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Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 27
- 150th: 1874 - Baseball first played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds.
- 100th: 1924 - Belgium's George Theunis government falls.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of M M Shearer; Lord Lieutenant of Shetland.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Norman Marshall; cricket player (brother of Roy, one Test for West Indies 1955).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Ralph Nader in Winsted, Connecticut, USA; consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Van Williams in Fort Worth, Texas, USA; actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of [Navarre] Scott Momaday; American author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer Prize 1969).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Alan Fudge in Wichita, Kansas, USA; actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Graeme Pollock; cricket player (South African batting prodigy).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Neal Schon; rock guitarist (Journey - "Open Arms", Bad English).
- 60th: 1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of April Heinrichs in Littleton, Colorado, USA; American women's soccer coach (Olympics-1996).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Ewen Vernal; British pop bassist (Deacon Blue - "Your Town").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Richard de Vries; soccer player (De Graafschap).
- 50th: 1974 - People magazine is published for the first time, in the USA.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Chris Dishman; guard (Arizona Cardinals).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Jim Maher; cricket player (Queensland lefty batsman victorious 1995 side).
- 50th: 1974 - Pat Brady of Toledo, Ohio, actor (Roy Rogers Show), dies at age 59.
- 50th: 1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 40th: 1984 - Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor long jump (8.675 metres).
- 40th: 1984 - Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa.
- 30th: 1994 - XVII Olympic Winter Games close in Lillehammer, Norway.
- 30th: 1994 - Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at age 92.
- 30th: 1994 - Maronite church near Beirut bombed, ten killed.
- 25th: 1999 - While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Manea Manescu, Romanian Prime Minister (born 1916).
- 5th: 2019 - (to January 28) The 2019 North Korea-United States summit is held in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the second summit between United States President Donald Trump and the North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un.
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