On this day, February 27: The Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov murdered murdered

In 1933 it was announced that the elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use a 263-year-old, tattered Dutch Bible, who had been owned by his family since 1670 on March 4.

In 1942, Salvos opened in the Battle of the Java Sea, in which 11 American-British-Dutch-Australian command warships were sunk by the Japanese, which led to the death of around 3,400 seafarers. The USS Houston (Ca-30), which was sunk during the Battle of Sunda Strait on March 1, 1942, was in 2014.

In 1951 the 22nd change in the US constitution, which the presidents limited to two terms, was ratified.

In 1973, members of the Indian Indian movement began a 71-day line-up at Wounded Knie, SD to protest against the failure of the federal government, to meet their agreements with Indian nations.

The first edition of the People Magazine was published in 1974.

In 1982, a jury of Atlanta Wayne Williams condemned two out of 28 young African Americans whose death had shaken the city over a period of two years. Williams was convicted of life in prison.

In 1990, the Soviet Parliament approved the creation of a US president system, which made Mikhail Gorbachev broad powers and established direct elections for the office.

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In 1991 President George HW Bush ordered the Allied military offensive against Iraqi armed forces and said: '' Our military goals are achieved. ''

In 1999 Nigeria's transition to civil rule was almost completed to the president with the election of Olusegun Obasanjo, a former military leader.

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In 2007, a suicide bomber triggered a device outside of Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, which killed 23 people. The US Vice President Dick Cheney, who visited the American military base and was identified by the Taliban as the goal of the attack, escaped an injury.

In 2010, an earthquake of 8.8 magnitude hit Chile's coast and killed more than 500 people. The quake generated a tsunami, destroyed or badly damaged almost 500,000 houses and caused a massive electric power failure. Chile's President explained a “state of disaster”.

In 2013, around 150,000 people gathered at the St. Peter's Square in Vatican City for Pope Benedict XVI's final general public.

In 2015, the Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov died of a fatal gunshot wound. In the days before his death, Nemtsov expressed fears to be killed by the government, but the government persecuted Chechen men because of his death.

In 2022, former President Donald Trump won an informal straw survey that would support the participants of the conservative political action conference in a pre -election of the Republican President.

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