• Today in History for 27th February 2019

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    Historical Events

    1670 - Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I

    1865 - Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri

    1900 - Battle at Pietershoogte during the Boer War

    1912 - Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway

    1961 - The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated

    1987 - Donald Regan resigns as White House chief of staff

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    Famous Birthdays

    1850 - Henry Edwards Huntington, American railroad exec

    1881 - Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician

    1913 - Frank Allaun, British MP (L)

    1927 - Michael Butler, Pro-Provost/chairman (Royal College of Art)

    1936 - Chuck Glaser, American singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again), born in
    Spalding, Nebraska

    1937 - Donald MacKay, CEO (Scottish Enterprise), born in Griffith, Australia (d. 1977)

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    Famous Deaths

    1167 - Robert of Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies

    1805 - Stefan Paluselli, composer, dies at 57

    1892 - Louis Vuitton, French founder of the Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned by LVMH, dies at 70

    1992 - Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80

    1993 - Jose Duval, actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72

    1995 - Bernard Cornfield, financier, dies at 67

    More Famous Deaths ¯

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