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What happened in history on this day: February 27?
On February 27 in ...
- 1801 - Washington DC placed under US Congressional jurisdiction.
- 1813 - First US federal vaccination legislation enacted.
- 1813 - US Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail.
- 1827 - First Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- 1861 - US Congress authorizes first stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing.
- 1864 - Near Andersonville, Georgia, rebels open a new prisoner-of-war camp "Camp Sumter".
- 1864 - Sixth and last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties).
- 1865 - Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri.
- 1908 - Star number 46 is added to US flag, for Oklahoma.
- 1919 - American Association for the Hard of Hearing forms (New York City, New York).
- 1922 - US Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes first National Radio Conference.
- 1922 - US Supreme Court unanimously upholds 19th Amendment, woman's right to vote.
- 1927 - For second Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina are arrested for violating Sabbath.
- 1932 - Explosion in coal mine in Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead).
- 1939 - US Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes.
- 1942 - Battle of Java Sea begins (13 US warships sunk, 2 Japanese).
- 1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1962 - South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, first US killed of war.
- 1969 - US President Richard Nixon visits West Berlin.
- 1970 - New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance.
- 1972 - US President Richard Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issue Shanghai Communique.
- 1973 - American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
- 1974 - People magazine is published for the first time, in the USA.
- 1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1975 - US House of Representatives pass US$21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill.
- 1976 - Final meeting between China's Mao tse Tung and US President Richard Nixon.
- 1979 - The annual Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana is canceled due to a strike called by the New Orleans Police Department.
- 1982 - In Atlanta, Georgia, Wayne Williams is convicted of murdering two children, and given two consecutive life terms.
- 1985 - Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief.
- 1986 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- 1987 - Donald Regan resigns as White House chief of staff.
- 1990 - Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on five criminal counts for the grounding and oil spill of the Exxon Valdez.
- 1995 - In Denver, Colorado, the old Stapleton Airport closes; it is replaced by a new Denver International Airport, the largest airport in the United States.
- 1998 - FBI arrests Ten Most Wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati.
- 2007 - At the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, a Taliban suicide attack kills 23. Visiting US Vice President Dick Cheney is not injured.
- 2008 - The US dollar drops to an all-time low against the euro, at 66 cents.
- 2008 - In the USA, the Fannie Mae government-backed mortgage company reports a loss of US$3.55 billion for the fourth quarter of 2007, due to increased foreclosures.
- 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.
- 2020 - Triggered by fears of the spreading of COVID-19, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges by 1,190.95 points, or 4.4%, to close at 25,766.64, its largest one-day point decline at the time.
Births on February 27
- 1807 - Birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland, Maine, USA; poet (Hiawatha) (dies 1882).
- 1886 - Birth of Hugo L Black in Alabama, USA; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Alabama), 78th US Supreme Court justice (1937-71).
- 1892 - Birth of William Demarest in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; actor (Uncle Charlie - My Three Sons) (dies 1983).
- 1899 - Birth of Charles H Best in Maine, USA; physiologist, co-discoverer of diabetes treatment (insulin).
- 1899 - Birth of Ian Keith in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Rochefort - The Three Musketeers).
- 1902 - Birth of Gene Sarazen in Harrison, New York, USA; PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 1932).
- 1902 - Birth of John Steinbeck in Salinas, California, USA; author (The Grapes of Wrath - Nobel Prize 1962).
- 1905 - Birth of Franchot Tone in Niagara Falls, New York, USA; actor (Dr Freeland - Ben Casey) (dies 1968).
- 1910 - Birth of Joan Bennett in Palisades, New Jersey, USA; actress (Elizabeth - Dark Shadows, Little Women, Disraeli).
- 1910 - Birth of Peter De Vries in Chicago, Illinois, USA; author (Reuben Reuben, The Prick of Noon).
- 1917 - Birth of John Bowden Connally in Floresville, Texas, USA; Texas state Governor/Senator/Representative-Democrat/Representative.
- 1930 - Birth of Joanne Woodward in Thomasville, Georgia, USA; actress (The Three Faces of Eve, Rachel).
- 1930 - Birth of Rolly Crump in Pasadena, California, USA; Disney employee 1952-96, artist of films, Disneyland attractions, TV shows, parades, named Disney Legend in 2004.
- 1934 - Birth of Ralph Nader in Winsted, Connecticut, USA; consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed).
- 1934 - Birth of Van Williams in Fort Worth, Texas, USA; actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon).
- 1936 - Birth of Chuck Glaser in Spalding, Nebraska, USA; singer (Glaser Brothers - "Getting to Me Again").
- 1936 - Birth of Roger M Mahoney in Hollywood, California, USA; archbishop of Los Angeles (1985-).
- 1937 - Birth of Barbara Babcock in Pasadena, California, USA; actress (Dr Quinn, Dallas, Hill Street Blues).
- 1942 - Birth of Charlayne Hunter-Gault in Due West, South Carolina, USA; news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer).
- 1943 - Birth of Mary Frann in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actress (Joanna - Newhart, Days of Our Lives).
- 1944 - Birth of Alan Fudge in Wichita, Kansas, USA; actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls).
- 1952 - Birth of Dwight Elmo Jones in Houston, Texas, USA; basketball player (Olympics-silver-1972).
- 1960 - Birth of Stoney Jackson in Richmond, Virginia, USA; actor (White Shadow, Insiders).
- 1962 - Birth of Adam Baldwin in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard).
- 1962 - Birth of Grant Show in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor (Jake Hanson - Melrose Place).
- 1962 - Birth of Kory Tarpenning in Portland, Oregon, USA; pole vaulter.
- 1964 - Birth of April Heinrichs in Littleton, Colorado, USA; American women's soccer coach (Olympics-1996).
- 1966 - Birth of Chris Howard; US baseball catcher (Seattle Mariners).
- 1966 - Birth of Pete Smith; US baseball player (Atlanta Braves, New York Mets).
- 1968 - Birth of Mike Sullivan in Marshfield, Massachusetts, USA; NHL center (Calgary Flames).
- 1969 - Birth of Victoria Fair in Jackson, Michigan, USA; Miss Michigan-America (1990).
- 1969 - Birth of Willie Banks; US baseball pitcher (Chicago Cubs).
- 1971 - Birth of Ivan Robinson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; US boxer (Olympics-1992).
- 1975 - Birth of Dana Marie Lane in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA; Miss Wyoming-America (1995).
- 1983 - Birth of Devin Harris; American basketball player.
Deaths on February 27
- 1844 - Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at age 85.
- 1974 - Pat Brady of Toledo, Ohio, actor (Roy Rogers Show), dies at age 59.
- 1980 - George Tobias, American actor (Abner Kravitz - Bewitched), dies at age 78 (born 1901).
- 1985 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (Senator-Republican/diplomat) dies at age 82.
- 1990 - Death of Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (born 1903).
- 1992 - S I Hayakawa, American politician (Senator-Republican-California, 1977-83), dies from a stroke at age 85.
- 1993 - Death of Lillian Gish of heart failure at age 99; American actress for 75 years (Philco TV Playhouse, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Robert Montgomery Presents, Ford Star Jubilee, Birth of a Nation).
- 1998 - Death of J. T. Walsh, American actor (Good Morning Vietnam, Sling Blade), at age 54 of a heart attack (born 1943).
- 1998 - Death of George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1905).
- 2003 - Death of Fred Rogers, American children's television host (born 1928).
- 2008 - Death of William F. Buckley, at age 82 in Stamford, Connecticut; American writer, commentator, host of Firing Line TV show from 1966-99, credited with founding the modern conservative movement in U.S. politics, founded National Review magazine.
- 2011 - Death of Frank Buckles, last American veteran of World War I, at age 110.
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