TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – FEB 27
0425 Theodosius effectively founds a university in Constantinople.
1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
1827 The first Mardi-Gras celebration is held in New Orleans.
1844 Dominican Republic gained independence from Haiti.
1861 Warsaw Massacre Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russian rule of Poland
1865 Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children.
1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1908 The forty-sixth star is added to the U.S. flag, signifying Oklahoma’s admission to statehood.
1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1932 The neutron is discovered English physicist James Chadwick was later awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
1933 The burning down of the Reichstag building in Berlin gives the Nazis the opportunity to suspend personal liberty with increased power.
1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California
1962 South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon.
1973 U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can’t bar residents because of color.
1973 Members of the American Indian Movement occupied the village of Wounded Knee, S.D.
1975 House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
1991 Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army.
2002 A Muslim mob set fire to a train carrying Hindu pilgrims The attack killed 59 people, including many women and children.
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