IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: FEBRUARY 27

1814 Ludwig van Beethoven‘s 8th Symphony in F premieres

1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.  Why was the speech so important?  Find out HERE

• 1869 John Menard is 1st African American to make a speech in the US Congress

• 1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st African American woman lawyer in USA, graduates from Howard University

1877 US Electoral College declares Rutherford B. Hayeswinner of the presidential election.  Why was this election contested?  Find out HERE.

• 1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)

• 1933 The Reichstag, German parliament building, destroyed by fire; set by the Nazis, who blame it on Communists

• 1942 Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk and 2 Japanese

1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China

• 1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting US Presidents to 2 terms

• 1964 The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.

1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup

• 1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota

• 1986 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis

• 1990 Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez).  What had happened?             

1990 Final day of the rum ration in the Royal New Zealand Navy
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• 2012 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor

• 2014 Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm

2018 Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Trump, has his top-secret security clearance at the White House downgraded

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