27 Februar

The 27t o Februar is the 58t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 307 days ti come (308 in lowp years).

 Events 
 1700 - The island o New Britain, nou pairt o Papua New Guinea, is discovered.
 1844 - The Dominican Republic gains unthirldom frae Haiti.
 1900 - The Breetish Labour Pairty is foondit.
 1900 - German fitbaa club Bayern Munich is foondit.
 1916 - Breetish passenger ship "SS Maloja"  is sunk bi a German U-boat aff Dover, killin 155 fowk.
 1930 - Bouvet Island becomes a dependent territory o Norawa.
 1933 - Reichstag fire: Berlin's Reichstag biggin is set on fire.
 1939 - Fraunce an the Unitit Kinrick recognise the Naitionalist Govrenment o Francisco Franco in Spain, despite Madrid still bein unner Republican control.
 1976 - The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic declares unthirldom frae Spain.
 1991 - George H. W. Bush declares a ceasefire in the Gulf War.
 1994 - End o the 1994 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Lillehammer, Norawa.
 1995 - A terrorist splosion in a mercat in Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan, kills aroond 100 fowk.
 2002 - Godhra train bombing: A Muslim mob attacks a train frae Ayodhya, Indie, killin 59 Hindu pilgrims.
 2004 - The bombin a Superferry 14 in the Philippines kills 116 fowk.
 2010 - Chile is struck bi a magnitude 8.8 yirdquauk, killin ower 500 fowk.
 2015 - Roushie opposeetion politeecian Boris Nemtsov is assassinatit in Moscow.

 Births 
 272 - Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (d. 337)
 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
 1861 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrick philosopher, social reformer, airchitect an esotericist (d. 1925)
 1881 - Sveinn Björnsson, 1st Preses o Iceland (d. 1952)
 1888 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (d. 1976)
 1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer (d. 1968)
 1930 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, Inglis-American actress (d. 2011)
 1941 - Paddy Ashdown, Breetish politeecian
 1943 - Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazilian fitbaa manager
 1950 - Annabel Goldie, Scots politeecian
 1971 - Derren Brown, Inglis illusionist
 1980 - Chelsea Clinton, dochter o Bill an Hillary Clinton
 1981 - Josh Groban, American sangster
 1986 - Michel Mulder, Dutch speed skater
 1992 - Ryan Jack, Scots fitbawer
 1994 - Hou Yifan, Cheenese chess player

 Daiths 
 1887 - Alexander Borodin, Roushie componer an chemist (b. 1833)
 1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Roushie scientist (b. 1849)
 1939 - Nadezhda Krupskaya, Roushie revolutionary an politeecian (b. 1869)
 1963 - William Auchterlonie, Scots gowfer (b. 1872)
 1989 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrick scientist (b. 1903)
 1997 - William Gear, Scots penter (b. 1915)
 2014 - Huber Matos, Cuban activist (b. 1918)
 2015 - Leonard Nimoy, American actor (b. 1931)
 2015 - Boris Nemtsov, Roushie politeecian (b. 1959)

 Halidays 
 Independence Day (Dominican Republic)
 Internaitional Polar beir Day

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