What happened on February 27? There are more than 260 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About February 27
February 27 is the 58th day of the year 2024. There are 308 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 9th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Ingomar, Pennsylvania 15127 sunrise occured at 06:55 AM and sunset occured at 06:10 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Pisces. The modern birthstone for this month is Amethyst while the mystical birthstone is Bloodstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 337 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For February 27
- 380Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
- 425The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
- 1560The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
- 1594Henry IV is crowned King of France.
- 1617Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
- 1626Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
- 1700The island of New Britain is discovered.
- 1776American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
- 1801Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
- 1812Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
- 1812Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
- 1844The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
- 1860Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
- 1861Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
- 1864American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
- 1870The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
- 1900Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
- 1900The British Labour Party is founded.
- 1902Second Boer War: Harry ‘Breaker’Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
- 1921The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
- 1922A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
- 1933Reichstag fire: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
- 1939United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners’ rights and are therefore illegal.
- 1940Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
- 1942World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies
- 1943The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
- 1943The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
- 1951The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1955Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
- 1961The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
- 1963The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
- 1964The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 1971Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
- 1973The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
- 1976The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- 1986The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- 1989Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
- 1991Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that “Kuwait is liberated”.
- 2002Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
- 2002Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair’s handling of the evacuation.
- 2004A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines’ worst terrorist attack kills 116.
- 2004The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
- 2007The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.
- 2010An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
Who Were Born On February 27?
- 272Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (d. 337)
- 1691Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (d. 1754)
- 1711Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
- 1779Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1842)
- 1789Manuel Rodríguez, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile (d. 1818)
- 1807Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
- 1831Hiram Bond Everest, American co-founder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913)
- 1847Ellen Terry, English actress (d.1928)
- 1848Hubert Parry, English composer (d. 1918)
- 1862Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (d. 1937)
- 1867Irving Fisher, American economist (d. 1947)
- 1875George Rodocanachi, Greek-British physician (d. 1944)
- 1877Adela Verne, English pianist (d. 1952)
- 1877Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (d. 1952)
- 1878Alvan T. Fuller, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
- 1879René Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (d. 1944)
- 1886Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)
- 1888Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950)
- 1888Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976)
- 1888Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
- 1890Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
- 1891Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)
- 1891David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d. 1971)
- 1892William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1895Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (d. 1943)
- 1897Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)
- 1899Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
- 1902Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
- 1902John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
- 1903Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
- 1904André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
- 1904Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
- 1904James T. Farrell, American writer (d. 1979)
- 1904Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
- 1905Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1907Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
- 1907Walter Wolf, German politician (d. 1977)
- 1910Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works) (d. 1990)
- 1910Genrikh Gasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer (d. 1995)
- 1910Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1910Peter De Vries, American writer (d. 1993)
- 1910Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
- 1911Oscar Heidenstam, British bodybuilding champion (d. 1991)
- 1912Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999)
- 1912Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)
- 1913Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)
- 1913Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (d. 1989)
- 1913Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (d. 2005)
- 1917John Connally, American politician, 55th United States Secretary of the Navy, 39th Governor of Texas, and 61st United States Secretary of Treasury (d. 1993)
- 1921Theodore Van Kirk, American navigator of the Enola Gay
- 1922Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
- 1923Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)
- 1925Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
- 1926David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
- 1927Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1929Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
- 1929Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d. 2008)
- 1930Joanne Woodward, American actress
- 1930Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
- 1930Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
- 1932Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (d.2011)
- 1933Raymond Berry, American football player
- 1934N. Scott Momaday, American writer
- 1934Ralph Nader, American author, activist and political figure
- 1934Van Williams, American actor
- 1934Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
- 1935Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
- 1936Roger Mahony, fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles
- 1936Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer
- 1937Barbara Babcock, American actress
- 1937David Ackles, American singer songwriter (d. 1999)
- 1938Jake Thackray, Engish singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1939Peter Revson, American racecar driver (d. 1974)
- 1940Bill Hunter, Australian actor
- 1940Howard Hesseman, American actor
- 1941Paddy Ashdown, British politician
- 1942Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
- 1942Michel Forget, Canadian actor
- 1942Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1943Morten Lauridsen, American composer
- 1944Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer
- 1944Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
- 1944Roger Scruton, British philosopher
- 1945Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
- 1947Alan Guth, American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
- 1947Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
- 1949Rosalinda Galli, Italian voice actress
- 1950Julia Neuberger, British rabbi and politician
- 1951Lee Atwater, American political figure (d. 1991)
- 1951Steve Harley, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel)
- 1952Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
- 1953Gabriela Svobodová, Czech cross country skier
- 1954Neal Schon, American musician (Journey)
- 1954Uri Shulevitz, American author and illustrator
- 1955Peter Christopherson, English musician and video director
- 1957Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)
- 1957Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator
- 1957Timothy Spall, English actor
- 1957Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
- 1958Naas Botha, South African rugby union footballer
- 1958Nancy Spungen, American murder victim (d. 1978)
- 1959Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- 1960Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
- 1961James Worthy, American basketball player
- 1962Adam Baldwin, American actor
- 1962Grant Show, American actor
- 1963Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
- 1964Todd Bodine, American race car driver
- 1965Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist
- 1965Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound editor and sound designer
- 1965Noah Emmerich, American actor
- 1966Donal Logue, Canadian actor
- 1968Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player
- 1969Brad Vander Ark, American musician
- 1970Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
- 1970Matthias Lechner, German art director
- 1970Michael A. Burstein, American writer
- 1970Patricia Petibon, French opera singer
- 1971“Chilli” Thomas, American singer (TLC)
- 1971Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist
- 1971Paul Hudson, BBC Look North Weatherman.
- 1972Jennifer Lyon, American reality television personality (Survivor: Palau) (d. 2010)
- 1973Ali Tabatabaee, American Iranian rapper (Zebrahead)
- 1973Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby union footballer
- 1973Peter André, Australian singer
- 1974Carte Goodwin, American politician, junior senator of West Virginia
- 1974Colin Edwards, American motorcycle racer
- 1975Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
- 1975Shelby Walker, American mixed martial artist (d. 2006)
- 1976Tony Gonzalez, American football player
- 1977James Wan, Australian film director
- 1977Ji Sung, South Korean actor
- 1977Lance Hoyt, American professional wrestler
- 1978James Beattie, English footballer
- 1980Bobby V, American singer
- 1980Brandon Beemer, American actor
- 1980Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton
- 1980Scott Prince, Australian Rugby League Player
- 1981Élodie Ouédraogo, Belgian athlete
- 1981Cameron Ling, Australian Rules footballer
- 1981Josh Groban, American singer
- 1983Devin Harris, American basketball player
- 1983Duje Draganja, Croatian swimmer
- 1983Hayley Angel Wardle, English actress
- 1983Kate Mara, American actress
- 1984Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer
- 1984David Noel, American basketball player
- 1984Lotta Schelin, Swedish female footballer
- 1985Braydon Coburn, Canadian hockey player
- 1985Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian footballer
- 1986Yovani Gallardo, American baseball player
- 1988Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989David Button, English footballer
- 1989Shota Shimizu, Japanese musician
- 1989Stefano Langone, American Idol season 10 contestant
- 1991Azeem Rafiq, Pakistani cricketer
- 1992Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer
- 1994Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
Who Died On February 27?
- 956Theophylact, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 917)
- 1659Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
- 1699Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c.1625)
- 1706John Evelyn, English diarist (b. 1620)
- 1720Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
- 1735John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)
- 1795Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Jamapese sumo wrestler, the 4th Yokozuna (b. 1750)
- 1844Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (b. 1786)
- 1887Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
- 1892Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
- 1902Harry ‘Breaker’Morant, Anglo-Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (b. 1864)
- 1902Peter Handcock, Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (b. 1869)
- 1921Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
- 1932William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
- 1936Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
- 1936Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
- 1941William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
- 1943Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
- 1964Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
- 1968Frankie Lymon, American singer (b. 1942)
- 1969Marius Barbeau, Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)
- 1970Marie Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
- 1972Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
- 1973Bill Everett, American comic book artist, co-created Daredevil and Namor the Sub-Mariner for Marvel Comics (b. 1917)
- 1977John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
- 1978Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
- 1980George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1981Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
- 1985Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)
- 1986Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (b. 1929)
- 1987Bill Holman, American cartoonist (Smokey Stover) (b. 1903)
- 1987Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (b. 1921)
- 1987Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
- 1989Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
- 1989Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
- 1990Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
- 1992S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
- 1993Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1998George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
- 1998J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
- 2002Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
- 2003Fred Rogers, American children’s television actor (b. 1928)
- 2003John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
- 2004Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
- 2004Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
- 2005Jessica Lunsford, murder victim (b. 1995)
- 2006Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
- 2006Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
- 2006Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
- 2007Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
- 2007Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
- 2008Boyd Coddington, American automobile designer (b. 1944)
- 2008Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (b. 1929)
- 2008William F. Buckley, Jr., American conservative author, commentator and entrepreneur(b. 1925)
- 2011Duke Snider, American professional baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2011Frank Buckles, last surviving American World War I veteran (b. 1901)
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