This Day In History, February 27th.
Five Historical Events That Happened on February 27th.
After a successful war against the Vandals in 280 AD, Roman Emperor Probus was slain by his own soldiers near Sirmium (modern-day Serbia).
Thomas Jefferson was elected as the third President of the United States by the House of Representatives in 1801 as a result of the approval of the 12th Amendment to the US Constitution.
1933: A fire was started at Berlin's Reichstag building, which served as the home of the German parliament. The tragedy served as a justification for the Nazis to restrict civil freedoms and strengthen their hold on power.
The United States Constitution's Twenty-second Amendment, which restricts the presidency to two terms, was ratified in 1951.
1991 saw the end of the Gulf War as a truce between coalition forces commanded by the United States and Iraq.
After a successful war against the Vandals in 280 AD, Roman Emperor Probus was slain by his own soldiers near Sirmium (modern-day Serbia).
From 276 to 282 AD, Probus was the Roman Emperor. During his reign, he conducted campaigns against numerous tribes and Roman adversaries and was a successful general. His military accomplishments, however, were unable to stop his death by his own soldiers in 282 AD near Sirmium (modern-day Serbia). The Roman Empire's military emperors came to an end with Probus' death, and Carus took over.
Thomas Jefferson was elected as the third President of the United States by the House of Representatives in 1801.
In 1804, the 12th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, altering the process for electing the President and Vice President. Yet, the events that led to ratification started in 1800, when Democratic-Republican candidates Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson deadlocked for the president in the electoral college. The House of Representatives had to decide who would be president under the current system in order to break the deadlock. On February 17, 1801, Jefferson was finally elected as the third President of the United States after numerous vote rounds. By mandating separate votes in the electoral college for the President and Vice President, the 12th Amendment was ratified in an effort to prevent such a situation from occurring again.
A fire was started at Berlin's Reichstag building, which served as the home of the German parliament.
On February 27, 1933, the German parliament building in Berlin was burned down in the Reichstag fire. The catastrophe served as a justification for the Nazi Party, which had just recently taken control, to abrogate civil freedoms and assign guilt for the fire to the Communist Party. The Reichstag Fire Decree, which restricted freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and other civil liberties, was passed by the Nazi-controlled government, solidifying their hold on power. Although though the details of the incident are still debated, it is generally accepted that the Nazis either set it on purpose or permitted it to happen to justify their persecution of political opponents.
The United States Constitution's Twenty-second Amendment, which restricts the presidency to two terms, was ratified in 1951.
On February 27, 1951, the Twenty-second Amendment to the US Constitution was approved. The amendment sets a ceiling of two terms for the presidency of the United States. The amendment was put out in response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, which many thought were excessively long and may be harmful to democracy. The amendment was put out in 1947, and the necessary number of states ratified it in 1951. With the exception of President Harry S. Truman, who essentially completed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth term after Roosevelt's death in 1945, no U.S. president has held office for more than two terms since that time.
The Gulf War came to an end as a ceasefire was declared between coalition forces led by the United States and Iraq.
As Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, the Gulf War, often known as the First Gulf War, officially broke out. In response, the US led a coalition of 34 nations in a military effort to drive the Iraqi soldiers out of Kuwait. A ceasefire deal was achieved on February 28, 1991, ending the war after several months of ferocious warfare. The agreement said that Iraqi forces must leave Kuwait and that the United Nations must supervise the dismantling of Iraq's WMDs. The coalition troops won the Gulf War handily, and it also signaled the start of a decade of UN sanctions against Iraq that would ultimately end in a second war in Iraq in 2003.