Historical Events for 27th February 2024

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1925 - Adolf Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
1933 - Jean Genet's play "Intermezzo" premieres in Paris
1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California
1942 - Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk and 2 Japanese
1965 - Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray's musical "High Spirits", based on Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit", closes at Alvin Theater, NYC, after 375 performances
1973 - White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3 year $750,000 contract
2002 - Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya
2019 - Doctors announce world's second known case of semi-identical twins, a boy and girl from Brisbane, Australia
2019 - Actor Luke Perry (52) suffers a stroke in Los Angeles
2019 - First gun control legislation for 25 years passed by US House of Representatives, with new federal background checks

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