This Day In History
- 1997 The first all-female team, made up of 20 British women, reach the North Pole.
- Military
- 1644 The first Siege of Lathom House in the UK ended. Charlotte de la Tremoüille, Countess of Derby, had held off the besieging Parliamentary forces for three months before Royalist reinforcements arrived to run them off. The siege began on 27 February with 2,000 Parliamentary soldiers (500 cavalry and 1,500 infantry) against Charlotte's garrison of 300. Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) memorialized the siege in her poem Lord and Lady Derby.
- Sports
- 1984 Bulgarian tennis player Manuela Maleeva wins three singles matches in one day at the Italian Open, beating Virginie Ruzici, Carling Basset and Chris Evert in the final 6-3 6-3.
- 2018 Danica Patrick ended her auto racing career at the track that made her famous, losing traction on a slippery surface and crashing out of the Indianapolis 500.
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