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02/27/1898
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Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer
Type: Birth
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02/27/1899
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Charles H Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1899
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Ian Keith, Boston MA, actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1899
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Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer
Type: Birth
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02/27/1900
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Battle at Pietershoogte
Type: Event
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02/27/1900
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Boer General Cronj‚ surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa
Type: Event
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02/27/1900
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British Labour Party forms
Type: Event
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02/27/1901
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NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
Type: Event
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02/27/1901
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Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter
Type: Birth
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02/27/1902
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Ethelda Bleibtrey, 100m/300m US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1902
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Gene Sarazen, Harrison NY, PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 32)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1902
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John Steinbeck, Salinas Calif, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1903
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Reginald Gardiner, Wimbledon England, actor (Great Dictator)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1904
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James Thomas Farrell, US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1904
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Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor/director (Innocent Heart)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1905
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Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1905
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Franchot Tone, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1906
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France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
Type: Event
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02/27/1906
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Alexander Matheson, NZ cricket pace bowler (2 Tests 1930-31)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1906
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H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold, English diplomat (S Africa/Tibet)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1907
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Gerhard Alexander, [Veldheer], Dutch actor (Prince Willem of Orange)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1908
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Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
Type: Event
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02/27/1908
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Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
Type: Event
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02/27/1909
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Elisabeth Welch, singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1910
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Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1910
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Peter De Vries, Chicago, author (Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1912
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Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
Type: Event
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02/27/1912
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Hugues Panassi‚, French jazz saxophonist/author (Hot Club of France)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1912
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Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1913
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Frank Allaun, British MP (L)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1913
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Irwin Shaw, US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1913
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Adam Sedgwick, English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at 58
Type: Death
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02/27/1915
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Arthur Gilson, Belgian attorney/minister of Defense (1958-..)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1917
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John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), shot in Kennedy motorcade
Type: Birth
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02/27/1919
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1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"
Type: Event
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02/27/1919
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American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
Type: Event
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02/27/1919
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Lawrence Durrell, writer
Type: Birth
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02/27/1919
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Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, composer
Type: Birth
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02/27/1920
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David Vere Bendall, former diplomat
Type: Birth
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02/27/1920
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Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orch leader (Jack Paar Program)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1920
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Reg Simpson, cricketer (prolific England opener 1948-55)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1920
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Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72
Type: Death
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02/27/1921
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US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
Type: Event
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02/27/1921
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US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
Type: Event
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02/27/1921
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Andras Szollosy, composer
Type: Birth
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02/27/1921
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Michael Fox, US, actor (Quincy, Dallas, Bold and the Beautiful)
Type: Birth
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02/27/1921
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Schofield Haigh, cricketer (Eng all-rounder 11 Tests 1898-1912), dies
Type: Death
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02/27/1922
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Commerce Sec Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
Type: Event
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02/27/1922
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G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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02/27/1922
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Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote
Type: Event
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