Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 27

This is a list of selected February 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Henry IV
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  Mary of Guise
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  Manuel Belgrano
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  The skyline of Ahmedabad filled with smoke as buildings and shops are set on fire by rioting mobs

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
: Independence Day in the Dominican Republic (1844)	refimprove section
907 – Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, was enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao dynasty in northern China.	unreferenced section
1594 – Henry IV of France was crowned at the Chartres Cathedral near Paris, beginning the Bourbon dynasty.	refimprove sections
1801 – Under the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C., a new planned city and capital of the United States, was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.	unreferenced section
1812 – Manuel Belgrano raised the flag of Argentina, which he designed, in the city of Rosario, during the Argentine War of Independence.	unreferenced section
The Trades Union Congress held a conference in London to bring together all left-wing activist groups in order to form a single body that would sponsor Parliamentary candidates— which came to be known as the Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].	unreferenced section
1963 – [[Politician,Juan Bosch, became the first democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic since the assassination of the previous politician Rafael Trujillo two years before.
1973 – For five weeks approximately 200 followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1976 – The rebel movement known as Pilisario Front,proclaimed Sahrawi Arab as a Democratic republic. ]] in [[Western Sahara	unreferenced section, external link.
2004 –[[The initial version of the John Jay Report was released which detailed Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States.	unreferenced section

Eligible

• 380 – After the battle of Thessalonica,Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire.
• 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick was signed, setting the terms under which an English fleet and army could enter Scotland to expel French troops defending the Regency of Mary of Guise.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Patriot victory in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge resulted in the arrests of 850 Loyalists over the following days.
• 1933 – The Reichstag building in Berlin, home of the German Parliament, was set on fire, a pivotal event in the establishment of the Nazi regime in Germany.
• 1962 – Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots failed an attempt to assasinate President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1962 at the South Vietnamese Independence Palace in an unsuccesful bombing attempt.

• 1982 – Known for its performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company gave its last performance.
• 1988 – The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was the target of a violent pogrom.
• 1989 – Looting, protests and riots in Caracazo were the cause of aproximately 276 to 2,000 people in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and its surrounding towns.
• 1996 – The release of original versions of the media franchise Pokémon was launched with the release of the first versions of the video games Pokémon Red and Blue Pokémon Red and Green.
• 2015 – Russian statesman and politician, Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of [[Vladimir Putin was assassinated in central Moscow.
• Born/died this day: Robert of Melun (d. 1167) · William Alabaster (b. 1567) · Joaquín Sorolla (b. 1863) · Alice Hamilton (b. 1869) · Ivan Pavlov (d. 1936) · Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar (d. 1956) · Leah Poulton (b. 1984)

Notes

• Ngo Dinh Diem (1959 assassination attempt) appears on February 22, so 1962 attempt should not appear in the same year

[[February 27-1977]

Flag of Japan

• 1617 – Sweden signed the Treaty of Stolbovo to end the Ingrian War with Russia, making large territorial gains.
• 1870 – The current flag of Japan (pictured) was first adopted as a civil ensign for Japanese merchant ships.
• 1900 – FC Bayern Munich, Germany's most successful football club, was founded.
• 1940 – American biochemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of carbon, which is now used extensively as the basis of diagnostic testing in the clinical setting ]]and method to date archaeological and geological samples.
• 2002 – Violent riots, perceived to have been instigated by a train fire that killed 59 Hindu pilgrims, broke out in the Indian state of Gujarat, killing at least 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, over three days.

Ellen Terry (b. 1847) · Hosteen Klah (d. 1937) · Chelsea Clinton (b. 1980)

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