History for February 27

History for February 27 - On-This-Day.com:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - Poet, John Steinbeck 1902 - Writer ("The Grapes of Wrath"), Elizabeth Taylor 1932 - Actress ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?")


Ralph Nader 1934 - Consumer advocate, Howard Hesseman 1940 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati"), Chelsea Clinton 1980 - Daughter of U.S. President Clinton


1827 - New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.


1883 - Oscar Hammerstein patented the first cigar-rolling machine.


1896 - 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.


1933 - The Reichstag, Germany's parliament building in Berlin, was set afire. The Nazis accused Communist for the fire.


1974 - "People" magazine was first issued by Time-Life (later known as Time-Warner).


1982 - 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.


1991 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced live on television that "Kuwait is liberated."


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.