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27 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1912 Kusumagraj, Marathi poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer, who wrote of freedom, justice and emancipation of the deprived. was born in Nashik.
- 1912 Lawrence Durrell, expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer, was born in Jalandhar, Punjab.
- 1931 Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary, shot himself to avoid capture by the British police at Alfred Park in Prayagraj.
- 2019 Pakistan shoots down an Indian fighter jet and captures the pilot Abhinandan Varthman, further escalating tensions in the disputed Kashmir region.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 0837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
- 1807 American poet H W Longfellow was born in Portland, Massachusetts (now in Maine).
- 1814 Ludwig van Beethoven's 8th Symphony in F premieres.
- 1870 The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
- 1902 John Steinbeck, American novelist, was born. He was best known for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression decade and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farmworkers.
- 1913 Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies, was born in New York, USA. Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggarman Thief and Bread Upon the Waters are some of his popular books.
- 1933 In Berlin the Reichstag (parliament) building caught fire, a key event in the establishment of Nazi dictatorship as it gave them the opportunity to suspend personal liberty with increased power.
- 2010 A magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck Chile, causing widespread damage and triggering a tsunami that devastated coastal areas; it was the most powerful earthquake to strike the region since 1960.
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