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On this day: February 27

POSTED: 10:12 AM PST Feb 26, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 26, 2013

Saccharin is accidentally discovered, the 22nd Amendment is ratified, Michael Jackson wins his first Grammy, and Mister Rogers dies, all on this day.

OTD February 27 - William F Buckley — 32 / 37

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2008: Conservative author and political commentator William F. Buckley Jr., who founded the political magazine National Review in 1955 and hosted the television show "Firing Line" from 1966 until 1999, dies of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Stamford, Conn.

OTD February 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

OTD February 27 - Abraham Lincoln

OTD February 27 - Constantin Fahlberg

OTD February 27 - Louis Vuitton

OTD February 27 - Aspirin

OTD February 27 - John Steinbeck

OTD February 27 - 19th Amendment

OTD February 27 - Joanne Woodward

OTD February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor

OTD February 27 - Ralph Nader

OTD February 27 - Howard Hesseman

OTD February 27 - Smith mining disaster

OTD February 27 - 22nd Amendment

OTD February 27 - James Worthy

OTD February 27 - Frankie Lymon

OTD February 27 - Janis Joplin

OTD February 27 - Wounded Knee

OTD February 27 - Keith Richards

OTD February 27 - Michael Jackson

OTD February 27 - Chelsea Clinton

OTD February 27 - Josh Groban

OTD February 27 - Katarina Witt

OTD February 27 - Exxon Valdez

OTD February 27 - Gulf War

OTD February 27 - James Brown

OTD February 27 - Whitney Houston

OTD February 27 - Lillian Gish

OTD February 27 - JT Walsh

OTD February 27 - Alicia Keys

OTD February 27 - Mister Rogers

OTD February 27 - John Jay Report

OTD February 27 - William F Buckley

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OTD February 27 - Wisconsin protests

OTD February 27 - Frank Buckles

OTD February 27 - Duke Snider

OTD February 27 - Chardon High School shooting

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