February 27: Shrove Monday (Western Christianity, 2017); Clean Monday (Eastern Christianity, 2017); Losar in Bhutan and Tibet (2017); Tsagaan Sar in Mongolia (2017)
Manuel Belgrano
- 907 – Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, was enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao dynasty in northern China.
- 1812 – Manuel Belgrano (pictured) raised the Flag of Argentina, which he designed, for the first time in the city of Rosario, during the Argentine War of Independence.
- 1940 – American biochemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14, which today is used extensively as the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date archaeological and geological samples.
- 1973 – Approximately 200 followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for five weeks.
- 2002 – A violent riot in Gujarat, India, where at least 1,000 people (mostly Muslims) were killed, was triggered by a train fire that killed 58 Hindu pilgrims.
Chelsea Clinton (b. 1980) · Jacques Plante (d. 1986)
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