Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for February 27, 2022
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Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.
On This Day
- 1557: The first Russian Embassy arrived in London
- 1670: Jews were expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
- 1801: Washington, DC was placed under Congressional jurisdiction
- 1803: Bombay, India experienced a Great Fire
- 1813: The first federal vaccination legislation in the US was enacted
- 1844: The Dominican Republic gained independence from Haiti
- 1861: Russians shot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw
- 1872: Charlotte Ray, the first African American woman lawyer in the US, graduated from Howard University
- 1873: Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demanded a law against child labor
- 1900: In London, the Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) met, resulting in a Labour Representative Committee and, in 1906, the modern Labour Party
- 1921: The International Working Union of Socialist Parties was founded in Vienna
- 1921: Fascists incited a riot in Florence, Italy
- 1922: The US Supreme Court unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution regarding women’s right to vote
- 1925: Adolf Hitler resurrected the NSDAP (Nazi) Party in Munich
- 1939: The US Supreme Court outlawed “sit-down strikes” in which workers strike on-site preventing work from getting done
- 1942: The first transport of French Jews left for Nazi Germany
- 1943: The week-long Rosenstrasse protest against the arrest and deportation of German Jews started in Berlin
- 1951: The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, which limits US Presidents to 2 terms
- 1956: Female suffrage was granted in Egypt
- 1967: Dominica gained independence from Great Britain
- 1971: Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic began performing induced abortions
- 1972: US President Richard Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai issued the Shanghai Communique pledging to work towards normalizing relations between the two nations
- 1980: Israel and Egypt exchanged ambassadors
- 1998: Britain’s House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male precedence by giving a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son
- 2007: The weeks-long general strike against Guinea’s authoriarian leader Lansana Conté ended
- 2010: Central Chile was hit with a magnitude 8.8 earthquake
- 2012: Wikileaks began disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor
- 2014: US Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a “religious freedom” bill that would have allowed businesses to turn away gay customers
- 2019: The first federal gun control legislation for 25 years was passed by the US House of Representatives with new federal background checks
Weekly Holidays and Observances including February 27, 2022
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February Monthly Holidays and Observances
- African American History Month/National Black History Month
- American Heart Month/National Heart Healthy Month
- Canned Food Month
- Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month
- International Boost Self Esteem Month
- International Expect Success Month
- Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
- National Cancer Prevention Month
- National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
- National Time Management Month
- Plant the Seeds of Greatness Month
- Spiritual Teachers Month
- Relationship Wellness Month
