Today in History - February 27
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274 Feb 27,
Constantine I was born. He became the great Roman emperor (324-337) who
adopted Christianity. [see c288]
(MC, 2/27/02)
425 Feb 27, Theodosius effectively
founded a university in Constantinople.
(HN, 2/27/99)
1167 Feb 27, Robert of Melun,
English philosopher, bishop of Hereford, died.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1425 Feb 27, Moscow's
Grand Duke Vasilii died and his brother-in-law, Vytautas, became
guardian of his son, Vasilii, and daughter, Sophia.
(LHC, 2/27/03)
1526 Feb 27, Saxony and Hesse
formed the League of Gotha, a league of Protestant princes.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1531 Feb 27, German Protestants
formed the League of Schmalkalden to defend themselves against Charles
V and the Roman Catholic states.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.14)(HN, 2/27/99)
1557 Feb 27, The 1st Russian
Embassy opened in London.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1563 Feb 27, William Byrd, English
composer, was appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.20)(MC, 2/27/02)
1622 Feb 27, Rembrandt Carel
Fabritius (d.1654), Dutch painter, was born.
(SFC, 4/4/01, p.C1)(MC, 2/27/02)
1649 Feb 27, Johann Philipp
Krieger, composer, was born.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1670 Feb 27, Jews were expelled
from Austria by order of Leopold I.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1700 Feb 27, The Pacific Island of
New Britain was discovered. It is the largest of group of islands in
the South Pacific, NE of New Guinea.
(HN, 2/27/98)(WUD, 1994, p.962)
1706 Feb 27, John Evelyn, diarist,
died.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1733 Feb 27, Johann Adam
Birkenstock (46), composer and sandal designer, died.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1735 Feb 27, John Arbuthnot,
physician, mathematician, died.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1746 Feb 27, Gian Francesco
Fortunati, composer, was born.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1801 Feb 27, The District of
Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.
(AP, 2/27/98)
1807 Feb 27, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow (d.1882), was born in Portland, Maine. He was an American
poet famous for "The Children's Hour," and "Evangeline." "What is time?
The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the
sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries—these
are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time
itself. Time is the Life of the soul."
(AP, 10/11/97)(AP, 2/27/98)(HN, 2/27/99)
1813 Feb 27, The 1st federal
vaccination legislation was enacted.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1814 Feb 27, Ludwig von
Beethoven's 8th Symphony in F, premiered.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1814 Feb 27, Napoleon's Marshal
Nicholas Oudinot was pushed back at Barsur-Aube by the Emperor's allied
enemies shortly before his abdication.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1823 Feb 27, William Buel Franklin
(d.1903), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1827 Feb 27, Richard W. Johnson
(d.1897), Bvt Major General (Union Army), was born.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1827 Feb 27, A Mardi Gras street
procession in New Orleans was initiated by students, who were home from
school in France. They formed a parade of masked marchers on Shrove
Tuesday, the day before the period of penance begins on Ash Wednesday.
(HN, 2/27/98)(HNQ, 2/9/99)
1841 Feb 27, [Eleanor] Agnes Lee,
daughter of US general Robert E. Lee, was born.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1844 Feb 27, Dominican Republic
gained independence from Haiti (National Day). [see Nov 6]
(MC, 2/27/02)
1848 Feb 27, Charles Hubert H.
Parry, musicologist, composer (Jerusalem), was born in England.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1850 Feb 27, Henry Edwards
Huntington, US railroad exec, was born.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1854 Feb 27, Composer Robert
Schumann was saved from a suicide attempt in Rhine.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1860 Feb 27, Abraham Lincoln spoke
at the Great Hall of Cooper Union College in NYC: “Let us have faith
that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to
do our duty as we understand it.”
(SSFC, 8/15/04, p.D11)
1861 Feb 27, In the Warsaw
massacre Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over
Poland. Five marchers were killed.
(AP, 2/27/98)
1864 Feb 27, The 6th and last day
of battle at Dalton, Georgia, (about 600 casualties).
(MC, 2/27/02)
1864 Feb 27, The first Union
prisoners arrived at Camp Sumter prison near Andersonville, Georgia. It
was designed for 6,000 prisoners but by summer’s end held 33,000. After
enduring the hardship of being held in the South's Andersonville and
Cahaba prison camps, A terrible disaster befell hundreds of Union
soldiers who were being shipped home on the steamer Sultana at the end
of the Civil War. The setting was made into a film for TV by John
Frankheimer in 1996 based on an original script by David Rintels. Of
the 45,000 Union prisoners of war that were brought to Andersonville,
29% i.e. 12,914, died there. In 1971 it became a National Park Service
site.
(WSJ, 2/26/96, p.A-10)(SFC, 4/28/96, p.T-10)(HN,
2/27/98)(AH, 10/02, p.20)
1865 Feb 27, Confederate raider
William Quantrill and his bushwackers attacked Hickman, Kentucky,
shooting women and children.
(HN, 2/27/00)
1865 Feb 27, A Civil War skirmish
took place near Sturgeon, Missouri.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1873 Feb 27, Enrico Caruso
(d.1921), was born. He was the Italian operatic lyric tenor who
excelled in operas such as Pagliacci.
(Internet)
1879 Feb 27, Constantine Fahlberg
discovered saccharin, an artificial sweetener.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1883 Feb 27, Oscar Hammerstein
patented the 1st cigar-rolling machine.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1886 Feb 27, Hugo L. Black was
born in Alabama. He became the 78th Supreme Court Justice (1937-71) and
wrote opinions forbidding prayer in schools (Sen-D-Ala).
(HN, 2/27/99)(MC, 2/27/02)
1887 Feb 27, Alexander
Porfiryevich Borodin (53), Russian physician, composer (Prince Igor),
died. [see Feb 15]
(MC, 2/27/02)
1888 Feb 27, Lotte Lehmann, German
opera singer, was born.
(HN, 2/27/01)
1891 Feb 27, David Sarnoff, RCA
Board Chairman and a pioneer of U.S. television, was born.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1895 Feb 27, Rudolf von Eschwege,
German fighter pilot with 20 victories in World War I, was born. He was
the only German fighter pilot on the Macedonian Front.
(Internet)
1897 Feb 27, Miriam Anderson, was
born. She became a world renown opera singer and civil rights pioneer,
and is best remembered for singing "My Country Tis of Thee" in front of
the Lincoln Memorial.
(HN, 2/27/02)
1899 Feb 27, Charles H. Best,
physiologist, co-discoverer of Insulin, was born in Maine.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1902 Feb 27, John Steinbeck
(d.1968), American novelist (Nobel 1962), was born in Salinas, Ca. He
authored "The Grapes of Wrath," "Of Mice and Men" and "The Log from the
Sea of Cortez." "A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of
his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or
was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?"
(AP, 6/27/97) (SFEC, 6/21/98, DB p.67)(HN,
2/27/99)(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A21)
1902 Feb 27, Harry 'Breaker'
Morant (1864-1902) and Peter Handcock were executed for the murder of
12 prisoners of war in the dying days of the Boer war. George Witton
had his death sentence commuted because it contained serious errors.
Morant, who volunteered to fight with the British in South Africa, was
born in England but became well known in Australia as a poet and a
horsebreaker. In 1980 the film ‘Breaker’ Morant was produced in
Australia. In 2010 Australia sent Britain a petition calling for
posthumous pardons for Morant and Handcock. The petition argued the
accused were denied the right to communicate with the Australian
government or relatives after their arrest and during their trials and
were refused an opportunity to prepare their cases.
(AFP, 2/10/10)(www.awm.gov.au/people/267.asp)
1904 Feb 27, James T. Farrell
(d.1979), author (Young Lonigan), was born. In 2004 Robert K. Landers
authored "The Life and Times of James T. Farrell."
(HN, 2/27/01)(SFC, 2/26/04, p.E1)
1905 Feb 27, Japanese pushed
Russians back in Manchuria, and cross the Sha River.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1908 Feb 27, Baseball’s sacrifice
fly was adopted. It was repealed in 1931 and reinstated in 1954.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1908 Feb 27, The forty-sixth star
was added to the U.S. flag, signifying Oklahoma's admission to
statehood.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1910 Feb 27, Peter De Vries,
writer, poetry editor (Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon)(Poetry Magazine,
The New Yorker), was born.
(HN, 2/27/01)(MC, 2/27/02)
1912 Feb 27, Lawrence Durrell,
English novelist and poet, was born. His books included "The Alexandria
Quartet." In 1998 Ian MacNiven wrote the biography: "Lawrence Durrell."
(WUD, 1994, p.443)(SFEC, 7/12/98, BR p.7)(HN,
2/27/01)
1913 Feb 27, Irwin Shaw, US
novelist (Rich Man Poor Man), was born.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1917 Feb 27, John Connally, Texas
Governor, wounded in the assassination of President John Kennedy, was
born.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1919 Feb 27, 1st public
performance of Gustav Holst's "Planets."
(MC, 2/27/02)
1919 Feb 27, The Bolsheviks
took Lithuania and joined it with Belarus as a single Soviet republic.
Litbel lasted until June 25.
(LHC, 2/27/03)
1920 Feb 27, The US rejected a
Soviet peace offer as propaganda.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1920 Feb 27, The Boys’ and Girls’
Bureau, formed in 1919 and headed by Theodore N. Vail, president of
AT&T, changed its name to the Junior Achievement Bureau.
(www.ja.org/about/about_history.shtml)
1920 Feb 27, The Lithuanian
government offered the representatives of the National Council of
Prussian Lithuania assent to co-optation in the Lithuanian government.
They co-opted March 20.
(LHC, 2/27/03)
1922 Feb 27, G.B. Shaw's "Back to
Methuselah I/II" premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1922 Feb 27, Commerce Sec. Herbert
Hoover convened the 1st National Radio Conference.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1922 Feb 27, The Supreme Court
unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that
guaranteed the right of women to vote.
(AP, 2/27/98)
1925 Feb 27, Glacier Bay National
Monument was dedicated in Alaska.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1925 Feb 27, Hitler resurrected
the NSDAP (Nazi) political party in Munich.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1927 Feb 27, For the 2nd Sunday in
a row golfers in SC were arrested for violating Sabbath.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1929 Feb 27, Briton Hadden
(b.1898) co-founder of Time Magazine with his Yale classmate Henry
Luce, died of a mysterious infection. In 2006 Isaiah Wilner authored
“The Man Time Forgot,” a biography of Hadden.
(WSJ, 9/29/06,
p.W8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briton_Hadden)
1930 Feb 27, Joanne Woodward,
actress, was born. Her films included "Rachel, Rachel" and "The Three
Faces of Eve."
(HN, 2/27/01)
1932 Feb 27, Elizabeth Taylor,
actress, was born. Her films included "Cleopatra" and "Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?"
(SFC, 2/16/97, Par. p.22)(HN, 2/27/01)
1932 Feb 27, The Glass-Steagall
Act was passed, giving the Federal Reserve the right to expand credit
in order to increase money circulation. It separated regular banks from
investment banks. Senator Carter Glass (d.1946 at 88) of Virginia and
Rep. Henry Steagall (d.1943 at 70) of Alabama sponsored it. The act had
two measures. The 1932 act was a bookkeeping provision that allowed the
Treasury to balance its account. [see 1933]
(SFC, 4/7/97, p.A4)(WSJ, 8/8/97, p.A11)(HN,
2/27/98)(WSJ, 4/10/98, p.A1,6)
1932 Feb 27, Explosion in coal
mine in Boissevain, Virginia, left 38 dead.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1933 Feb 27, Jean Genet's
"Intermezzo," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1933 Feb 27, Germany's parliament
building, the Reichstag, caught fire. The Nazis blamed the Communists
and used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties and
increasing their power. Georgi Dimitrov, a Bulgarian Communist, was one
of the accused plotters, but was acquitted. After WW II Dimitrov became
the 1st premier of communist Bulgaria. In 2003 Ivo Banac edited "The
Diary of Georgi Dimitrov."
(AP, 2/27/98)(HN, 2/27/99)(WSJ, 6/6/03, p.W9)
1934 Feb 27, Ralph Nader, consumer
advocate, was born. He was Connecticut lawyer who invented the
automobile safety movement. His 1965 book "Unsafe at Any Speed"
characterized the Chevrolet Corvair as unsafe and pushed for a
congressional investigation.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(HN, 2/27/01)
1934 Feb 27, Compania de Cementos
Argos was founded in Medellin, Colombia. In 1936, the factory began
production and it issued its first dividend in 1938.
(http://tinyurl.com/5rdhj2)
1935 Feb 27, Mirella Freni, lyric
soprano (Madame Butterfly), was born in Modena, Italy.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1936 Feb 27, Ivan P. Pavlov (86),
Russian physiologist (reflexes, "drooling dog" Nobel 1904), died.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1938 Feb 27, Britain and France
recognized the Franco government in Spain.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1939 Feb 27, The US Supreme Court,
in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the
Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.
(HN, 2/27/98)(AP, 2/27/08)
1939 Feb 27, Nadezjda K. Krupskaja
(70), Russian revolutionary, wife of Lenin, died.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1941 Feb 27, Jewish musicians came
together in Berlin and performed Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony. In
2001 Martin Goldsmith authored "The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True
Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany."
(SSFC, 4/8/01, BR p.5)
1942 Feb 27, The 1st transport of
French Jews left to Nazi Germany.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1942 Feb 27, Battle of Java Sea
began. 13 US warships sank-2 Japanese.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1942 Feb 27, British Commandos
raided a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast. The
warrior spies of the Abwehr, Germany's intelligence agency, were the
Brandenburg commandos.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1947 Feb 27, Gidon Kremer,
violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970), was born in Riga, Latvia.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1949 Feb 27, Chaim Weizmann became
the 1st Israeli president.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1951 Feb 27, Lee Atwater,
Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91), was born.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1951 Feb 27, The 22nd Amendment to
the US Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was
ratified.
(AP, 2/27/07)
1953 Feb 27, F-84 Thunderjets
raided North Korean base on Yalu River. A year after leaving West
Point, Lt. Joe Kingston was en route to Korea, where he, like a lot of
others, found himself retreating and advancing in a single day.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1956 Feb 27, Female suffrage was
granted in Egypt.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1957 Feb 27, Mao made his speech
"On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People."
(MC, 2/27/02)
1958 Feb 27, Harry Cohn, CEO of
Columbia Pictures, died of a heart attack.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1960 Feb 27, The U.S. Olympic
hockey team defeated the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw
Valley, Calif. The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.
(AP, 2/27/98)
1960 Feb 27, Adriano Olivetti
(58), Italian engineer, manufacturer, died.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1962 Feb 27, South Vietnamese
president Ngo Dinh Diem was unharmed as two planes bombed the
presidential palace in Saigon. The 1st US national was killed. Although
Diem had shortcomings as a leader, he had led South Vietnam for eight
years and at the time of his death was attempting to deal with Buddhist
factionalism.
(HN, 2/27/98)(MC, 2/27/02)
1963 Feb 27, The USSR said that
10,000 troops would remain in Cuba.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1964 Feb 27, "What Makes Sammy
Run?" opened at 84th St Theater in NYC for 540 performances.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1968 Feb 27, CBS News anchorman
Walter Cronkite‘s commentary on the progress of the Vietnam War
solidified President Lyndon B. Johnson‘s decision not to seek
reelection in 1968. Cronkite, who had been at Hue in the midst of the
Tet Offensive earlier in February, said: "Who won and who lost in the
great Tet Offensive against the cities? I‘m not sure." He concluded:
"It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way
out...will be to negotiate, not as victors but as an honorable people
who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they
could." Johnson called the commentary a "turning point," saying that if
he had "lost Cronkite," he‘d "lost Mr. Average Citizen." On March 31,
Johnson announced he would not seek reelection.
(HNQ, 10/30/00)
1968 Feb 27, Frankie Lymon
(b.1942), American singer died. He was an African-American rock and
roll/rhythm and blues singer, best known as the boy soprano lead singer
of a New York City-based early rock and roll group called the
Teenagers. Their first single, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (1956), was
also their biggest hit. The 1998 film "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" was a
musical comedy-drama with Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon and
Little Richard. It was directed by Gregory Nava and set in the 1950s
based on the life of Frankie Lymon.
(SFC, 8/28/98, p.C1)(SFC, 9/2/98,
p.E1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Lymon)
1969 Feb 27, President Nixon
arrived in Rome from West Berlin amid protests by thousands of students.
(www.historynet.com/today_in_history?tihMonth=2&tihDay=27)
1973 Feb 27, U.S. Supreme Court
ruled that a Virginia pool club could not bar residents because of
color.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1973 Feb 27, Members of the
American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South
Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children.
They protested illegal and discriminatory acts on the part of the Pine
Ridge Sioux Tribal Council. The FBI was called in and a siege lasted
for 69 days with 2 AIM leaders killed. The story is told in the 1996
book "Like A Hurricane, The Indian Movement From Alcatraz to Wounded
Knee" by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p.A19)(AP, 2/27/98)(SFC, 12/30/98,
p.A17)(SFEC, 1/5/97, BR p.8)
1976 Feb 27, The final meeting
between Mao tse Tung and Richard Nixon took place.
(www.nybooks.com/articles/2173)
1979 Feb 27, Jane M. Byrne
confounded Chicago's Democratic political machine as she upset Mayor
Michael A. Bilandic to win their party's mayoral primary. Byrne went on
to win the election.
(AP, 2/27/99)
1980 Feb 27, Chelsea Clinton,
daughter of President Clinton (1993-2001), was born in Little Rock, Ark.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Clinton)
1980 Feb 27, The M-19
revolutionary group took over the embassy of the Dominican Republic in
Bogota, Colombia. After 61 days they were given $1 million and asylum
to Cuba in a deal negotiation by Pres. Turbay.
(SFC, 1/7/97, p.A10)(WSJ, 1/8/97, p.A12)(AP, 9/14/05)
1982 Feb 27, Wayne B. Williams was
found guilty of murdering two of the 28 young blacks whose bodies were
found in the Atlanta area over a 22-month period.
(AP, 2/27/99)
1985 Feb 27, In San Francisco the
Irwin Memorial Blood Bank said that 80 Bay Area residents have received
blood since 1979 from donors who are know to have contracted AIDS.
(SSFC, 2/21/10, DB p.42)
1985 Feb 27, Henry Cabot Lodge
(82), former ambassador, died in Beverly, Mass. He had served 3 terms
as a U.S. senator and ran as the 1960 Republican vice-presidential
nominee.
(AP, 2/27/05)
1986 Feb 27, The U.S. Senate
approved telecasts of its debates on a trial basis.
(AP, 2/27/98)
1986 Feb 27 John Demjanjuk (66), a
retired auto worker from Ohio, was extradited to Israel on charges of
being "Ivan the Terrible," a Nazi death camp guard who had killed tens
of thousands of people. He was later convicted, but the Israeli Supreme
Court overturned the ruling.
(AP, 4/25/98)(SFC, 2/22/02,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk)
1987 Feb 27, "Washington Week In
Review" celebrated its 20th anniversary on PBS.
(http://tinyurl.com/g88rg)(www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/about.html)
1987 Feb 27, Donald Regan resigned
as White House chief of staff.
(www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/87feb.htm)
1988 Feb 27, Katarina Witt of East
Germany won the gold medal in women's figure skating at the Winter
Olympics in Calgary, Canada, with Elizabeth Manley of Canada placing
second and Debi Thomas of the United States, third. Debi Thomas became
the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.
(AP, 2/27/98)(HN, 2/27/99)
1989 Feb 27, President Bush warned
of what he called the "fool's gold" of trade protectionism as he
addressed South Korea's National Assembly before returning home.
(AP, 2/27/99)
1989 Feb 27, Konrad Lorenz
(b.1903), Austrian zoologist (Nobel 1973), died. He studied instinctive
behaviour in animals, especially in grey geese and is considered to be
the founder of modern ethology. He discovered the principle of
imprinting in psychology. His books included “King Solomon’s Ring”
(1952).
(www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0830309.html)
1990 Feb 27, The US Supreme Court
ruled that prison officials could force inmates to take powerful
anti-psychotic drugs without a judge's consent.
(AP, 2/27/00)
1990 Feb 27, Exxon Corp and Exxon
Shipping were indicted on 5 criminal counts for the oil spill at
Valdez, Alaska.
(www.epa.gov/history/topics/valdez/02.htm)
1991 Feb 27, President Bush
declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated," and
announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the US commander in the Gulf, briefed
reporters in detail on the successful allied offensive. Coalition
forces liberated Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi
army.
(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A9)(HN, 2/27/99)(AP, 2/27/01)
1991 Feb 27, In California Jim
Mitchell shot and killed his brother Artie Mitchell at Artie’s home in
Corte Madera. The brothers had produced pornographic films and operated
a number of pornographic theaters that included the O’Farrell Theater
in SF. He was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 6
years in prison. He was released on parole in 1997.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.A1)
1991 Feb 27, Bangladesh General
H.M. Ershad, leader of the Jatiya Party, was toppled in elections. He
was then jailed for the next 6 years for corruption and abuse of power.
The Nationalist Party of Khaleda Zia, widow of General Ziaur Rahman won
the elections and moved the country away from a socialist economic
system begun by Sheik Mujibur.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.E3)(SFC,11/27/97,
p.B5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begum_Khaleda_Zia)
1992 Feb 27, Tiger Woods (16)
became the youngest PGA golfer in 35 years.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1992 Feb 27, William Aramony
resigned as president of United Way of America amid charges of
financial mismanagement and lavish spending. Aramony was later
convicted and spent 7 years in Federal Prison Camp at Seymour Johnson
Air Force Base, near Goldsboro, NC.
(AP,
2/27/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Aramony)
1992 Feb 27, Former Sen. S.I.
Hayakawa died in San Francisco at age 85.
(AP, 2/27/02)
1993 Feb 27, President Clinton, in
his weekly radio address, promised to find out who was behind the huge
explosion at New York City's World Trade Center, a bombing later blamed
on Islamic militants.
(AP, 2/27/98)
1993 Feb 27, Jose Duval (72),
actor and singer, died. He played coffee pitchman Juan Valdez.
(www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/obits-du.htm)
1993 Feb 27, Actress Lillian Gish
died in New York at age 99.
(AP, 2/27/98)
1994 Feb 27, The Winter Olympic
Games ended in Lillehammer, Norway.
(AP, 2/27/99)
1994 Feb 27, A Maronite church
near Beirut was bombed and 10 people were killed.
(www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/lebchstchro.htm)
1995 Feb 27, Court-appointed
salvagers swarmed into Britain's oldest investment bank to evaluate the
remaining assets of Barings PLC after Nick Leeson, a 28-year-old
trader, ruined the firm by gambling on Tokyo stock prices.
(AP, 2/27/00)
1995 Feb 27, Bernard Cornfield
(b.1927), British financier, died. In 1972 Charles Raw, Bruce Page and
Godfrey Hodgson authored “Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich: The full
story of Bernard Cornfield and IOS.”
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1995/misc.html)(http://tinyurl.com/dxlwv)
1996 Feb 27, Bob Dole won the
North Dakota and South Dakota primaries, while Steve Forbes captured
Arizona’s winner-take-all primary.
(AP, 2/27/01)
1996 Feb 27, It was reported that
element 112, aka unumbium, was first made in Darmstadt, Germany, in an
experiment led by Peter Armbruster.
(Econ, 5/5/07,
p.100)(http://newton.ex.ac.uk/aip/physnews.260.html)
1996 Feb 27, A Sudanese military
plane crashed 25 miles south of Khartoum and killed 91 people on board.
The plane was a US made C-130.
(WSJ, 2/28/96, p.A-1)
1997 Feb 27, A jury in
Fayetteville, N.C., convicted former Army paratrooper James N.
Burmeister of murdering a black couple so he could get a skinhead
tattoo. He was later sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 2/27/98)
1997 Feb 27, Legislation banning
most handguns in Britain went into effect.
(AP, 2/27/98)
1997 Feb 27, Divorce became legal
in Ireland. [see Jan 17]
(AP,
2/27/98)(www.divorceuk.com/pages/keyissues/diveire.php)
1998 Feb 26, A jury in Amarillo,
Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who
blamed Oprah Winfrey's talk show for a price fall after a segment on
food safety that included a discussion about mad-cow disease.
(AP, 2/26/99)
1998 Feb 26, The US waived the
2-year-old sanctions against Columbia. Military and economic aid were
expected to follow.
(WSJ, 2/27/98, p.A1)
1998 Feb 26, The US certified
Mexico as a fully cooperating partner in the war on drugs.
(SFC, 2/27/98, p.A18)
1998 Feb 26, Azerbaijan accused
Armenia of launching fresh attacks over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh.
(WSJ, 2/27/98, p.A1)
1998 Feb 26, Three Israeli
soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon.
(WSJ, 2/27/98, p.A1)
1998 Feb 26, Near Tokyo 3
businessmen hanged themselves in a suburban hotel due to economic
difficulties and the resulting loss of face.
(SFC, 2/27/98, p.D4)
1998 Feb 27, FBI arrested
suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati, their 10th most wanted.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1998 Feb 27, The journal Science
reported that scientists suspected an unknown "repulsive force" to be
acting against gravity and speeding the expansion of the universe.
(SFC, 2/27/98, p.A5)
1998 Feb 27, Jack Micheline (born
as Harvey Martin Silver in NY), Bohemian poet, died at 68 of a heart
attack on a BART train between SF and Orinda. His first book of poetry
was "River of Red Wine," and his last was "Sixty Seven Poems for
Downtrodden Saints."
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.D8)
1998 Feb 27, With the approval of
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years
of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same
claim to the throne as any first-born son.
(AP, 2/27/99)
1998 Feb 27, The World Court ruled
that it has the authority to decide on the location of a trial for the
2 Libyans accused of blowing up a jet over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
(SFC, 2/28/98, p.A10)
1998 Feb 27, From Indonesia it was
reported that hundreds of fires were burning in Kalimantan, Borneo.
Most were set by loggers and small farmers. Drought was fueling the
fires and already 34,600 acres were destroyed this year.
(SFC, 2/27/98, p.D2)
1999 Feb 27, Rev. Henry J. Lyons,
president of the National Baptist Convention USA, was convicted in
Largo, Florida, of racketeering, grand theft and swindling millions of
dollars from companies seeking to do business with his followers. He
announced his resignation Mar 15. Lyons was sentenced to 5 ½
years in prison and ordered to repay almost $2.5 million.
(SFEC, 2/28/99, p.A3)(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A3)(SFC,
4/1/99, p.A3)(AP, 2/27/00)
1999 Feb 27, Western planes bombed
targets in southern Iraq and Baghdad claimed that 23 people were
wounded.
(SFEC, 2/28/99, p.A23)
1999 Feb 27, Brazilian poet
Haraldo de Campos (b.1929) won the Mexican Octavio Paz Prize for poetry
and essay writing. His major works include "Chess Game of the Stars"
and "The Education of the Five Senses."
(SFC, 3/1/99, p.E5)
1999 Feb 27, Eritrea agreed to
accept an African sponsored proposal to end its border dispute with
Ethiopia. This followed an Ethiopian breakthrough at Badme.
(SFEC, 2/28/99, p.A23)
1999 Feb 27, Hezbollah guerrillas
in Lebanon detonated 2 roadside bombs and killed Israeli Brig. Gen'l.
Erez Gerstein, 2 soldiers and a reporter.
(SFC, 3/1/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb 27, The $60 billion bid
by Olivetti for Telecom Italia was ruled legally admissible by Italian
stock market regulators.
(SFEC, 2/28/99, p.A24)
1999 Feb 27, From Niger it was
reported that a mass grave containing 149 old men, women and children
had been found in eastern Niger. The victims were Toubou refugees
displaced by fighting several years ago.
(SFC, 2/27/99, p.A16)
1999 Feb 27, In Nigeria
Presidential elections were held. Nigerians voted to elect Olusegun
Obasanjo their new president as the country marked the final phase of
its return to democracy. Also it was reported that some 1,200 soldiers
had died in fighting the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front in
Sierra Leone.
(SFC, 2/27/99, p.A14)(WSJ, 2/26/99, p.A1)(AP,
2/27/00)
2000 Feb 27, Texas Governor George
W. Bush’s campaign released a letter to New York Cardinal John O’Connor
in which the Republican presidential candidate said he "deeply"
regretted "causing needless offense" by making a campaign appearance at
Bob Jones University, a South Carolina school whose leaders had
espoused anti-Catholic views.
(AP, 2/27/01)
2000 Feb 27, Minister Louis
Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam ended 2 decades of bitter rivalry and
embraced W. Deen Mohammad, son of the late Elijah Mohammad (d.1975),
onetime leader of the black Muslims.
(SFC, 2/28/00, p.A3)
2000 Feb 27, Jose Imperatori, the
Cuban diplomat expelled from the US for spying, took refuge in the
Cuban embassy in Ottawa.
(SFC, 2/28/00, p.C2)
2000 Feb 27, In Germany voters in
Schleswig-Holstein gave victory to the Social Democrats over the
Christian Democrats in the 1st elections following the financial
scandals of Helmut Kohl and the Christian Democrats. Heidi Simonis was
returned to office as state premier.
(SFC, 2/28/00, p.A10)
2000 Feb 27, In Germany 3
teenagers of American soldiers hurled large stones off a pedestrian
bridge in Darmstadt and killed Sandra Ottman (20) and Karin Rothermel
(41). The 3 teens were convicted of murder and sentenced up to 8
½ years in prison.
(SFC, 3/1/00, p.A13)(SFC, 12/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Feb 27, In Iceland the Mount
Hekla volcano erupted.
(WSJ, 2/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Feb 27, India claimed that
Pakistani soldiers had crossed the cease-fire line and killed one
Indian officer and 6 other soldiers. Police reported that separatist
rebels killed a public-works minister and 4 others with a
remote-controlled device in Assam
(SFC, 2/28/00, p.C2)
2000 Feb 27, In Tijuana municipal
police chief Alfredo de la Torre Marquez (49) was shot to death by
assassins who sprayed his car with over 100 bullets.
(SFC, 2/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Feb 27, In Serbia growing
numbers of Albanians had fled the southern towns of Presevo, Bujanova
and Medveda and crossed over to Kosovo as Yugoslav police conducted
aggressive searches for Albanian separatists. Belgrade believed that
the 480-sq. mile region planned to break away to join Kosovo.
(SFC, 2/28/00, p.A10)
2000 Feb 27-29, In China some 20
thousand workers battled police and soldiers in Yangjiazhangzi due to
loss of work and alleged corruption at a local molybdenum mine. The
facility had closed last November and in Feb. workers received $68 for
each year they had worked there.
(SFC, 4/5/00, p.A10,14)
2001 Feb 27, President Bush went
before Congress with a $1.9 trillion spending plan that would sharply
reduce growth in many government programs while leaving room to give
Americans the biggest tax cut in two decades.
(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A1)(AP, 2/27/02)
2001 Feb 27, The US Supreme Court
voted that the nation’s health, and not industry costs, must guide
government in fighting air pollution.
(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 27, A new US law took
effect that granted citizenship to foreign-born children of US citizens.
(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A3)
2001 Feb 27, In Borneo government
soldiers and police clashed with each other. Refugees claimed that
security forces have demanded money in exchange for permission to board
ships.
(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 27, In Mexico some 30
protesters were injured and another 30 arrested near the meeting of the
World Economic Forum in Cancun.
(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 27, Rwanda began pulling
back troops from a front-line Congo town.
(WSJ, 2/28/01, p.A1)
2002 Feb 27, Alicia Keys won in 5
categories at the 44th annual Grammy Awards. Train won for best rock
song: "Drops of Jupiter," U2 won for best record of the year: "Walk
On," and Various Artists won the album of the year: "O Brother, Where
Art Thou."
(SFC, 2/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Feb 27, US officials
announced a $5 million reward for information in the kidnap-murder in
Pakistan of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2002 Feb 27, Eric V. Schaeffer
ended his 12-year EPA career with a missive accusing the Bush
administration of dragging its feet on lawsuits against 9 power
companies blamed for a quarter of the nation’s annual sulfur dioxide
pollution.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A9)
2002 Feb 27, Spike Milligan (83),
British comedian died in Rye, England.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2002 Feb 27, In Havana 21 Cubans
took refuge in the Mexican Embassy after plowing through its gates in a
stolen bus. Mexican diplomats found the Cubans to be economic refugees
and requested a raid. A Cuban special unit arrested the asylum seekers
on Mar 1.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.A16)(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 27, In India Muslim
attackers allegedly set fire to a train carrying Hindu nationalists and
58 were killed as the Sabarmati Express left Godhra in Gujarat state.
Hindu nationalists went rampaging and at least 5 Muslims were killed in
other towns. 3 months of rioting followed with over 1000 dead. In 2005
a government panel said the fire was not set by a Muslim mob. Narendra
Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, was later blamed for the violence.
(SFC, 2/28/02, p.A7)(SFC, 6/28/03, p.A3)(WSJ,
1/18/05, p.A1)(Econ, 3/26/05, p.44)
2002 Feb 27, Israeli troops killed
4 armed Palestinians and a Palestinian worker killed an Israeli factory
manager. A Palestinian woman killed herself and wounded 4 others at a
road block in the West Bank.
(SFC, 2/28/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 27, Nepalese soldiers
killed 27 rebels over the last 2 days as part of a military offensive.
(SFC, 2/28/02, p.A9)
2003 Feb 27, The Bush
administration lowered the terror alert threat to code yellow.
(SFC, 2/28/03, A3)
2003 Feb 27, Fred Rogers
(74), who gently invited millions of children to be his neighbor as
host of the public television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" for
more than 30 years, died of cancer.
(AP, 2/27/03)(SFC, 2/28/03, A1)
2003 Feb 27, Biljana
Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who expressed remorse for the
horrors committed against non-Serbs during the Bosnian war, was
sentenced to 11 years in prison. Later this year she was transferred to
Sweden to serve her sentence.
(AP, 2/27/03)(AP, 9/15/09)
2003 Feb 27, In Cuba
America's top diplomat said that the Castro government had seized some
5,101 books shipped in by the US government.
(SFC, 2/28/03, A13)
2003 Feb 27, In Egypt tens
of thousands gathered for an anti-war demonstration in Cairo.
(SFC, 2/28/03, A20)
2003 Feb 27, Iraq agreed in
principle to destroy its Al Samoud Two missiles, two days before a U.N.
deadline.
(AP, 2/27/04)
2003 Feb 27, In Lithuania
Rolandas Paksas became the country's 3rd president since it gained
independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
(AP, 2/27/03)
2003 Feb 27,
Semi-nomadic fighters attacked a village near Nigeria's remote eastern
border with Cameroon, reportedly leaving dozens of people, including
seven policemen and a soldier, dead. Separately a large dugout canoe
capsized on the Niger River, drowning at least 30 passengers.
(AP, 3/3/03)
2004 Feb 27, A federal judge in NY
threw out 1 of 5 counts against Martha Stewart (62). She said
prosecutors failed to prove that Stewart intended to commit securities
fraud in her Dec 21, 2001, sale of ImClone Systems shares. 4 lesser
charges remained.
(SFC, 2/28/04, p.A3)
2004 Feb 27, America's top bishop,
Wilton Gregory, declared the days of sheltering sex abusers in the
Roman Catholic priesthood were "history" as two reports showed how
pervasive assaults on minors had been during the previous half-century.
(AP, 2/27/05)
2004 Feb 27, Bill Lockyer,
California state Attorney General, asked the California Supreme Court
to stop SF officials from issuing same-sex marriage licenses and
invalidate the 3,400 gay and lesbian weddings that have taken place at
City Hall since Feb 12. The justices halted the weddings the following
month.
(SFC, 8/13/04, p.A16)(AP, 2/27/05)
2004 Feb 27, In Bolivia a
prosecutor who handled drug cases was killed by a bomb that demolished
her car as she started the engine.
(AP, 2/28/04)
2004 Feb 27, In Egypt Izzat
Mohammed Hamid, a clan leader in a southern town, threatened to kill
scores of hostages if police should attempt a rescue. The band seized
the hostages during a shootout with authorities who had been trying to
arrest fugitives wanted for drug trafficking and other crimes.
(AP, 2/27/04)
2004 Feb 27, French Foreign
Minister Dominique de Villepin held talks with leaders of Haiti's
government on how to end a three-week rebellion.
(AP, 2/27/04)
2004 Feb 27, In eastern India a
high speed passenger train crashed into a crowded bus, killing at least
9 people and injuring 41 others.
(AP, 2/27/04)
2004 Feb 27, Israeli police
stormed one of Jerusalem's holiest sites to disperse hundreds of
Palestinian stone-throwers protesting Israel's contentious West Bank
barrier.
(AP, 2/27/04)
2004 Feb 27, Shoko Asahara was
convicted and sentenced to hang for masterminding the deadly 1995 nerve
gas attack on the Tokyo subway and other crimes that killed 27 people.
(AP, 2/27/04)
2004 Feb 27, In the Philippines a
ferry explosion and fire killed at least two people, though 180 more
were missing. The Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf claimed
responsibility. In 2008 Ruben Pestano Lavilla Jr. was arrested in
Bahrain and deported back to the Philippines for his role in the
bombing of the ferry which killed 116 people.
(AP, 2/29/04)(SFC, 9/1/08, p.A3)
2004 Feb 27, Sudanese government
forces launched a series of raids on western villages, killing at least
70 civilians and forcing tens of thousands to flee.
(AP, 2/28/04)
2004 Feb 27, In Venezuela clashes
between police and thousands of protesters pressing for the recall of
President Hugo Chavez overshadowed a summit of developing nations, with
at least two people killed and dozens injured. Chavez opened a two-day
summit with the leaders of 18 other developing nations in Caracas,
urging them to reject free-market policies imposed by industrialized
nations.
(AP, 2/28/04)
2005 Feb 27, In the 77th Academy
Awards “Million Dollar Baby” won 4 Oscars including best picture, best
actress (Hilary Swank), best supporting actor (Morgan Freeman) and best
director (Clint Eastwood); Jamie Foxx won for best actor (Ray); Cate
Blanchett won best supporting actress (Aviator).
(SFC, 2/28/05, p.C4)
2005 Feb 27, Iran and Russia
signed a deal that would deliver nuclear fuel to the Middle East
country for the startup of its first reactor.
(AP, 2/27/05)
2005 Feb 27, Iraqi security forces
reported the capture of Saddam Hussein's half-brother and former
adviser. Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, the 6 of diamonds, was No. 36 on the
list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis. Syria captured al-Hassan and 29 other
fugitives and handed them over to Iraqi security. 2 American soldiers
were killed in an ambush in the capital.
(AP, 2/27/05)(SFC, 2/28/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 27, Kyrgyzstan faced a
key test of its commitment to democracy in parliamentary elections amid
tension over the exclusion of a number of opposition figures and
prominent lawmakers. Some opposition figures and prominent politicians
disqualified from the ballot in a country once seen as an island of
democracy in former Soviet Central Asia.
(AP, 2/27/05)(AP, 2/28/05)
2005 Feb 27, Bayaman Erkinbayev, a
wealthy playboy and head of the Palvan Corporation, led 2,000 fighters
trained in Alysh, Kyrgyzstan's answer to Kung Fu, to protests launched
after the first round of a parliamentary election.
(AP, 3/28/05)
2005 Feb 27, At least 15 people
died in a fresh burst of violence in southern Nepal, after communist
rebels lifted a two-week highway blockade.
(Reuters, 2/27/05)
2005 Feb 27, Qatar signed an
agreement with Royal Dutch/Shell to develop a liquefied natural gas
plant. Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil launched their 12.8 billion
Qatar Gas II joint venture to export LNS to the United Kingdom.
(WSJ, 2/28/05, p.B2)
2005 Feb 27, In southeastern
Pakistan at least 10 children died when a bus carrying them on a school
field trip drove off a highway.
(AP, 2/27/05)
2005 Feb 27, Tajikistan voters
cast their ballots in parliamentary elections. President Emomali
Rakhmonov's National Democratic party won the election overwhelmingly
with nearly 75 percent of the vote. The opposition earned only two of
63 seats in Parliament. The EU said "significant breaches" were
reported during the vote, including proxy voting, obstruction of
election observers and irregularities in vote counting.
(AP, 3/5/05)
2005 Feb 27, The tiny Pacific
island nation of Tokelau called for food and medical supplies, and
there were "grave concerns" for residents on Swain's Island in American
Samoa after Cyclone Percy pounded the area.
(AP, 2/27/05)
2005 Feb 27, Togo demonstrators
protested against the new president, lighting flaming barricades in the
capital's streets and throwing rocks at riot police who fired tear gas
to keep crowds from moving toward government buildings. They claimed
the position should have gone to the parliament speaker, a ruling-party
loyalist, who was fired after he refused to return to the country in
the early days of the crisis.
(AP, 2/27/05)
2005 Feb 27, Pope John Paul II
made a surprise first public appearance after surgery, appearing at his
Rome hospital window.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, The US and Colombia
reached a free trade agreement after nearly 2 years of negotiations.
The pact needed approval by the legislatures of both countries.
(WSJ, 2/28/06, p.A6)
2006 Feb 27, US District Judge
Federico Moreno in Miami ordered US federal officials to "use their
best efforts" to help the Cubans return to the United States. Moreno
wrote that "those Cuban refugees who reached American soil in early
January 2006 were removed to Cuba illegally."
(AP, 3/1/06)
2006 Feb 27, The US Labor Dept.
reduced the acceptable lever of workplace exposure for hexavalent
chromium to 5 micrograms per cubic meter of air. The old 1971 standard
was 52 micrograms per cubic meter.
(SFC, 2/28/06, p.A3)
2006 Feb 27, Connecticut state
officials said Venezuela will provide 4.8 million gallons of heating
oil at a 40% discount to households that qualify for state home heat
assistance. Venezuela has also sent shipments to Massachusetts, Maine,
Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Vermont. The Bronx in New York
City also joined the program.
(Reuters, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, Five California state
prison employees, who objected to questionable purchases for inmate
drug treatment programs, testified that they were told to stay quiet.
(SFC, 2/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 27, Experts in a hearing
on the collapse of several fish species in the Sacramento and San
Joaquin River Delta of northern California said that contributing
factors included water exports, pesticides, non-native species and
poisonous algae. Giant pumps near Tracy, which moved water south, also
ground up many fish.
(SFC, 2/28/06, p.B8)
2006 Feb 27, Effa Manley (d.1981
at age 81), co-owner of the Negro League Newark Eagles (1935-1948),
became the 1st woman elected to the baseball hall of fame. She was
elected along with 17 other Negro League players and officials.
(WSJ, 2/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 27, Otis Chandler
(b.1927), former publisher of the LA Times (1960-1980), died in Ojai,
Ca.
(SFC, 2/28/06, p.A2)(Econ, 3/4/06, p.81)
2006 Feb 27, Retired Brig. Gen.
Robert L. Scott (97), author of "God Is My Co-Pilot," died in Warner
Robins, Ga.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2006 Feb 27, In Afghanistan
kidnappers freed one of two Nepalese abducted earlier this month
outside Kabul. The second died of an illness in captivity, and his body
was released.
(AP, 2/28/06)
2006 Feb 27, In Afghanistan
security forces backed by tanks and heavy guns surrounded Kabul's
notorious Policharki Prison as authorities negotiated with rioting
prisoners controlling most of the facility. A government negotiator
said four inmates were killed during the rebellion blamed on al-Qaida
and Taliban militants. Officials had forced prisoners to wear uniforms
following the escape of 7 Taliban inmates. This sparked a four-day riot
that left six inmates dead and 40 injured. In April 2 of the escapees
were captured in Bulgaria and 2 in Uzbekistan.
(AP, 2/27/06)(AP, 5/15/06)
2006 Feb 27, Bosnia's veterinary
office said tests at the EU reference laboratory had confirmed its
first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in two wild swans.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, Dan Brown, author of
"The Da Vinci Code," was accused in Britain's High Court of taking
material for his blockbuster conspiracy thriller from a 1982 book about
the Holy Grail. The court ruled in favor of Brown's publisher, Random
House, the actual target of the breach-of-copyright lawsuit.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2006 Feb 27, Britain’s Women and
Work Commission published a report on the gender pay gap, currently
measured at 17% less per hour than men.
(Econ, 3/4/06, p.51)
2006 Feb 27, British utility
National Grid PLC said it agreed to buy New York-based electricity and
natural-gas distributor KeySpan Corp. for $7.3 billion in a deal that
would create the third-largest energy delivery utility in the United
States.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, In Burundi a
government official acknowledged that rogue soldiers and police
officers have executed and tortured suspected rebels and civilians.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, In China the trial of
17 members of the Three Ranks of Servants church began in the
northeastern city of Shuangyashan. The trial involved the alleged
killings of 20 members of Eastern Lightning, one of China's many
unregistered church groups.
(AP, 2/28/06)
2006 Feb 27, China’s Commerce
Ministry said Avon Products Inc. has received approval to become the
first company to resume direct sales in China following an eight-year
ban.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, In southern Colombia
rebels burst into a hotel where local government officials were meeting
and killed eight town councilors.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, In Egypt an official
said a Liberian-flagged tanker, Grigoroussa 1, lost 3,000 tons of heavy
fuel in the Suez Canal after a collision with a quay caused a leak.
(AFP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, EU foreign ministers
threatened to freeze talks with Serbia on its membership bid, setting a
March deadline for Belgrade to hand over war crimes fugitive Ratko
Mladic.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, The EU agreed to
grant $145 million in urgent aid to the Palestinians before a
government led by the Islamic militant group Hamas takes power, a move
aimed at preventing a financial collapse that could add to the chaos in
the Middle East.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, France began
vaccinating 300,000 domestic fowl against bird flu.
(WSJ, 2/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 27, India's PM Singh
outlined a formula on how the government will separate its civilian and
military nuclear programs as it tries to clinch a landmark nuclear deal
with Washington.
(Reuters, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, Iranian Foreign
Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told Japan that Tehran would not suspend
its atomic research and development, casting doubt over whether a
Russian agreement would defuse a crisis over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, A top Sunni figure
said Sunni Arabs are ready to end their boycott of talks to form a new
government if rival Shiites return mosques seized in last week's
sectarian attacks and meet other unspecified demands. A daytime curfew
ended in Baghdad.
(AP, 2/27/06)(WSJ, 2/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Feb 27, A security official
said Iraqi Interior Ministry forces had captured Abu al-Farouq, a top
aide to al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, along with 5
other operatives during a raid in al-Bakr in western Iraq.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, A US soldier was
killed by small-arms fire west of Baghdad. At least 2,292 members of
the US military have died since the war began, according to an AP
count. Iraqi officials reported 36 people killed in violence that
included a fierce gunbattle between Iraqi commandos and insurgents
southeast of the capital.
(AP, 2/28/06)
2006 Feb 27, Israel said it will
not hold peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas because
he is powerless to enforce agreements while the Islamic militant group
Hamas controls his government.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, Nippon Sheet Glass
Co., Japan's second biggest sheet glass maker, said that it will pay
about $3 billion for the remaining 80 percent stake in Britain's
Pilkington PLC, which makes glass for cars and buildings.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, Omurbek Tekebayev,
the speaker of Kyrgyzstan's parliament, stepped down in response to the
president's criticism of lawmakers. Tekebayev had submitted his
resignation on Feb. 10 after saying that President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
"should go hang himself if he is a man."
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, In the Netherlands
the International Court of Justice heard arguments by Bosnia accusing
Serbia of genocide, the first time a state has faced trial for
humanity's worst crime.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, A lab official said
Niger has become the second African country with confirmed cases of the
deadly H5N1 bird flu strain.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, In southwestern
Pakistan a bomb explosion on a railroad track derailed a passenger
train shortly after it was attacked by gunmen.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2006 Feb 27, In the Philippines
police filed charges of rebellion against 16 people suspected of
plotting to overthrow President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, as dozens of
protesters attempted to storm the legislature. Among those charged were
former opposition Sen. Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan, a veteran of past
coup attempts in the 1990s, five members of the House of
Representatives, a communist rebel leader and some soldiers. In 2009 a
military tribunal acquitted 11 officers of plotting the foiled coup.
The defendants were among a total of 28 military officers who were
detained following the alleged plan to force Arroyo from power.
(AP, 2/27/06)(AP, 10/15/09)
2006 Feb 27, Saudi security forces
in Riyadh shot dead five suspected terrorists believed to be involved
in a foiled attack on the world's biggest oil processing complex. A
sixth suspect was arrested. Fahd Faraaj al-Juwair, the leader of
al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia, and two men who helped attack the world's
largest oil-processing complex were among five militants killed during
the police raids.
(AP, 2/27/06)(AP, 2/28/06)
2006 Feb 27, Taiwanese President
Chen Shui-bian terminated the governmental committee responsible for
unifying with rival China, significantly deepening tensions with
Beijing and defying opinion in Washington. The National Unification
Council had been inactive for 6 years.
(AP, 2/27/06)(Econ, 3/4/06, p.38)
2006 Feb 27, In Yemen a firing
squad executed Abed Abdul Razak Kamel, an Islamic militant who killed
three American missionaries in a south Yemen hospital in 2002.
(AP, 2/27/06)
2007 Feb 27, The Dow Jones
industrial average dropped 416.02 points, the worst drop since the 2001
terrorist attacks.
(AP, 2/27/08)
2007 Feb 27, Chicago’s Mayor Daly
won a 6th term despite a City Hall corruption scandal.
(WSJ, 2/28/07, p.A1)
2007 Feb 27, CompUSA said it will
close 126 retail stores by the end of May. The restructure would leave
103 stores and include a $440 million cash infusion from parent company
US Commercial Corp., a holding company in Mexico City controlled by
Carlos Slim.
(SFC, 2/28/07, p.C3)
2007 Feb 27, Federated Dept.
Stores posted a 4.9% rise in 4th quarter profit and said it will change
its name to Macy’s Group Inc.
(WSJ, 2/28/07, p.B3)
2007 Feb 27, In SF a 75-foot wide
chunk of Telegraph Hill slid down a granite and sandstone slope above
Broadway following recent rains. 120 residents were forced to leave
their homes pending repair of the hillside, which could take months.
(SFC, 2/28/07, p.A1)
2007 Feb 27, A suicide bomber
attacked the entrance to the main US military base in Afghanistan
during a visit by VP Dick Cheney, killing up to 23 people and wounding
20. In Kandahar a suicide attacker targeting Afghan police blew himself
up, wounding three people. Suspected Islamic militants captured and
beheaded an Afghan teacher whom they accused of being a spy for the US.
The man's body was found in a large sack dumped by a road near Jandola,
a town in the South Waziristan tribal district.
(AP, 2/27/07)(AP, 2/28/07)
2007 Feb 27, In Brazil 3 French
nationals who ran a nonprofit group that helps poor children were
stabbed to death at their headquarters near Rio's Copacabana beach and
authorities arrested three suspects. The slayings that left one of the
victims decapitated were part of a botched scheme to protect a
Brazilian accountant, Tarsio Wilson Ramires (25), accused of stealing
money from the group.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2007 Feb 27, In Cambodia the US
ambassador said direct US aid to support Cambodian government projects
will resume following the lifting of a decade-old ban by Washington.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2007 Feb 27, The Canadian
parliament voted to end two anti-terror measures adopted in the wake of
the Sept. 11 terror attacks, one that allowed for preventive arrests
and another that permitted forced testimony.
(AP, 2/28/07)
2007 Feb 27, In China stocks sold
off sending the Shanghai composite index down 8.8% as rumors circulated
that the government was considering new measures to tame speculation.
The plunge, assisted by order routing problems on the NYSE, led to a
416 point drop in the DJIA.
(SFC, 2/28/07, p.C8)(Econ, 3/3/07, p.11)(Econ,
3/10/07, p.70)
2007 Feb 27, China’s state media
said scientists in eastern China say they have succeeded in controlling
the flight of pigeons with micro electrodes planted in their brains.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2007 Feb 27, At least 2 Picasso
paintings ("Maya and the Doll" and "Portrait of Jacqueline"), worth a
total of nearly $66 million, were stolen overnight from the artist's
granddaughter's house in Paris. The paintings were recovered August 7
and police took 3 people into custody.
(AP, 2/28/07)(AP, 8/8/07)
2007 Feb 27, DaimlerChrysler AG,
seeking to cut costs and boost sales in North America, said it will
start selling Chinese-made cars in that market and western Europe as it
tries to meet demand for smaller, more economical vehicles.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2007 Feb 27, Iraqi and US forces
staged raids in Baghdad's main Shiite militant stronghold as part of
politically sensitive forays into areas loyal to radical cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr. At the popular Kabab Abu Ali restaurant, a bomb left in a
plastic bag exploded during the busy lunch hours, killing at least
three people and injuring 13. About the same time, a suicide bomber
struck an area filled with restaurants and ice cream parlors. At least
five people were killed and 13 injured. Earlier, a bomb-rigged car
exploded in a parking lot, killing at least two people. Near Mosul a
suicide bomber struck a factory, killing at least four people. A
separate suicide car bombing in Mosul killed at least six policemen and
injured 38 police and civilians. Three US soldiers were killed in a
roadside bomb blast southwest of Baghdad.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2007 Feb 27, The Israeli army
pulled its troops and armored vehicles out of the West Bank city of
Nablus after a three-day operation targeting Palestinians militants.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2007 Feb 27, A report said
Malaysian environmental and residents' groups are joining forces to buy
swathes of forest in a desperate bid to save them from developers.
(AFP, 2/27/07)
2007 Feb 27, Mexico's Supreme
Court ruled that the armed forces cannot kick out HIV-positive members
because doing so is discriminatory and unconstitutional. Mexico's head
of migration pledged to improve the agency's detention centers in
response to criticism that Mexico fails to give Central American
immigrants the same respect it demands for its own citizens in the
United States.
(AP, 2/28/07)
2007 Feb 27, In southwestern Nepal
at least two people were killed in a clash between former Maoist rebels
and ethnic activists. A bus veered off a mountain highway and plunged
into a river, killing at least 13 people and injuring another 25.
(AP, 2/27/07)(AFP, 2/28/07)
2007 Feb 27, The International
Criminal Court's prosecutor in Netherlands named Ahmed Muhammed Harun,
a former Sudanese junior minister, and Ali Mohammed Ali Abd-al-Rahmann
(aka Ali Kushayb), a janjaweed leader, as suspects in war crimes and
crimes against humanity in the Darfur region. Sudan rejected the
legitimacy of the ICC, insisting it would try Darfur war criminals.
(Reuters, 2/27/07)(AFP, 2/27/07)(Econ, 7/19/08, p.55)
2007 Feb 27, Pakistani officials
said police are seeking 10 men, including several tribal elders,
accused of pressuring a Pakistani woman to hand over her teenage
daughter as payment for a 16-year-old poker debt.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2007 Feb 27, Peru's Congress
passed a new law stiffening penalties for attacks on tourists, making
the maximum sentence for murdering or severely injuring a tourist life
in prison.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Feb 27, The UN said Somali
authorities have arrested four suspects in the hijacking of a
UN-chartered cargo ship delivering food aid. The MV Rozen, however, was
still under the control of four pirates who remained aboard with 12
crew members as hostage. Attackers in Mogadishu killed Yusuf Mohamed
Dhisow, the brother-in-law of Somalia's prime minister.
(AP, 2/27/07)(AFP, 2/27/07)
2007 Feb 27, In Sri Lanka the US
and Italian ambassadors were wounded when their helicopters came under
fire from ethnic Tamil rebels who said they mistook them for a military
target.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2007 Feb 27, In central Sweden 2
crowded commuter buses collided on a slippery road, killing six people
and injuring nearly 50.
(AP, 2/27/07)
2007 Feb 27, Pridiyathorn
Devakula, Thailand’s finance minister and deputy prime minister, quit.
(Econ, 3/3/07, p.49)
2008 Feb 27, US National
Intelligence Director Michael McConnell said told a Senate committee in
Washington that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government controls
just 30% of the country. The resurgent Taliban controls 10-11% of the
country, while local tribes control the rest. The Afghan Defense
Ministry soon replied saying: "All Afghan people know that in the 34
provinces of Afghanistan and in more than 360 districts ... the
government has control." A remote-controlled bomb hit a civilian
vehicle in eastern Khost province, killing the driver and wounding six
people. A militant ambush of an opium poppy eradication force in
Helmand province sparked clashes that left 25 Taliban fighters and a
policeman dead.
(AP, 2/27/08)(AP, 2/28/08)
2008 Feb 27, The euro finished
above $1.50 for the first time after US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke’s testimony supported market expectations of another US rate
cut.
(WSJ, 2/28/08, p.C2)
2008 Feb 27, The annual TED
conference opened for a 4-day session in Monterey, Ca.
(SFC, 2/28/08, p.A1)
2008 Feb 27, William F. Buckley
(b.1925), conservative author of over 50 books and editor of the
National Review, died at his home in Connecticut.
(AP, 2/27/08)(SFC, 2/28/08, p.A1)
2008 Feb 27, Boyd Coddington (63),
car-building legend, died in southern California. His
testosterone-injected cable TV reality show "American Hot Rod"
introduced the nation to the West Coast hot rod guru.
(AP, 2/28/08)
2008 Feb 27, In Chile a small
police plane crashed at a sports field in Chile's capital, killing all
six aboard and five on the ground.
(AP, 2/27/08)
2008 Feb 27, In China an early
morning factory fire left 15 people dead and three others severely
wounded in Shenzhen.
(AP, 2/27/08)
2008 Feb 27, The EU fined
Microsoft Corp. $1.3 billion for charging rivals too much for software
information. The fine is the largest ever for a single company and the
first time the EU has penalized a business for failing to obey an
antitrust order.
(AP, 2/27/08)
2008 Feb 27, French ambassador
Bernard Bajolet said France has handed Algeria details of radioactive
leaks from nuclear tests in the Algerian desert in the 1960s and should
have acted earlier to clean up the damage.
(Reuters, 2/27/08)
2008 Feb 27, Germany's highest
court found that government surveillance of personal computers violates
the individual right to privacy. German investigators said this will
restrict their ability to pursue terrorists.
(AP, 2/27/08)
2008 Feb 27, The German luxury
carmaker BMW said that a restructuring plan aimed at boosting
profitability would see the overall elimination of 8,100 jobs worldwide.
(AP, 2/27/08)
2008 Feb 27, Shihab al-Timimi
(74), the chief of the Iraqi Journalists' Union died of wounds suffered
in an ambush on Feb 23. Shiite pilgrims headed to a major religious
gathering were again targeted by extremists when a roadside bomb
detonated near a bus in Baghdad, killing one traveler. US soldiers
killed an Iraqi civilian who raised suspicion and failed to heed
warnings to stop as he approached their foot patrol north of Baghdad. A
young Iraqi man that may have been mentally disabled was shot and
wounded after he ran toward a patrol in Tahrir. Jar Allah, also known
as Abu Yasir al-Saudi, and another Saudi known only as Hamdan, were
both killed in Mosul by a guided missile fired from a military
helicopter. The wanted al-Qaida in Iraq leader was responsible for
numerous attacks and including the bombing deaths of five American
soldiers on Jan 28.
(AP, 2/27/08)(AP, 2/28/08)(AP, 3/2/08)
2008 Feb 27, Japan and Israel
shared their concerns about Iranian nuclear programs and agreed to
cooperate to prevent Tehran from going nuclear.
(AP, 2/27/08)
2008 Feb 27, A Palestinian rocket
struck a college campus in southern Israel, killing one person and
injuring a second. The Hamas militant group said it had fired more than
20 rockets into southern Israel, including eight at Sderot, the town
near Gaza where the deadly strike took place. The rocket barrage came
hours after an Israeli airstrike killed five Hamas militants earlier in
the day. Late in the day Israeli aircraft attacked the empty office of
Gaza's Hamas prime minister and the nearby Interior Ministry building.
Palestinians said the blasts killed a baby and wounded two dozen people
in the surrounding area.
(AP, 2/27/08)(AP, 2/27/08)
2008 Feb 27, In Singapore Mas
Selamat bin Kastari, an alleged leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant
network, escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Centre. He was accused
of planning to hijack a plane and crash it into the city's Changi
Airport.
(AFP, 2/28/08)
2008 Feb 27, Spanish judges
acquitted 20 Islamic terror suspects of the most serious charges in an
alleged plot to blow up a court, but convicted them of lesser offenses.
(AP, 2/27/08)
2008 Feb 27, In Sudan unidentified
gunmen attacked a village in Darfur, killing about 20 civilians. A
Darfur rebel group blamed pro-government militiamen for the dawn raid.
(AP, 2/28/08)
2008 Feb 27, Turkey said the death
toll for rebels reached 230 during the operation in northern Iraq that
began last week. The death toll for soldiers stood at 24. Troops killed
77 Kurdish rebels in night-long clashes with 5 Turkish soldiers killed.
(AP, 2/27/08)
2008 Feb 27, Two Venezuelan
helicopters left for Colombia on a mission to pick up four hostages
held by rebels for more than six years. Rebels turned over four
ex-lawmakers to representatives from Venezuela in the same region where
they released two others on Jan 10.
(AP, 2/27/08)(AP, 2/28/08)
2008 Feb 27, The WHO confirmed the
first urban cases of yellow fever in Latin America in 60 years.
(WSJ, 2/28/08, p.A1)
2009 Feb 27, President Barack
Obama outlined his plan for withdrawing combat troops from Iraq by Aug.
31, 2010.
(AP, 2/28/09)
2009 Feb 27, The US government
said it will exchange up to $25 billion in emergency bailout money it
provided Citigroup Inc. for as much as a 36% equity stake in the
struggling bank. The deal is contingent on private investors also
agreeing to a similar swap. A Commerce Dept. report said the US GDP had
declined 6.2% in the 4th quarter of 2008.
(AP, 2/27/09)(WSJ, 2/28/09, p.A1)
2009 Feb 27, California’s Gov.
Schwarzenegger declared a statewide drought emergency.
(SFC, 2/28/09, p.A1)
2009 Feb 27, San Francisco handed
out pink slips to 262 city employees, with most cuts coming from the
Recreation and park Dept., the Human Services Agency, and the Dept. of
Public Works.
(SFC, 2/28/09, p.B1)
2009 Feb 27, Two members of the
Final Exit Network appeared in a Maryland court and waived an
extradition hearing on charges they aided the suicide of a 58-year-old
Georgia man who suffered for years from cancer of the throat and mouth.
(AP, 2/27/09)
2009 Feb 27, New Mexico
authorities said they have recovered bones from 13 victims at a desert
site west of Albuquerque. 2 victims were identified as prostitutes
reported missing in 2004.
(SFC, 2/28/09, p.A4)
2009 Feb 27, Alan Landers (68),
ex-smoker and former face for Winston cigarette advertising, died of
tonsillar cancer.
(Econ, 3/14/09, p.88)
2009 Feb 27, In Argentina a new
rule took effect in which members of the armed forces, related to
crimes under the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, will be tried by
civil courts rather than military tribunals.
(SFC, 2/28/09, p.A2)
2009 Feb 27, In China US Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense David Sedney began talks with a
delegation led by Maj. Gen. Qian Lihua, the Chinese Defense Ministry's
head of foreign affairs, marked a resumption of military consultations
after a half-year suspension.
(AP, 2/28/09)
2009 Feb 27, A Tibetan monk, in
his late 20s, was shot after dousing himself with petrol and setting
himself alight in the Tibetan-populated town of Aba in China's Sichuan
province. Police put out the fire, and the man was taken to hospital
with burn injuries to his neck and head.
(AFP, 2/28/09)
2009 Feb 27, Leading international
financial institutions said Eastern Europe's struggling banks will
receive euro24.5 billion ($31.1 billion) worth of emergency help to
shore up their battered finances. Regional leaders were scheduled to
meet this weekend. The Hungarian, Polish and Czech currencies
strengthened on the news of the aid package.
(AP, 2/27/09)
2009 Feb 27, The French film
industry awarded the best film Cesar to Martin Provost's "Seraphine."
Yolande Moreau, who plays Seraphine, won in the 34th annual Cesar
awards best actress category for her portrayal of the dimwitted maid
whose talents as a painter were discovered by a German art collector on
the eve of World War I. The Cesar for best actor went to Vincent Cassel
in "Mesrine," a story based on the real life of a gangster.
(AP, 2/2709)
2009 Feb 27, Unions in Guadeloupe
scored a victory in getting a deal to raise some workers' salaries, but
said they will not end a general strike now concluding its sixth week.
(AP, 2/27/09)
2009 Feb 27, In Ireland the family
of banker Shane Travers was freed uninjured after he delivered millions
of euros stolen from his own branch. A gang had taken his family
hostage and threatened to kill them unless he cooperated. Irish media
put the amount at euro7 million ($9 million). The next day police
recovered millions in stolen cash and interrogated seven suspected
robbers.
(AP, 2/27/09)(AP, 2/28/09)(SFC, 2/28/09, p.A2)
2009 Feb 27, In Israel Benjamin
Netanyahu failed to persuade his centrist rival, Tzipi Livni, to join
him in a broad coalition, increasing the likelihood that Israel's next
government will be an alliance of hawks and hard-line religious parties
opposed to substantial concessions for peace.
(AP, 2/27/09)
2009 Feb 27, A court ordered the
Japanese government to pay 5.6 billion yen ($57.7 million) to
compensate people whose lives are disrupted by the noise of warplanes
at a US air base on the southern island of Okinawa. The Fukuoka High
Court ruling doubled the 2.8 million yen compensation awarded in 2005
to the people living around Kadena Air Base, and upheld the appeals of
5,540 residents.
(AP, 2/27/09)
2009 Feb 27, In Pakistan police
fought running battles with supporters of former PM Nawaz Sharif near
Islamabad as protests against a court order barring him from elected
office continued for a third day.
(AP, 2/27/09)
2009 Feb 27, Researchers in Peru
said an unusually intact fossilized skull of a pelagornithid, a giant,
bony-toothed seabird that lived up to 10 million years ago, had been
found in the in the Pisco Formation, a coastal rock bed south of the
capital, Lima, known for yielding fossils of whales, dolphins, turtles
and other marine life dating as far back as 14 million years.
(AP, 2/28/09)
2009 Feb 27, In Sri Lanka
government forces drove deeper into the Tamil Tigers' dwindling
stronghold, confining the rebel group that once controlled a vast swath
of northern Sri Lanka to an area smaller than Manhattan.
(AP, 2/27/09)
2009 Feb 27, A UN tribunal in
Tanzania convicted a former Rwandan military chaplain of attempted rape
and genocide for crimes that included killing people who had sought
refuge in a seminary. The three-judge panel sentenced Emmanuel Rukundo
(50) to 25 years in prison. Rukundo will only serve 17 and half years
because the judges gave him credit for the seven and a half years he
has already spent in detention.
(AP, 2/27/09)
2009 Feb 27, The UN Children's
Fund said 53 million children are being targeted by a mass immunization
drive against polio in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger,
Nigeria, and Togo. Some 844 polio cases were reported in the 8
countries in 2008, 95% of them in Nigeria.
(AFP, 2/27/09)
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