Volume 14 , Issue 9

On This Day In History (27 February)

On Feb. 27, 1886, Hugo Black, who served 34 years as a U.S. Supreme Court judge and was known as a champion of civil liberties, was born. Following his death on Sept. 25, 1971, his obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary. On This Date - February 27
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1801 - The District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.

1807 - Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine.

1902 - Author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, Calif.

1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.

1973 - Members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, S.D., the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. The occupation lasted until May.

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