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Today in History - Feb. 27
From: AP Online
Date: 20070227
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Today is Tuesday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2007. There are 307 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
Two hundred years ago, on Feb. 27, 1807, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine.
On this date:
In 1801, the District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.
In 1902, American author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, Calif.
In 1922, the Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.
In 1933, Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, ...
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