As we speak is Thursday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2025. There are 307 days left within the 12 months.
As we speak in historical past:
On Feb. 27, 1933, Germany’s parliament constructing, the Reichstag, was gutted by fireplace; Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming communists, used the hearth to justify suspending civil liberties.
Additionally on this date:
In 1942, the Battle of the Java Sea started throughout World Battle II; Imperial Japanese naval forces scored a decisive victory over the Allies.
In 1951, the twenty second Modification to the Structure, limiting a president to 2 phrases in workplace, was ratified.
In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Chinese language Premier Zhou Enlai issued the Shanghai Communique, which referred to as for normalizing relations between their international locations, on the conclusion of Nixon’s historic go to to China.
In 1973, members of the American Indian Motion occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the location of the 1890 bloodbath of Sioux males, girls and youngsters; the occupation would final for over two months.
In 1991, Operation Desert Storm got here to a conclusion as President George H.W. Bush declared in a White Home handle that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated,” and introduced that the allies would droop fight operations at midnight, Japanese time.
In 1997, Eire turned one of many final international locations on the earth to legalize divorce. Divorce stays unlawful in simply two international locations: the Philippines and Vatican Metropolis.
In 1998, with the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s Home of Lords agreed to finish 1,000 years of male desire by giving a monarch’s first-born little one the precise to take the throne, whatever the little one’s intercourse.
In 2010, in Chile, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed 525 folks and prompted as much as $30 billion in harm.
In 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin dramatically escalated East-West tensions by ordering nuclear forces placed on excessive alert whereas Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to talks with Moscow as Putin’s troops and tanks drove deeper into the nation.
As we speak’s birthdays:
- Actor Joanne Woodward is 95.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Raymond Barry is 92.
- Client advocate Ralph Nader is 91.
- Broadcast journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault is 83.
- Rock musician Neal Schon (Journey) is 71.
- Actor Timothy Spall is 68.
- U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., is 67.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer James Worthy is 64.
- Actor Noah Emmerich is 60.
- Jockey Kent Desormeaux is 55.
- Singer Chilli (TLC) is 54.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Tony Gonzalez is 49.
- Creator Chelsea Clinton is 45.
- Singer Josh Groban is 44.
- Actor Kate Mara is 42.
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