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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 27th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 27, 1807, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Maine, going on to a career in education and especially poetry, becoming the most prominent American poet of his day. On February 27, 1902, a British firing squad carried out the execution of convicted war criminal, Australian Lt. Harry “Breaker” Morant. On February 27, 1943, a most unusual event took place in…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 26th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 26, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, aka Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, escaped from his forced exile on the island of Elba and made his way back to France, seeking to regain his throne. On February 26, 1903, Michael Joseph Owens was granted a patent for a glass blowing machine, one of five inventions he patented for the mass production of glass objects…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 25th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 25, 1336, the 4,000 defenders of the medieval Lithuanian fortress of Pilénai thought they had no other choice but to make the horrible decision to kill themselves and their families after torching and destroying everything they had of value to deny their Teutonic besiegers the spoils of victory and the opportunity to kill or enslave them. On February 25, 1836, Samuel Colt of Hartford Connecticut…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 24th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 24, 1597, the Battle of Santavuori Hill was fought in Finland, the final battle of the Cudgel War. On February 24, 1920, the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (“German Workers’ Party,” or DAP) changed its name to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (“National Socialist German Workers’ Party”, or Nazi Party), with the word “Socialist” being added by the party’s executive committee, over Adolf Hitler’s objections,…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 23rd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 23, 1896, dentists all over the world must have felt the Earth shake, for on that day the Tootsie Roll was introduced. On February 23, 1903, Cuba made a deal with the United States to lease 45 square miles of land and sea for a period of time with no expiration, virtually forever! On February 23, 1903, the United States…