Li Bingbing (Chinese: 李冰冰; pinyin: Lǐ Bīngbīng; born February 27, 1973) is a Chinese actress. She gained critical acclaim for her role in Seventeen Years (1999) and received widespread success with films such as A World Without Thieves (2004), The Knot (2006), The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), The Message (2009), and Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010). Li has also starred in Hollywood films Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), and The Meg (2018).
Li ranked 26th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 28th in 2014, 13th in 2015, 29th in 2017, and 76th in 2019.
Read more...The February 27, 1973 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 57 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 52 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, February 27, 2025, 200 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, February 27, 2026, in 164 days. You have lived for 19,193 days, or about 460,638 hours, or about 27,638,335 minutes, or about 1,658,300,100 seconds.
Date: 27 February 1973
B A Powers, pres of Typographical Union Local 6, says on Feb 26 that he has given parent internatl union required notification that bargaining situation with NY's major daily news papers, NY Times, NY News, LI Press and NY Post, could result in strike; vote on strike authorization is not expected until March 18
Date: 27 February 1973
Fed Dist Ct Judge W M Byrne Jr, presiding over Pentagon papers trial, orders defendants D Ellsberg and A J Russo Jr acquitted on Feb 26 of 1 count of espionage in their 15-count indictment but does not immediately rule on 2 other counts that he took under submission; refuses defense requests for acquittal on 11 counts of espionage-conspiracy-theft indictment; Byrne says that there still remain questions of constitutionality on some of statues as applied; says removal of count against Russo resulted from Govt's interpretation of word 'disposed'; repts he had questioned attys at length as to what was meant by 'disposed of' in relation to eventual use of papers and whether Russo was aware of such planned disposal when he helped copy papers; felt he was not aware of any plams to dispose of papers
Date: 27 February 1973
Scores of Communist Chinese officials, aides, interpreters and newsmen, led by Min Chi Peng-fei, are in Paris to attend internatl conf on Vietnam; it is first time since before Chinese Cultural Revolution of the '60s that the Chinese press corps is appearing at a major Eur conf; some newsmen ask Western colleagues for copies of Sec Rogers speech which was not available to the press; in contrast, Chinese release copies of Chi's speech
Date: 28 February 1973
Typographical Union Local 6 on Feb 27 explains contract proposals to reprs of NY Daily News, NY Times and NY Post as formal talks get under way in effort to work out new agreements to replace those expiring March 30; local pres B A Powers leads his bargaining team in all-day session at offices of Publishers Assn; newspaper spokesman says another meeting with ITU has been scheduled for March 2 and that publishers will present their proposals to union on March 5; 1 of objectives of newspapers in current round of negotiations is to eliminate any bars to automation and to open way for use of modern printing techniques
Date: 28 February 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Defense in Pentagon papers case on Feb 27 opens its case with argument by atty L I Weinglass in which he promises jury that defense will present 'extensive' and 'compelling' testimony from high-ranking civilian and mil officials of Kennedy and Johnson Adms and from 'leaders of Congress' in '69 and '70; major thrust of testimony will be that had Pentagon papers been disclosed in '69 they would not have harmed natl defense and information contained in papers was needed by public in that year; defense will try to show that it was not defendants who defrauded Govt out of papers but that Govt, in withholding papers from Cong, was defrauding Cong; Weinglass says although papers were not devoid of mil facts, the few isolated facts were 'stale' and already in public domain; Adm G LaRocque, dir of Center for Defense Information, testifies that disclosure of '68 Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum 'could in no way have been of harm to the US in 1969'; says assessments made in document are 'vague' and 'ambiguous'; says that he studied section of it for long time and 'couldn't figure out what it meant' and that information contained in it would probably be of interest to foreign anaylst but would be of no practical use to him 1 yr later; illus of Ellsberg and wife at Fed Bldg in Los Angeles
Date: 27 February 1973
Special to The New York Times
Atty Gen Kleindienst denies on Feb 26 rept by Time that FBI tapped telephones of number of newsmen and White House aides with approval of top Justice Dept officials; says he has strongest personal assurances from former Atty Gen Mitchell that he never authorized or was asked to authorize implementation of such devices against reporters or White House aides; says FBI acting dir L P Gray 3d termed charge that he approved continuation of such wiretaps 'blatantly untrue'
Date: 27 February 1973
By DAVID K. SHIPLERSpecial to The New York Times
David SHIPLERSpecial
Pres Nixon's re-election com obtains subpoenas on Feb 26 ordering 12 reporters and news execs to turn over all their notes, tapes and other private material relating to news articles on bugging of Dem Natl hq last June; those receiving subpoenas are K Graham, H Simons, C Bernstein, B Woodward and J Mann (Washington Post), Washington Star-News, NY Times and Time; Repubs lawyer K W Parkinson says they are asking for information reporters secured in ints which would include 'false, libelous, malicious statements' allegedly made by former Dem party Chmn L F O'Brien about several high-ranking Repubs; soon after bugging was discovered, O'Brien charged that it was engineered with help of Pres Nixon's chief fund-raiser M H Stans; reporters and news execs listed
Date: 27 February 1973
By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN
Michael KAUFMAN
Yale Prof A M Bickel on Feb 26 makes key address at rededication ceremonies of W L Willkie Memorial Bldg of Freedom House Orgn, NYC
Date: 28 February 1973
By DAVID K. SHIPLERSpecial to The New York Times
David SHIPLERSpecial
Nassau County Dist Atty W Cahn and Covington, Ky, Dist Atty J J O'Hara on Feb 27 say that law enforcement would be hurt if newsmen were unable to guarantee anonymity to certain sources, Sen Judiciary Subcom on Const Rights hearing; Cahn says that newspapers often publish articles 'alerting investigators to sub rosa (confidential) crime-breeding conditions' with stories relying on confidential sources; O'Hara and Cahn rept they would have no objection to Fed law giving reporters partial immunity from forced testimony under most circumstances, although they oppose absolute immunity that would block all subpoenas; W F Thomas, editor of Los Angeles Times, says in past few yrs Times has been served with more than 30 subpoenas and threatened by more than 50 others; says Times has spent more than $200,000 in last few yrs defending itself against subpoenas; Sen S J Ervin Jr says he has decided to support Cong action that would give newsmen partial immunity