Oh Why Not!!

Apr 07, 2006 13:04

Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at http://wikipedia.org/
List three interesting events, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday. (and any other interesting things that you want to post)

February 27

EVENTS

1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.

1827 - The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.

Births

272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor

1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)

Death

1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
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