What happend on 27th February

26.02
28.02
2005

pay price capping on the Transport for London Oyster card was introduced.

2004

Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans for a Better Barbuda.

2004

A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines kills 116, its worst terrorist attack.

2003

Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church.

2002

2002 Gujarat violence: a train catches fire a few minutes after it leaves the Godhra railway station, killing an estimated 58 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya and triggering riots that lead to the death of 1000 people, mostly Muslims.

1999

Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.

1999

While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.

1991

Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."

1990

Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on five criminal counts.

1989

Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo.