On this day — February 27

Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.

hiding in Johor, Malaysia until he was recaptured over a year later.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest daily fall in ten years, following speculation about a crackdown on illegal share offerings and trading, and fears about accelerating inflation.

the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.

A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.

President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".

The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.

under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.