Daily Calendar for February 27th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Full Snow Moon

Usually the heaviest snows fall in February. Hunting becomes very difficult, and hence to some Native American tribes this was the Hunger Moon.

1770s

• 1776: During the American Revolutionary War, Loyalists were defeated in the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, North Carolina

1800s

• Born 1807: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet)

1820s

• 1827: First Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans

1870s

• 1879: Saccharin was discovered

1900s

• Born 1902: John Steinbeck (novelist)

1930s

• Born 1932: Elizabeth Taylor (actress)

1940s

• Born 1940: Howard Hesseman (actor)

1950s

• 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: 22nd Constitutional Amendment, enforcing term limits, ratified. (Limits U.S. presidents to two terms.)

1960s

• 1963: 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.

• 1964: Italian government asked public for ideas on how to save the leaning Tower of Pisa

• Born 1966: Donal Logue (actor)

1980s

• Born 1980: Chelsea Clinton (daughter of U.S. President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton)

• Born 1981: Josh Groban (singer)

1990s

• 1992: 16-year-old Tiger Woods, youngest PGA golfer in 35 years, teed off in L.A. Open

• Died 1993: Lillian Gish (actress)

2000s

• Died 2002: Spike Milligan (comedian)

• Died 2003: Fred Rogers (host of the PBS children's show, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood)

• 2008: A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck about 125 miles north of London, England

• Died 2008: William F. Buckley Jr. (writer & founder of National Review)

2010s

• 2010: An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile

• Died 2011: Frank W. Buckles (last surviving U.S. WW I veteran; he was 110 years old)

• 2013: Nine-foot tall bronze sculpture of civil rights activist Rosa Parks unveiled in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.

• Died 2015: Leonard Nimoy (actor)