27Feb2010
In : On this day
Author : FJ
February 27: Purim begins at sunset (Judaism, 2010); Independence Day in the Dominican Republic (1844)

- 1594 – Henry IV of France was crowned at the Cathedral of Chartres near Paris, beginning the Bourbon dynasty.
- 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 the U.S. Congress.
- 1933 – The Reichstag building in Berlin, the assembly location of the German Parliament, was set on fire (pictured), a pivotal event in the establishment of the Nazi regime in Germany.
- 1940 – American biochemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered the radioactive isotope carbon-14, which today is used extensively as the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date archaeological, geological, and hydrogeological samples.
- 1962 – Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bombed the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed assassination attempt of President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem.
More anniversaries: February 26 – February 27 – February 28
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