27 Feb 07 - Tuesday
1802 Victor Hugo France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables)
1832 John George Nicolay US, author (Abe Lincoln's biographer)
1846 William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody Davenport IA, killed 4000 buffaloes
1852 John Harvey Kellogg surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry
1866 Herbert Henry Dow pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical)
1876 Pauline Musters shortest known adult (58.9 cm, 1' 11.2")
1893 Ivor A "I A" Richards English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning)
1908 Tex Avery cartoon director (What's up, Doc?)
1916 Jackie Gleason Brooklyn NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)
1920 Tony Randall [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa OK, actor (Felix-Odd Couple)
1925 James Moody US, jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader
1928 Antoine "Fats" Domino rhythm & blues pianist/singer (Blueberry Hill)
1932 Johnny Cash (I Walk The Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Boy Named Sue)
1943 Bob "The Bear" Hite California, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country)
1947 Sandi Shaw [Sandra Goodrich], rocker (Always Something There To Remind Me)
1950 Jonathan Cain rock guitarist/keyboardist (Journey, Bad English, Babys)
1954 Michael Bolton New Haven CT, rock vocalist
1616 Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo
1732 1st mass celebrated in American Catholic church,
(St Joseph's Church, Philadelphia)
1773 Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Philadelphia) (1st solitary)
1797 Bank of England issues 1st £1-note
1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"
1863 Lincoln signs National Currency Act
1869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
1870 Wyatt Outlaw black leader of Union League in North Carolina, lynched
1907 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
1907 US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500
1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
1930 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
1935 Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
1935 New York Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves
1935 RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt)
1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
1936 Military coup in Japan
1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force
1952 PM Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb
1954 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records
1959 Lou Costello actor (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion
1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion
1970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
1979 Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
1984 Last US marines in multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon left Beirut
1984 Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse
1987 1st release of Beatles compact discs
1987 Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
1990 Scott Jarvis musician (Great Expectationa), dies
1991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
1992 Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion
1993 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial
What's up, Doc?
Tex Avery
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