This day in History - February 27

433 Historic Events for February 27
1997 Event Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrest in Jamaica for disobeying a cop
1998 Event 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1998 Event FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
1998 Event 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
1998 Event NE Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges
1998 Event Apple discontinues developing Newton computer
2003 Event Fred Rogers, host of TV's "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" dies at age 74
2003 Event Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison