February 27
425 | Theodosius effectively founds a university in Constantinople. | |
1531 | German Protestants form the League of Schmalkalden to resist the power of the emperor. | |
1700 | The Pacific Island of New Britain is discovered. | |
1814 | Napoleon's Marshal Nicholas Oudinot is pushed back at Barsur-Aube by the Emperor's allied enemies shortly before his abdication. | |
1827 | The first Mardi-Gras celebration is held in New Orleans. | |
1864 | The first Union prisoners arrive at Andersonville Prison in Georgia. | |
1865 | Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children. | |
1905 | The Japanese push Russians back in Manchuria and cross the Sha River. | |
1908 | The forty-sixth star is added to the U.S. flag, signifying Oklahoma's admission to statehood. | |
1920 | The United States rejects a Soviet peace offer as propaganda. | |
1925 | Glacier Bay National Monument is dedicated in Alaska. | |
1933 | The burning down of the Reichstag building in Berlin gives the Nazis the opportunity to suspend personal liberty with increased power. | |
1939 | The Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes. | |
1942 | British Commandos raid a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast. | |
1953 | F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River. | |
1962 | South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon. | |
1963 | The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba. | |
1969 | Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon's arrival in Rome. | |
1973 | U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can't bar residents because of color. | |
1988 | Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. | |
1991 | Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army. |
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