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Friday, 27 February 2026
1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes speaks to reporters by phone, stating that a biography of him by author Clifford Irving is phony. 
1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire while at anchor in Hong Kong
1972 Ted Shawn, US dancer, dies at 80.
1973 Heather Berson is born in California.
1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon.
1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike.
1975 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
1975 John Slater, actor (Deadlock, 3 on a Spree), dies at 58
1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts
1976 In this year, Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK
1977 Alexey Kozlovsky, composer, dies at 71.
1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established.
1978 Eddie Gilbert, cricket (Aboriginal Qld quick got Don for a duck), dies
1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"
1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses.
1979 Avery Claflin, composer, dies at 80.
1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
1980 Saudi Arabia executes 63 people for their part in a raid on Mecca's Grand Mosque the previous November.
1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal
1981 Kazimierz Serocki, composer, dies at 58
1982 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; inaugural since 1855
1982 Three moderate earthquakes measuring 5.5 to 4.9 on the Richter scale shake New Brunswick and New England.
1982 Paul Lynde, actor (Bye Bye Birdie, Bewitched), dies at 55
1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands.
1984 "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops).
1984 "WHERE’S THE BEEF?" Clara Peller was inaugural seen by TV viewers this day in the famous and successful commercial campaign for Wendy’s fast-food chain
1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh.
1984 In this year, John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"
1984 Wolfgang Staudte, German director (Ciske de Rat), dies at 77.
1985 Calgary Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out.
1985 The Calgary Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
1985 Don Brennan, cricket wicketkeeper (England in 2 Tests 1951), dies.
1986 After 10 years of sales (and a lawsuit from rival Polaroid), Kodak discontinues its line of instant cameras.
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