February 27

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[edit] Events

• 1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
• 1594 - Henry IV is crowned King of France.
• 1617 - Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
• 1812 - Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defence of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
• 1900 - The British Labour Party is founded.
• 1933 - Reichstag Fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.

[edit] Births

• 272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)
• 1898 - Gerald L.K. Smith, minister and WWII isolationist (d. 1976)
• 1928 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel.
• 1934 - Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and United States presidential candidate

[edit] Deaths

• 2007 - Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, World War II German soldier (b. 1914)
• 2008 - William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and conservative commentator (b. 1925)