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GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, February 27, the 58th day of 2019 with 307 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 6:23 and sunset is @ 5:29. The moon is waning. The morning stars are stars are Uranus and Venus. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn & Uranus.
ON THIS DAY IN: 1700 – The Pacific Island of New Britain was discovered.
1801 – The city of Washington, DC, was placed under congressional jurisdiction.
1827 – New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.
1861 – In Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland. Five protesting marchers were killed in the incident.
1867 – Dr. William G. Bonwill invented the dental mallet.
1883 – Oscar Hammerstein patented the first cigar-rolling machine.
1896 – The “Charlotte Observer” published a picture of an X-ray photograph made by Dr. H.L. Smith. The photograph showed a perfect picture of all the bones of a hand and a bullet that Smith had placed between the third and fourth fingers in the palm.
1900 – In South Africa, the British received an unconditional surrender from Boer Gen. Piet Cronje at Paardeberg.
1922 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote.
1933 – The Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, was set afire. The Nazis accused Communist for the fire.
1939 – The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed sit-down strikes.
1949 – Chaim Weizmann became the first Israeli president.
1951 – The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting U.S. Presidents to two terms.
1972 – The Shanghai Communique was issued by U.S. President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai.
1973 – The American Indian Movement occupied Wouned Knee in South Dakota.
1974 – “People” magazine was first issued by Time-Life (later known as Time-Warner).
1981 – Chrysler Corporation was granted an additional $400 million in federal loan guarantees. Chrysler had posted a loss of $1.7 billion in 1980.
1982 – Wayne B. Williams was convicted of murdering two of the 28 black children and young adults whose bodies were found in Atlanta, GA, over a two-year period.
1986 – The U.S. Senate approved the telecast of its debates on a trial basis.
1990 – The Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping were indicted on five criminal counts in reference to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
1991 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced live on television that “Kuwait is liberated.”
1997 – In Ireland, divorce became legal.
1997 – Don Cornelius received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 – Britain’s House of Lords agreed to give a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son. This was the end to 1,000 years of male preference.
1999 – Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new hot air balloon endurance record when they had been aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes. The two were in the process of trying to circumnavigate the Earth.
1999 – Nigeria returned to civilian rule when Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo became the country’s first elected president since August of 1983.
2002 – In Boston, twenty people working at Logan International Airport were charged with lying to get their jobs or security badges.