Daily Calendar for Thursday, February 27, 2025

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet) – 1807
John Steinbeck (novelist) – 1902
Elizabeth Taylor (actress) – 1932
Howard Hesseman (actor) – 1940
Donal Logue (actor) – 1966
Chelsea Clinton (daughter of U.S. President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton) – 1980
Josh Groban (singer) – 1981

Lillian Gish (actress) – 1993
Spike Milligan (comedian) – 2002
Fred Rogers (host of the PBS children’s show, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood) – 2003
William F. Buckley Jr. (writer & founder of National Review) – 2008
Frank W. Buckles (last surviving U.S. WW I veteran; he was 110 years old) – 2011
Leonard Nimoy (actor) – 2015
Richard Lewis (comedian) – 2024

During the American Revolutionary War, Loyalists were defeated in the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, North Carolina– 1776
First Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans– 1827
Saccharin was discovered– 1879
22nd Constitutional Amendment, enforcing term limits, ratified. (Limits U.S. presidents to two terms.)– 1951
The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, stipulating a maximum of two consecutive presidential terms– 1951
Edwin Land granted patent for self-developing film– 1951
Mickey Mantle signed a $100,000 contract with the NY Yankees. His new salary tied him with Joe DiMaggio as the most highly paid Yankee players of their time.– 1963
Italian government asked public for ideas on how to save the leaning Tower of Pisa– 1964
16-year-old Tiger Woods, youngest PGA golfer in 35 years, teed off in L.A. Open– 1992
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck about 125 miles north of London, England– 2008
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile– 2010
Nine-foot tall bronze sculpture of civil rights activist Rosa Parks unveiled in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.– 2013