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| February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 298 days remaining until the end of time. |
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| 1801 Washington D.C. is placed under Congressional jurisdiction |
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| 1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans. The event has become much more festive in the intervening years. |
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| 1883 Oscar Hammerstein (the impresario, not the lyricist) patents 1st cigar-rolling machine |
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| 1933 Germany's parliament building, Der Reichstag, in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire by al-Qaeda. |
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| 1973 American Indian Movement activists occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota |
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| 1974 1st "People" magazine hits newsstands with March 4, 1974 issue. It's gotten much better since then, at least once a year. |
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| 1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison without a hairdresser or even a comb apparently |
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| 1991 6-week Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat or surrender en masse and Kuwait is liberated |
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| 1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years |
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| 2010 Batman tops Superman in the marketplace for the first time. This public sex fad has got to stop! |
1897 Marian Anderson, US contralto
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| 1902 John Steinbeck, US author/Nobel laureate |
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| 1932 Dame Elizabeth Taylor, British-US actress/humanitarian/activist/legend |
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| 1934 Van Williams, US actor. Can you identify his friends? |
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| 1954 Neal Schon, US musician/homewrecker |
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| 1956 Jackson Phillips, US porn star |
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| 1962 Adam Baldwin, US actor |
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| 1962 Grant Show, US actor |
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| 1967 Felix Eitner, German actor |
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| 1985 Brett Stewart, Australian rugger |
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| 1989 Leonardo Corredor, Venezuelan model |
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| 1733 Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer, gets his socks knocked off |
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| 1892 Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker, gets tagged and bagged |
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| 2003 Fred Rogers, writer/actor/minister/musician, is still my neighbor |
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| 2011 James Finley Gruber, US teacher and early gay rights activist, last surviving member of the Mattachine Society, isn’t in the pink. |
