On This Day in History February 27, 2021

Historical Events 1693  1st women's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published in London, England 1900  In London, the Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet, results in a Labour Representative Committee and eventually the modern Labour Party in 1906 1940  Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California 1950  General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1957  Mao's famous speech to the Supreme State Conference "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" expounding Maoist ideals 2012  Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Constantine the Great (272 - 337) Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - 2011) John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) Marian Anderson (1897 - 1993) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Fred Rogers (1928 - 2003) Spike Milligan (1918 - 2002) More Famous Deaths