TOP TEN LISTS
Today in History
Friday, 27 February 2026
2010
Central Chile is hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.
2007
The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.
2004
A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2002
Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
1999
Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.
1991
Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
1989
Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
1986
The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1976
The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
1974
People magazine is published for the first time.
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