1964 Italy Leaning Tower of Pisa
1964 : The Italian government announces that the Leaning Tower of Pisa was in serious danger of collapsing in an earthquake or storm asking for suggestions on how to save one of Italy's top tourist attractions. The work to save the Tower did not begin until 1999 and was completed in December 2001.
1922 Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution
1922 : On this day, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed on this day. The right of women to vote (as well as the right of women to engage in many other activities) was declared constitutional by all of the members of the U.S. Supreme Court. It took seventy years of fighting and petitioning to make this women's suffrage legislation a reality. Women and men both were advocating equal rights for women as far back as in the early 19th Century. Find More What happened in 1922
27 Feb, 1918 England Hospital Ship Sunk
1918 : A report made from London indicated that hospital ship Glenart Castle sank into the waters of the Bristol Channel on the day before after being torpedoed. According to one source, only 38 of the people of approximately 200 people on board were reported alive. According to one source, it was figured that about 144 of the couple of hundred people on board were still unaccounted for. As of this date, there were discrepancies local newspapers as to the exact count of people actually on the ship before it sunk. That was yet to be determined at a later date. At this time, it was reported that no patients were on board, so the lives lost were mostly ship crew and hospital personnel.
1920 U.S.A. Olives
1920 : According to a word sent from the Kansas Federal Bureau of Food and Drug Inspection, poison olives were reported as being sent. This word was received by Dr. A.R. Lewis, the State Health Commissioner. The cities to which these olives were distributed included El Reno, Alva, Tulis, Henryetta, Mc Callister, Bartlesville, Lawton, Cushing, and Muskogee. These olives were sent to retail grocers, packed in a similar was as they are today. They were not sent to wholesale distributors.
1920 U.S.A. Lee Magee
1920 : Lee Magee, a major league baseball player for teams such as the Cubs, Reds, and the Dodgers, decided to make a go of it in the business world. This decision was announced indirectly by way of a short biography of Magee printed in a local newspaper.
1937 U.S.A. New Taxes
1937 : New taxes, such as a two percent increase in general sales tax along with a local option whisky bill were written into the state laws of Alabama. The legislation for heavier taxes was decided after 14 weeks of debate.
1938 U.S.A. Pontiac Mascot
1938 : A new design was created to use as Pontiac's mascot. This particular mascot design was created by Chris Klein and C. Karnstadt. It was of the theme of an Indian maiden, which was inspired by connections with the General Motors (GM) war chief who was employed in the GM manufacturing division.
1938 U.S.A. Los Angeles Flood
1938 : An abnormally large amount of rain falls in Los Angeles starting on the 27th causing rivers to overflow with mud landslides in Los Angeles, killing approximately 120 people and destroying thousands of homes.
1943 U.S.A. Mine Explosion Montana
1943 : An explosion at the Montana Coal and Iron Company mine trapped and killed 74 miners.
1973 U.S.A. American Indian Movement
1973 : More than 200 members from the American Indian Movement moved in to take the reservation area of Wounded Knee by force beginning an occupation that lasted until May.
27 Feb, 1951 22nd Amendment to US Constitution
1951 : The 22nd amendment to the Constitution is ratified which changes the law so no man or woman may serve more than ten years ( two terms ) of office as the president of the United States. Available as a downloadable image on our Public Domain Images Page.
1991 U.S.A. Video Used In Murder Trial
1991 : A video that was made which re-created the events of a murder was admitted to the court on this day. However, it was not considered substantial enough evidence of the murder that it portrayed. Therefore, the person charged only was convicted of manslaughter, and not premeditated first degree murder, and only had received six years in prison. Sometimes courts still use these videos. However, they usually tend to mean more if used to record an event as it actually happened.
1991 Kuwait Liberated
1991 : President George H.W. Bush declared that "Kuwait is liberated, and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.
27 Feb, 1997 Ireland Divorce
1997 : Divorce becomes legal in the predominantly catholic country of Ireland.
1997 England Handgun Legislation
1997 : New legislation banning most handguns in Britain went into effect helping to make the strictest gun legislation in the world with self-defence not considered a valid reason to own a gun.
1998 Great Britain Women in the House of Lords
1998 : Queen Elizabeth II has agreed to a proposal to end male preference when determining succession which means that a monarch's first-born daughter could claim the throne even if a son was born later.
1999 Nigeria Election
1999 : Voters in Nigeria have elected a civilian president ( Olusegun Obasanjo ) which ends 15 years of military rule.
2002 India Sabarmati Express
2002 : A fire caused by a mob of Muslims on the Sabarmati Express, bound for Ahmedabad with pilgrims returning from the holy site of Ayodhya in the northern Indian state of Uttar P, claims the lives of 57 Hindu Pilgrims.
2004 Philippines Terrorist group blow up Superferry 14
2004 : The Abu Sayyaf Terrorist group blow up Superferry 14 which had sailed from Manila with 900 passengers. The terrorist group had attempted to extort money for protection from the ferry company earlier in the year and failed.
2006 Ahmadinejad has called for the Middle East to be nuclear free
2006 : The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the Middle-east to be nuclear weapons free. Following talks with Kuwaiti leaders, Ahmadinejad said that nuclear weapons were a threat to the area's stability. Having said that Iran was a good neighbor, he reiterated that his country's nuclear program was for peaceful purposes. The Gulf Arab states have said they want Iran to keep the region free of nuclear weapons. Ahmadinejad's visit to Kuwait has been the first by an Iranian head of state since the Islamic revolution of 1979
2006 Da Vinci Code author is accused of plagiarism
2006 : London's High Court is told that the author of The Da Vinci Code 'lifted the central theme' of his bestselling novel from a non-fiction book about Jesus and the Catholic Church. Writers Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh have claimed that Dan Brown appropriated the themes and ideas they explored in their 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. They are suing their own publishers, Random House, which is also Mr Brown's publisher, for breach of copyright.
2007 United States Al Gore is accused of hypocrisy
2007 : The former Vice-President Al Gore is accused of hypocrisy for 'guzzling energy' while he lectures the world on climate change. A Tennessee-based free market think-tank said that Gore's home used more than twenty times the national average of gas and electricity. A spokeswoman for Mr. Gore said he was trying to reduce his carbon emissions by using sustainable energy sources. His climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar.
2008 England Earthquake
2008 : The biggest earthquake ( 5.2 magnitude ) in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Cumbria, the Midlands, Norfolk and also parts of Wales. The epicentre of the quake was near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire.
2010 Chile 8.8 magnitude earthquake
2010 : Earthquake measuring 8.8 magnitude strikes Chile with more than 70% of the country experiencing the earthquake, the worst hit cities are Arauco and Coronel. The death toll exceeds 600 with many more injuries. The quake left more than two million homeless as 500,000 houses are uninhabitable. The earthquake set off Tsunami warnings for 53 countries ranging from the United States to Japan.
2011 Bolivia Mudslides and Flooding in La Paz
2011 : Torrential rains in the Bolivian city of La Paz caused the destruction of over three hundred houses through landslides and flooding. Continued rains in the city caused some of the worst landslides the mountainside city had seen in recent history and left over ten thousand people homeless.
2012 Bin Laden Compound Destroyed in Pakistan
2012 : Pakistan has demolished the compound where Osama Bin Laden was killed by US forces in May of 2011. No reasons were given for the demolition but it is likely that the authorities did not want it to be turned into a shrine for the al-Queda leader.
2013 American Pianist Dies
2013 : Classical pianist Van Cliburn died at the age of seventy-eight at his home in Fort Worth, Texas. Cliburn had been suffering from bone cancer for several years.
2014 Governor Vetoes Anti-Gay Bill
2014 : Arizona governor Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill that would have let business owners in the state of Arizona turn away gay citizens if they cited it as conflicted with their religious beliefs. Opponents of the bill argued that it would have legalized discrimination against gay individuals.
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