On this date, February 27, in history:
In 380, Emperor Theodosius made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
In 425, Roman Emperor Theodosius II founded the first university in the western world in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey.
In 1807, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Maine. Es best known for “The Song of Hiawatha. “
In 1860, former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln delivered a widely acclaimed speech opposing the introduction of slavery into the Western Territories and telling listeners in New York’s Cooper Union that “law makes power. “
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In 1899, Charles Best, co-discoverer of insulin with Frederick Banting, was born in Maine. Best, the Canadian-born son of a doctor, met Banting at the University of Toronto when he was assigned a paint job. He died in 1978.
In 1917, women in Ontario won the right to vote in provincial elections.
In 1933, the German Parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, was burned. The Nazis, blaming a communist conspiracy, used the fireplace as a pretext for civil liberties.
In 1945, the Canadian First Army occupied Calcar, Germany, as part of a major new offensive. American planes rained firebombs on Berlin, setting the city on fire.
In 1963, Mantle signed a $100,000 contract with the New York Yankees. At the time, it was the largest contract ever signed in Major League Baseball.
In 1973, 300 members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota. Wounded Knee was the site of a massacre of Sioux men, women and children in 1890. The occupation lasted until early May.
In 1977, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones was arrested at Toronto’s Harbour Castle Hotel for heroin possession and eventually convicted. Instead of spending time in prison for Richards, the Rolling Stones held two CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind) concerts at the Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, east of Toronto, in April 1979.
In 1982, Wayne Williams was convicted of murdering two of the 28 young black men whose bodies were discovered in the Atlanta domain over a 22-month period.
In 1986, former NHL goaltender Jacques Plante died at the age of 57. He is a six-time Vezina Trophy winner and is credited with introducing the goalie mask to the game. He won six Stanley Cups between 1952 and 1963, all with the Montreal Canadiens. When the Habs won an unprecedented five consecutive Cups, from 1956 to 1960, with Plante in net. He recorded 82 shutouts in the NHL.
In 1991, U. S. President George H. Bush declared that the Gulf War allies had defeated the Iraqi army and would conduct midnight operations.
In 1992, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upheld Canada’s anti-pornography law. It ruled sexually explicit material is obscene and not protected by the freedom of expression guarantee in the Charter of Rights. The law had been criticized as too vague. But there were fears that overturning it would open Canada to a flood of sexually explicit, violent and degrading material.
In 1994, Sweden beat Canada 3–2 in the first penalty shootout of the hockey championship at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
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In 1995, Britain’s oldest investment bank was declared bankrupt. Barings Bank blamed its collapse on Singapore futures trader Nick Leeson. On March 5, ING Group of the Netherlands struck a deal to take over the bank.
In 1997, an Ontario court granted Eaton’s bankruptcy protection from its creditors. The 127-year-old department store chain had more than $300 million in debts. When restructuring failed, Eaton’s was declared insolvent and liquidated in August 1999. Seven stores were bought by Sears Canada and re-opened under the Eatons name in November 2000. They were later closed.
In 1997, divorce became legal in Ireland.
In 1998, Alan Eagleson became the first person expelled from the Order of Canada. The former head of the NHL players’ union had pleaded guilty to fraud the previous month and was fined and sentenced to prison.
In 1998, Indiana’s 124-59 win over Portland marked the first time in NBA history that one team scored more than twice as many goals as the other.
In 2003, Fred Rogers, host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood for more than 30 years, died in Pittsburgh of stomach cancer. He was 74.
In 2006, Effa Manley became the first woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The former Newark Eagles co-owner is one of 17 other people from the Negro Leagues and Pre-Black Leagues selected through a special committee.
In 2008, William F. Buckley Jr. , the conservative and commentator, was discovered dead in his home in Stamford, Connecticut. He was 82 years old.
In 2009, US President Barack Obama announced his goal of ending the US war project in Iraq by the end of August 2010 and withdrawing it by 2011.
In 2009, Denver’s Rocky Mountain News published its last edition, just before its 150th anniversary.
In 2009, low temperatures were recorded in Manitoba, with the coldest city, Fisher Branch, recording -37. 5°C.
In 2010, a magnitude-8. 8 earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed about 500 more people and destroyed about 500,000 homes in Chile’s coastal cities. An additional two million people are estimated to have been left homeless.
In 2010, Canada’s men’s curling team (without Kevin Martin, third John Morris, second Marc Kennedy and leader Ben Hebert) capped an unbeaten performance (13-0) at the Vancouver Olympics with a 6-3 victory over Norway in the gold medal game. . ; Veteran Canadian snowboarder Jasey-Jay Anderson won gold in the parallel slalom.
In 2011, Canadian opener Nitish Kumar, aged just 16 years and 283 days, became the youngest player to compete in the Cricket World Cup.
In 2013, disgraced theatre impresario Garth Drabinsky, convicted in 2009 for a book-cooking scheme that ultimately resulted in the demise of Livent Inc., was stripped of his Order of Canada. A federal court judge later dismissed Drabinsky’s application for a judicial review.
In 2015, Leonard Nimoy, the actor known and loved by generations of Star Trek fans as the pointy-eared half-human, half-Vulcan, purely logical science officer Mr. Spock, died of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his Los Angeles home. He was 83.
In 2015, the Ontario Securities Commission permanently banned former media baron Conrad Black and his ex-colleague, former Hollinger International Inc. CFO John Boultbee, from acting as a corporate director or officer of a public company in Ontario.
In 2019, former Justice Minister and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould gave the House Judiciary Committee a chance to “speak her truth,” saying she had been under “constant and sustained” pressure from various officials to interfere with prosecution. SNC-Lavalin, which would have allowed them to avoid a trial for criminals. He said his persistent refusal had resulted in “veiled threats” that he called inappropriate.
In 2019, U. S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced their summit in Hanoi, Vietnam.
In 2019, tensions rose between nuclear rivals Pakistan and India. Pakistan said its air force shot down two Indian fighter jets that crossed the disputed Kashmir border and captured one of the pilots. The dramatic escalation of airstrikes came hours after Pakistan said mortar shells were fired. The passage of Indian troops from across the border had killed six civilians.
In 2019, Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, testified before Congress that Trump knew ahead of time and embraced the news that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Cohen testified that Trump is a “racist,” a “conman” and a “cheat.”
In 2020, Japan announced the closure of schools nationwide to help control the spread of the novel coronavirus. Ontario announced its sixth confirmed case, also marking the province’s first instance of human-to-human transmission. Quebec reported its first presumptive case of the virus in a woman from the Montreal region who had just returned home from travelling to Iran.
In 2020, Saudi Arabia closed Islam’s holiest sites to foreign pilgrims due to the novel coronavirus. The move has disrupted travel for thousands of Muslims to the kingdom and millions more are expected as the fasting month of Ramadan and the Hajj pilgrimage approaches. No action was even taken during the 1918 flu epidemic that killed tens of millions of people.
In 2020, the Senate voted to suspend Senator Lynn Beyak for a second time over letters posted on her online page that were considered derogatory to Indigenous peoples. Senators approved a report through the upper house ethics committee for Beyak to be suspended without pay for the duration of the existing parliamentary session. The Ontario senator was expelled from the Conservative caucus and ultimately suspended without pay in May 2019 after refusing to remove the letters from her online page.
In 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden scored his first big-money victory since being elected when the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a $1.9-trillion pandemic relief bill he championed. The bill, which passed on a near party-line vote, would steer cash to individuals, businesses and states affected by COVID-19.
In 2022, Canada banned Russian aircraft from entering its airspace. Transport Minister Omar Alghabra announced the flight ban, saying the move was taken in retaliation for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack neighboring Ukraine. The announcement follows similar measures in most European countries, led by Britain, Poland, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.
In 2023, the federal government banned TikTok from government-issued mobile devices days after federal and provincial privacy commissioners began investigating the social media platform. Treasury Board president Mona Fortier released a statement saying the app presents an unacceptable level of risk to security and privacy.
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