Quick glance of 27 February in the pages of History

February 27: Here are the major events that occurred on 27 February….

• 27 February, 1803: A devastating fire broke out in Bombay, a densely populated area in possession of the British. The fire engulfed the old fort, and the packed areas there, both residential and markets. At least 14 people died after the fire raged through a pub in Mumbai’s Lower Parel.
• 27 February, 1922: US Supreme Court unanimously upholds 19th amendment to the US Constuituent – women’s right to vote.
• 27 February, 1931: One of the greatest Indian revolutionaries Chandrashekhar Azad shot himself after a gun fight at Alfred Park, Allahabad to ensure that British police could not arrest him.
• 27 February, 1950: General Chiang Kai–shek elected President of Nationalist China
• 27 February, 1956: Death anniversary of Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha. He was popularly known as Dadasaheb.
• 27 February, 1998: Britain’s House of Lords agrees to end 1,000 years of male precedence by giving a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son
• 27 February, 2002: Burning of a rail bogey of Sabarmati Express in Godhra. The Godhra Train Burning was an incident that occurred on the morning of 27 February 2002, in which 58 Hindu pilgrims karsevaks returning from Ayodhya, were killed in a fire inside the Sabarmati Express train near the Godhra railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat.
• 27 February, 2019: On this day Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was flying a MiG-21 as a part of a sortie that was scrambled to intercept an intrusion by Pakistan aircraft into Jammu and Kashmir. In the the dogfight that ensued, he crossed into Pakistan territory where he was struck by a missile. He was held captive for 60 hours in Pakistan. He was released on 1 March, 2019.