History for February 27

History for February 27 - On-This-Day.com
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - Poet, Hugo (Lafayette) Black 1886 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice, John Steinbeck 1902 - Writer ("The Grapes of Wrath")


Elizabeth Taylor 1932 - Actress ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), Ralph Nader 1934 - Consumer advocate, Chelsea Clinton 1980 - Daughter of U.S. President Clinton


1933 - The Reichstag, Germany's parliament building in Berlin, was set afire. The Nazis accused Communist for the fire.


1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting U.S. Presidents to two terms.