WHAT HAPPENED ON 27. FEBRUARY
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George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt. (27. February 1898)

Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg. (27. February 1900)

The British Labour Party is founded. (27. February 1900)

Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded. (27. February 1900)

Second Boer War: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria. (27. February 1902)

The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna. (27. February 1921)

A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett. (27. February 1922)

Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire. (27. February 1933)

United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal. (27. February 1939)

Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. (27. February 1940)

World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies. (27. February 1942)

The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men. (27. February 1943)

The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin. (27. February 1943)

The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified. (27. February 1951)

Soviet Union regional elections, 1955. (27. February 1955)

The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated. (27. February 1961)

Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bombed the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem. (27. February 1962)

The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo. (27. February 1963)

The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over. (27. February 1964)

Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati. (27. February 1971)

   
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