February 27<\/p>\n
272 \u2013 Flavius Valerius Constantinus – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great –\u00a0 is born in Naissus, Dacia province, now the city of Ni\u0161, Serbia.<\/p>\n
380 \u2013 Under the Edict of Thessalonica,<\/em> Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors, sons Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Christianity as defined in the Nicene creed.<\/p>\n 1776 \u2013 During the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge near Wilmington in North Carolina a battalion of the North Carolina Provincial Congress’ Militia\u00a0breaks up a loyalist militia that the British governor had recruited to join British forces.<\/p>\n 1782 \u2013 The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.<\/p>\n 1801 \u2013 Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801<\/em>, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n 1860 \u2013 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely regarded as responsible for his election to the Presidency.<\/p>\n 1902 \u2013 During the Second Boer War, Australian soldiers Harry “Breaker” Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.<\/p>\n 1922 \u2013 In the case of Leser v. Garnett,\u00a0<\/em>the Supreme Court rules against a challenge to the constitutionality of the 19th amendment.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag<\/em>, is set on fire.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013\u00a0 In the case of NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp, <\/em>the Supreme Court rules that the National Labor Relations Board has no authority to force an employer to rehire workers who engage in sit-down strikes.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.<\/p>\n 1951 \u2013 The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in protest of the federal government.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 After Saddam Hussein orders a full retreat, President Bush announces the liberation of Kuwait, however hostilities continue and retreating Iraqi forces are engaged and bombed so extensively by coalition air forces along Highway 80 from Kuwait City to Safwan Iraq, that it comes to be called the Highway of Death.<\/em><\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale that strikes central parts of Chile, killing 500 people, and injuring many more, triggers a tsunami which strikes Hawaii<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 27 272 \u2013 Flavius Valerius Constantinus – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great –\u00a0 is born in Naissus, Dacia province, now the city of Ni\u0161, Serbia. 380 \u2013 Under the Edict of Thessalonica, Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors, sons Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Christianity as … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90375,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65281\/revisions\/90375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}