This day in #history 27/02
FEBRUARY 27TH
1700 – Pacific Island of New Britain discovered
1844 – Dominican Republic gains independence
from Haiti (National Day)
1879 – Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin
(artificial sweetener )
1881 – Battle at Amajuba , S Afr : Boers vs Brit
army under Gen Colley
1945 – Lebanon declares Independence
1967 – Antigua & St Christopher- Nevis become
associated states of UK
1967 – Dominica gains independence from
England
1969 – Gen Hafez al – Assad becomes head of
Syria via milt coup
1980 – Robert Mugabe’ s ZANU-PF wins elections
in Zimbabwe
1985 – Mauritania ‘s new constitutional charter
published
1991 – Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat and Kuwait is re-taken by the US
1992 – Tiger Woods , 16, becomes youngest PGA
golfer in 35 years
1997 – Singer Sade (Helen Folasade ), arrest in
Jamaica for disobeying a cop
1998 – Apple discontinues developing Newton
computer
1998 – Britain ‘s House of Lords agree’ s 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
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria ‘s
first elected president since mid -1983 .
2012 – Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million
emails from private intelligence company Stratfor
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1902 – John Steinbeck, Salinas California , author (Grapes of Wrath- Nobel 1962)
1928 – Ariel Sharon , former Prime Minister of
Israel
1980 – Bobby Valentino, American singer
FAMOUS DEATHS
1892 – Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker ( b. 1821)
2002 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b . 1918 )
2004 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b .
1928)
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