georgia.

1865-Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children. 

1905-The Japanese push Russians back in Manchuria and cross the Sha River. 

1908-The forty-sixth star is added to the U.S. flag, signifying Oklahoma's admission to statehood. 

1920-The United States rejects a Soviet peace offer as propaganda. 

1925-Glacier Bay National Monument is dedicated in Alaska. 

1933-The burning down of the Reichstag building in Berlin gives the Nazis the opportunity to suspend personal liberty with increased power. 

1939-The Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes. 

1942-British Commandos raid a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast. 

1953-F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River. 

1962-South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon. 

1963-The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba. 

1969-Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon's arrival in Rome. 

1973-U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can't bar residents because of color. 

1988-Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. 

1991-Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army. 




Born on February 27

1807-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet. 

1886-Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court justice. 

1888-Lotte Lehmann, German opera singer. 

1891-David Sarnoff, RCA board chairman and a pioneer of U.S. television 

1897-Marian Anderson, singer. 

1902-John Steinbeck, American novelist (The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men). 

1904-James T. Farrel, author (Young Lonigan). 

1910-Peter De Vries, writer, poetry editor (Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker). 

1912-Lawrence Durrell, novelist (The Alexandria Quartet). 

1917-John Connally, Texas Governor, wounded in the assassination of President John Kennedy.

1930-Joanne Woodward, actress (Rachel, Rachel, The Three Faces of Eve). 

1932-Elizabeth Taylor, actress (Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). 

1934-Ralph Nader, consumer advocate. 


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