February 27th

1807 ~ Birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet (The Song of Hiawatha, The Village Blacksmith, Paul Revere's Ride)

1812 ~ Poet Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddites.

1827 ~ The first Mardi Gras was celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1873 ~ Birthday of Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor.

1887 ~ Death of Alexander Borodin, composer.

1902 ~ Birthday of John Steinbeck, Writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1962.

1912 ~ Birthday of Lawrence Durrell, Writer.

1933 ~ Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, was set on fire.

1951 ~ In a victory for freedom lovers, the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, was ratified.

2002 ~ Indian Sectarian Violence: a train caught fire a few minutes after it left the Godhra railway station, killing an estimated 58 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya, triggering riots that led to the death of 1000 people, mostly Muslims.
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