152 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 February 1861
(+) Philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, is born in Kraljevec, Hungary.
126 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 February 1887
(-) Composer Alexander Porphiriewitsch Borodin dies at the age of 53 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
112 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 February 1901
(+) Artist Marino Marini is born in Pistoia, Italy.
111 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1902
(+) Writer John Ernst Steinbeck is born in Salinas, California, USA.
100 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1913
(+) Philosopher Paul Ricoeur is born in Valence, France.
100 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1913
(+) Writer Irwin Shaw originally Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff, is born in South Bronx, New York, USA.
83 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1930
(+) Actress Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is born in Thomasville, Georgia, USA.
81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 February 1932
(+) Actress Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Taylor is born in London, United Kingdom.
80 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 February 1933
(x) 24-year-old Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is arrested in Berlin, Germany.
77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1936
(-) Physiologist Iwan Petrowitsch Pawlow dies at the age of 86 in Leningrad, Russia.
Conscious until his very last moment, Pavlov asked one of his students to sit beside his bed and to record the circumstances of his dying.
76 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 February 1937
(-) 2 unidentified women is strangled and stabbed in the head with an icepick by Robert Irwin aka The Mad Sculptor, in New York City, 320 East 50th, New York, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1947
(+) Victim of Ted Bundy, The Only Living Witness, Roberta Kathleen Parks is born in Lakewood, Ohio, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1947
(-) Murderer Walter Graham Rowland is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 February 1955
(+) Musician Peter Martin Christopherson aka Sleazy, is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
55 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1958
(+) Wife and victim of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungen aka Nauseating Nancy, is born in Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania, USA.
43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 February 1970
(x) 31-year-old Artist Hermann Nitsch the Viennese Actionist, performs his Aktion "Abreaktionsspiel" in München, Aktionsraum 1, Germany.
40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 February 1973
(x) The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1975
(x) CDU-chairman Peter Lorenz is kidnapped by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Bewegung 2. Juni in Berlin, Zehlendorf, Germany.
29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 February 1984
(x) Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, in Anchorage State Courthouse, Alaska, USA.
21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 February 1992
(x) 42-year-old Serial Killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka The Pug Dumper aka The Prison Poet aka Jack the Writer, is arrested in Miami, Florida, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 February 1996
(-) Mass Murderer Kenneth Granviel is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 February 2004
(x) 116 Die in SuperFerry 14 bomb explosion in Manila Bay, the Philippines.
Redondo Cain Dellosa later admitted to planting the bomb on board for the Abu Sayyaf Islamic guerrilla group.
9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 February 2004
(x) 49-year-old Cult Leader of the Aum Shinrikyo aka Aleph religious group Shoko Asahara originally Chizuo Matsumoto, is sentenced to death by hanging in Tokyo, Japan.
6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 February 2007
(-) Double murderer Donald Miller is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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