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Events on February 27

• 1848 The spark of the French February Revolution spreads to the Grand Duchy of Baden and triggers the Baden Revolution: At the People's Assembly in Mannheim, a petition with four demands to the government is adopted.
• 1879 In Baltimore, Professors Constantin Fahlberg and Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins University inform about the discovery of the sweetener saccharin.
• 1900 After a dispute with the management of MTV Munich of 1879, eleven football players split off and found FC Bayern Munich.
• 1925 The NSDAP is re-founded and organized throughout Germany at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. Adolf Hitler makes his first appearance after his imprisonment.
• 1933 The Reichstag building in Berlin is severely damaged by a major fire. Despite a lack of evidence, Marinus van der Lubbe and other young communists are arrested as suspected arsonists in connection with the Reichstag fire.
• 1945 During the heaviest air raid on Mainz in the Second World War, almost 80% of the city is destroyed.
• 1953 Through the London Debt Agreement, the Federal Republic of Germany assumes the foreign debts of the Reich dating from the First World War.
• 1955 After a marathon session, the German Bundestag accepts the Paris Treaties, which end the Occupation Statute of West Germany.
• 1975 Three days before the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives, a commando unit of the City Guerrilla Movement 2 June kidnaps the CDU lead candidate Peter Lorenz.
• 1992 The Austrian writer and criminal Jack Unterweger is arrested in Miami by FBI officers. He is wanted on suspicion of having committed multiple murders.
• 2005 The Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles. Clint Eastwood and his film Million Dollar Baby are the big winners.
• 2014 Russian troops land on the Crimea, leading to its annexation on March 18.

Born on February 27

• 1859 Bertha Pappenheim, Austrian-German women's rights activist and social activist
• 1861 Rudolf Steiner, Austrian esotericist and philosopher, founder of anthroposophy
• 1910 Wolfgang Preiss, German actor
• 1911 Heinz Starke, German politician
• 1930 Joanne Woodward, American actress
• 1940 Friedel Rausch, German football player and coach
• 1951 Steve Harley, British singer and songwriter
• 1980 Chelsea Clinton, American author
• 1980 Kathrin Lehmann, German-Swiss ice hockey and football player
• 1981 Stefanie Böhler, German cross-country skier

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „27. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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