THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Today is Thursday, February 27, the 58th day of 2014. There are 307 days left in the year.

1854 — Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine

1933 — German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire (set by Nazis, blamed on communists)

1939 — Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes

1950 — General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1969 — General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup d’etat

1970 — New York Times (falsely) reports U.S. army has ended domestic surveillance

1976 — Final meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon

1988 — Katarina Witt (GDR) wins second consecutive Olympics figure skating

1991 — Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat and Kuwait is liberated

1998 — FBI arrests on of the 10 most wanted suspected serial killers, Tony Ray Amati