02-26-2011, 07:33 PM
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February 27th
1807 ~ Birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet (The Song of Hiawatha, The Village Blacksmith, Paul Revere's Ride).
1827 ~ The first Mardi Gras was celebrated in New Orleans.
1900 ~ The British Labour Party was formed.
1902 ~ Birthday of John Steinbeck, Writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1962.
1912 ~ Birthday of Lawrence Durrell, Writer.
1933 ~ Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, caught fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties.
1951 ~ In a victory for freedom lovers, the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, was ratified.
1991 ~ President Bush declared "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated", and announced a Gulf War ceasefire.
1992 ~ Death of S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician.
2008 ~ Death of William F. Buckley, Jr., Conservative author and commentator.
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