27 February
Notable Births
Johnny Davis (basketball, born 2002)
b. 2002
American basketball player (born 2002)
Todd Cantwell
b. 1998
English footballer (born 1998)
Chris Godwin
b. 1996
American football player (born 1996)
Ten (singer)
b. 1996
Thai singer (born 1996)
Sergej Milinković-Savić
b. 1995
Serbian footballer (born 1995)
Tomáš Souček
b. 1995
Czech footballer (born 1995)
Mike Matheson
b. 1994
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Alphonse Areola
b. 1993
French footballer (born 1993)
Meyers Leonard
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Jonjo Shelvey
b. 1992
English footballer (born 1992)
Callum Wilson
b. 1992
English footballer (born 1992)
Azeem Rafiq
b. 1991
English cricketer (born 1991)
Chandler Jones
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Adam Morgan (baseball)
b. 1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Lindsey Morgan
b. 1990
American actress (born 1990)
David Button
b. 1989
English footballer (born 1989)
Dustin Jeffrey
b. 1988
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)
Iain Ramsay
b. 1988
Filipino professional footballer (born 1988)
Valeriy Andriytsev
b. 1987
Ukrainian freestyle wrestler
Florence Kiplagat
b. 1987
Kenyan long-distance runner
Notable Deaths
Boris Spassky
d. 2025
Russian chess grandmaster (1937–2025)
Gérard Latortue
d. 2023
Prime Minister of Haiti from 2004 to 2006
Ng Man-tat
d. 2021
Hong Kong actor (1952–2021)
France-Albert René
d. 2019
President of Seychelles from 1977 to 2004
Lee Cheol-seung
d. 2016
South Korean politician (1922–2016)
Boris Nemtsov
d. 2015
Russian scientist, statesman, and politician (1959–2015)
Leonard Nimoy
d. 2015
American actor (1931–2015)
Julio César Strassera
d. 2015
Argentine lawyer and jurist
Aaron Allston
d. 2014
American science fiction writer and game designer (1960–2014)
Terry Rand
d. 2014
American basketball player (1934–2014)
Van Cliburn
d. 2013
American pianist (1934–2013)
Ramon Dekkers
d. 2013
Dutch professional Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer
Dale Robertson
d. 2013
American actor (1923–2013)
Adolfo Zaldívar
d. 2013
Chilean politician
Ma Jiyuan
d. 2012
Chinese warlord (1921–2012)
Tina Strobos
d. 2012
Dutch resistance member (1920–2012)
Helga Vlahović
d. 2012
Croatian journalist, producer and television personality
Frank Buckles
d. 2011
United States Army soldier and supercentenarian
Necmettin Erbakan
d. 2011
Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997
Duke Snider
d. 2011
American baseball player (1926–2011)
On This Day in History
All 56 ›
2019
Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder downs Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig-21 in an aerial dogfight and captures him after conducting airstrikes in Jammu and Kashmir.
Pakistan Air Force
2015
Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow while out walking with his girlfriend.
Boris Nemtsov
2013
A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.
2013 Menznau shooting
2010
An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggers a tsunami which strikes Hawaii shortly after.
2010 Chile earthquake
2008
Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from a detention center in Singapore, hiding in Johor, Malaysia until he was recaptured over a year later.
Jemaah Islamiyah
2007
Chinese stock bubble of 2007: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest daily fall in ten years, following speculation about a crackdown on illegal share offerings and trading, and fears about accelerating inflation.
Chinese stock bubble of 2007
2004
A bombing of a SuperFerry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills more than 100 passengers.
MV SuperFerry 14
2004
Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.
Shoko Asahara
2002
Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport causing minor injuries.
Ryanair
2002
Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
Godhra train burning
2001
Loganair Flight 670A crashes while attempting to make a water landing in the Firth of Forth in Scotland.
Loganair Flight 670A
1991
Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
Gulf War
1988
Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.
Sumgait pogrom
1976
The former Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
Western Sahara
1973
The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in protest of the federal government.
American Indian Movement
1971
Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.
Abortion clinic
1964
The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
Government of Italy
1963
The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
Dominican Republic
1962
Vietnam War: Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
Vietnam War
1961
The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
Spanish Syndical Organization