TODAY IN HISTORY: Victory in Gulf War

On this day in history:

On Feb. 27, 1860, former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln delivered a widely acclaimed speech in which he argued against the expansion of slavery into the western territories, telling listeners at Cooper Union in New York that “right makes might.”

In 1963, Mickey Mantle signed a $100,000 contract with the New York Yankees. At the time, it was the biggest contract ever signed in major league baseball.

In 1977, Keith Richards of “The Rolling Stones” was arrested at the Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto on heroin possession charges. He was eventually found guilty. In lieu of a jail sentence for Richards, “The Rolling Stones” played two benefit CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind) concerts at the civic auditorium in Oshawa, east of Toronto, in April 1979.

In 1991, U.S. President George H. Bush declared Gulf War allies had defeated Iraq’s army and that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.

In 2010, Canada’s men’s curling team, skipped by Kevin Martin, capped an unbeaten performance (13-0) at the Vancouver Olympics with a 6-3 win over Norway in the gold medal game

In 2019, Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, testified before Congress that Trump knew ahead of time and embraced the news that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Cohen testified that Trump is a “racist,” a “conman” and a “cheat.”

In 2020, the Senate voted to suspend Senator Lynn Beyak for a second time over letters posted on her website considered derogatory to Indigenous Peoples.