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Старый 01.04.2005, 18:14 Вверх     #9
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я родился 27 февраля, а в этот день произошло следующее:
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27 February
Birthdays
• 1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet/writer (Portland, ME; died 1882)
• 1902 Marian Anderson, opera singer (Philadelphia, PA; died 1993)
• John Steinbeck, novelist (Salinas, CA; died 196
• 1930 Joanne Woodward, actress (Thomasville, GA)
• 1932 Elizabeth Taylor, actress (London, England)
• 1934 Ralph Nader, consumer advocate (Winsted, CT)
• 1940 Howard Hesseman, actor (Lebanon, OR)
• 1942 Charlayne Hunter-Gault, broadcast journalist (Due West, SC)
• 1961 James Worthy, basketball player (Gastonia, NC)
• 1980 Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former Pres. Bill Clinton (Little Rock, AR)
• Constantine the Great
• Rudolf Steiner

Holidays
• International Day
Polar Bear Day
• Runic half-month of Tyr (cosmic pillar) begins
• Independence Day - Dominican Republic
• Equirria (Old Roman Cavalry Horse Festival)
• St. Galmier's Day (patron of locksmiths)
• Majuba Day (Boers; South Africa)
• St. Kitts-Nevis Statehood Day
• The Hop (Fairy)
• St. Leander's Day
• Feast of St. Gabriel Possenti (patron of college students)

Events
• Anabaptist "New Jerusalem" began (Germany; 1534)
• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), 1st US passenger railroad, chartered (1827)
• Lincoln gave his "might makes right" speech (1860)
• 15th US Amendment passed ("right to vote"; 1869)
• Saccharine discovered (1879)
• Cigar-rolling Machine patented by Oscar Hammerstein (1883)
• 22nd Amendment ratified limiting President to 2 terms (passed by Republican Congress after FDR; later Republicans tried to get rid of it to allow Reagan to run again but were unable to undo their own knot; 1950)
• Shanghai Communique held between Richard Nixon and Chou En-Lai (1972)
• Battle of Wounded Knee (1973)
• Emergency Powers introduced in Yugoslavia as Serbs attempted to assert rule over ethnic Albanians (1989)
• Kuwait City liberated as 100-Hour War ended (1991)
• Bushnell Assembly of God church received an entry letter from the American Family Publisher's Sweepstakes, addressed to 'God', which began "God, you may already be a sweepstakes winner" (Florida; 1997)
• The wrecked oil tanker New Carissa was dragged out to sea for sinking off the Oregon coast. (1999)
• Tower of Pisa 1st leaned
• Beethoven's 8th Symphony premiered
• 1st American died in World War I
если есть желающие проверить про свой день, милости просим сюда (сайт на английском)
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