{"id":18774,"date":"2020-02-27T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=18774"},"modified":"2020-02-26T17:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T11:32:28","slug":"history-of-27-february-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-27-february-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 27 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 27 February<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> &#8211; Chrysler Corporation was granted an additional $400 million in federal loan guarantees. Chrysler had posted a loss of $1.7 billion in 1980.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> &#8211; Wayne B. Williams was convicted of murdering two of the 28 black children and young adults whose bodies were found in Atlanta, GA, over a two-year period.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate approved the telecast of its debates on a trial basis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> &#8211; The Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping were indicted on five criminal counts in reference to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0U.S. President George H.W. Bush\u00a0announced live on television that &#8220;Kuwait is liberated.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; In Ireland, divorce became legal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; Don Cornelius received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Britain&#8217;s House of Lords agreed to give a monarch&#8217;s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son. This was the end to 1,000 years of male preference.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new hot air balloon endurance record when they had been aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes. The two were in the process of trying to circumnavigate the Earth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; Nigeria returned to civilian rule when Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo became the country&#8217;s first elected president since August of 1983.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; In Boston, twenty people working at Logan International Airport were charged with lying to get their jobs or security badges.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A bombing of a\u00a0Superferry\u00a0by\u00a0Abu Sayyaf\u00a0in the\u00a0Philippines&#8217; worst terrorist attack kills 116.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult\u00a0Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995\u00a0Tokyo subway sarin attack<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Chinese Correction: The\u00a0Shanghai Stock Exchange\u00a0falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An\u00a0earthquake\u00a0measuring 8.8 on the\u00a0moment magnitude scale\u00a0strikes central parts of\u00a0Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami that struck Hawaii shortly after.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a\u00a0shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Assassination of Boris Nemtsov\u00a0occurs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Josh Groban, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Natalie Grandin, English-South African tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0\u00c9lodie Ou\u00e9draogo, Belgian sprinter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ali Bastian, English actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Pat Richards, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Bruno Soares, a Brazilian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Devin Harris, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kate Mara, American actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0An\u00edbal S\u00e1nchez, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lotta Schelin, Swedish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Akseli Kokkonen, Norwegian ski jumper<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Braydon Coburn, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Vladislav Kulik, Ukrainian-Russian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Asami Abe, Japanese singer, and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Thiago Neves, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brett Stewart, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Yovani Gallardo, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jonathan Moreira, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sandeep Singh, Indian field hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Scott Davies, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Bridie Kean<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0Australian\u00a0wheelchair basketball\u00a0player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Florence Kiplagat, Kenyan runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sandy Paillot, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Valeriy Andriytsev, Ukrainian wrestler<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Maximiliano Moralez, the Argentinian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Iain Ramsay, Australian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0David Button, English footballer, goalkeeper<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lloyd Rigby, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Elijah Taylor, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Azeem Rafiq, Pakistani cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ty Dillon, American race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Meyers Leonard, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Filip Krajinovi\u0107, a Serbian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ioannis Potouridis, Greek footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Laura Gulbe, a Latvian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Todd Cantwell, English footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 27 February 1981 &#8211; Chrysler Corporation was granted an additional $400 million in federal loan guarantees. Chrysler had posted a loss of $1.7 billion in 1980. 1982 &#8211; Wayne B. 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