1700<\/strong> – The Pacific Island of New Britain was discovered.<\/p>\n 1801<\/strong> – The city of Washington, DC, was placed under congressional jurisdiction.<\/p>\n 1827<\/strong> – New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.<\/p>\n 1861<\/strong> – In Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland. Five protesting marchers were killed in the incident.<\/p>\n 1867<\/strong> – Dr. William G. Bonwill invented the dental mallet.<\/p>\n 1883<\/strong> – Oscar Hammerstein patented the first cigar-rolling machine.<\/p>\n 1896<\/strong> – The “Charlotte Observer” published a picture of an X-ray photograph made by Dr. H.L. Smith. The photograph showed a perfect picture of all the bones of a hand and a bullet that Smith had placed between the third and fourth fingers in the palm.<\/p>\n 1900<\/strong> – In South Africa, the British received unconditional surrender from Boer Gen. Piet Cronje at Paardeberg.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – The Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, was set afire. The Nazis accused Communist of the fire.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed sit-down strikes.<\/p>\n 1949<\/strong> – Chaim Weizmann became the first Israeli president.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting U.S. Presidents to two terms.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – The Shanghai Communique was issued by U.S. President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – The American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee in South Dakota.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – “People” magazine was first issued by Time-Life (later known as Time-Warner).<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – Chrysler Corporation was granted an additional $400 million in federal loan guarantees. Chrysler had posted a loss of $1.7 billion in 1980.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – The U.S. Senate approved the telecast of its debates on a trial basis.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping were indicted on five criminal counts in reference to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced live on television that “Kuwait is liberated.”<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – In Ireland, divorce became legal.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Don Cornelius received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Britain’s House of Lords agreed to give a monarch’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.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Nigeria returned to civilian rule when Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo became the country’s first elected president since August of 1983.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – In Boston, twenty people working at Logan International Airport were charged with lying to get their jobs or security badges.<\/p>\n 2004 <\/strong>\u2013 A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines’ worst terrorist attack kills 116.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> \u2013 Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack<\/p>\n 2007 <\/strong>\u2013 The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.<\/p>\n 2010 <\/strong>\u2013 An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.<\/p>\n 2013 <\/strong>\u2013 Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> \u2013 Assassination of Boris Nemtsov occurs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History Of 27 February 1700 – The Pacific Island of New Britain was discovered. 1801 – The city of Washington, DC, was placed under congressional jurisdiction. 1827 – New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration. 1861 – In Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland. 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