TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – FEB 27
1594 Henry IV crowned King of France
1670 Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1700 The Pacific Island of New Britain is discovered.
1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
1827 The first Mardi-Gras celebration is held in New Orleans.
1844 Dominican Republic gained independence from Haiti.
1865 Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children.
1877 US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner Presidential election
1908 The forty-sixth star is added to the U.S. flag, signifying Oklahoma’s admission to statehood
1933 The burning down of the Reichstag building in Berlin gives the Nazis the opportunity to suspend personal liberty with increased power
1939 The Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California
1973 U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can’t bar residents because of color.
1973 Members of the American Indian Movement occupied the village of Wounded Knee, S.D.
1974 “People” magazine begins sales
1981 Chrysler Corporation was granted an additional $400 million in federal loan guarantees. Chrysler had posted a loss of $1.7 billion in 1980.
1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
1987 NCAA cancels SMU’s entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
1991 Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army.
1998 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.
2002 Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya
2014 US Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a “religious freedom” bill that would have allowed businesses to turn away gay customers
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
