Today is Tuesday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2007. There are 307 days left in the year. On this date in 1807, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is born in Portland, Maine.

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2007. There are 307 days left in the year. On this date in 1807, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is born in Portland, Maine.
In 1801, the District of Columbia is placed under the jurisdiction of Congress. In 1902, American author John Steinbeck is born in Salinas, Calif. In 1922, the Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upholds the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guarantees the right of women to vote. In 1933, Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, is gutted by fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, use the fire as justification for suspending civil liberties. In 1939, the Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes.In 1960, the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeats the Soviets 3-2 at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. (The U.S. team goes on to win the gold medal.) In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupy the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasts until May.) In 1979, Jane M. Byrne confounds Chicago's Democratic political machine as she upsets Mayor Michael A. Bilandic to win their party's mayoral primary. (Byrne goes on to win the election.) In 1991, President George H.W. Bush declares that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announces that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.
February 27, 1982: A 16-year-old Youngstown youth is shot and killed when he and an accomplice attempted to rob an off-duty city policeman, Thomas Andrews.
A Craig Beach police cruiser that was stolen Feb. 19 is found abandoned and burned out in a desolate patch of woods in Diamond Township.
The National Weather Service office at Youngstown Municipal Airport escapes the wrath of President Reagan's budget cuts.
February 27, 1967: More than 500 Youngstown keglers compete in the 35th annual Youngstown Men's Championship Bowling Tournament at Champion Recreation.
Youngstown's restless teenagers, fed up with the notoriety of gang wars and two deaths in the last three months, agree & quot;to cool it & quot; during a two-hour meeting in Immaculate Conception Church. .
February 27, 1957: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan steers the 458 million Interior Department appropriations bill through the House in a record time of 70 minutes.
Vindicator reporters conducting their sixth survey of gambling joints in the Youngstown area find business is brisk at hangouts owned by Sandy Naples and Vince DeNiro.
Pope Pius XXII says it is not immoral or unChristian to use anesthetics or other drugs under a doctor's orders, but maintains the sale of tranquilizer pills must be curbed "to prevent grave physical and moral damage to society."
February 27, 1932: Neva Keir and Johnny Kabealo are chosen the most popular students at Chaney High school in a contest by & quot;The Westerner & quot; school magazine. She was first in state debate and third in the nation; he is football star and class president. Both are A students.
About 300 hold-out depositors are keeping the Dollar Bank from reopening.
Warner A. Wick of Youngstown, a student at Williams College, wins the John Edmund Moody memorial scholarship to pursue graduate studies at Oxford University.
Tom Kane, who had been named to replace Lionel Evans as park commissioner but was barred from doing so by Judge David G. Jenkins, is given a 9.50 per day job as an engineer in the department of public works.