| 425 |
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Theodosius effectively founds a university in Constantinople. |
| 1531 |
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German Protestants form the League of Schmalkalden to resist the power of the emperor. |
| 1700 |
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The Pacific Island of New Britain is discovered. |
| 1814 |
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Napoleon’s Marshal Nicholas Oudinot is pushed back at Barsur-Aube by the Emperor’s allied enemies shortly before his abdication. |
| 1827 |
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The first Mardi-Gras celebration is held in New Orleans. |
| 1864 |
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The first Union prisoners arrive at Andersonville Prison in Georgia. |
| 1865 |
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Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children. |
| 1905 |
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The Japanese push Russians back in Manchuria and cross the Sha River. |
| 1908 |
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The forty-sixth star is added to the U.S. flag, signifying Oklahoma’s admission to statehood. |
| 1920 |
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The United States rejects a Soviet peace offer as propaganda. |
| 1925 |
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Glacier Bay National Monument is dedicated in Alaska. |
| 1933 |
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The burning down of the Reichstag building in Berlin gives the Nazis the opportunity to suspend personal liberty with increased power. |
| 1939 |
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The Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes. |
| 1942 |
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British Commandos raid a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast. |
| 1953 |
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F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River. |
| 1962 |
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South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon. |
| 1963 |
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The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba. |
| 1969 |
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Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon’s arrival in Rome. |
| 1973 |
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U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can’t bar residents because of color. |
| 1988 |
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Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. |
| 1991 |
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Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army. |
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Born on February 27 |
| 1807 |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet. |
| 1886 |
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Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court justice. |
| 1888 |
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Lotte Lehmann, German opera singer. |
| 1891 |
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David Sarnoff, RCA board chairman and a pioneer of U.S. television |
| 1897 |
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Marian Anderson, singer. |
| 1902 |
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John Steinbeck, American novelist (The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men). |
| 1904 |
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James T. Farrel, author (Young Lonigan). |
| 1910 |
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Peter De Vries, writer, poetry editor (Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker). |
| 1912 |
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Lawrence Durrell, novelist (The Alexandria Quartet). |
| 1917 |
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John Connally, Texas Governor, wounded in the assassination of President John Kennedy. |
| 1930 |
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Joanne Woodward, actress (Rachel, Rachel, The Three Faces of Eve). |
| 1932 |
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Elizabeth Taylor, actress (Cleopatra, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). |
| 1934 |
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Ralph Nader, consumer advocate. |
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