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'''February 27''' in history:
* 2002: In the Indian state of Gujarat, Muslim extremists attacked and burned a train full of Hindu activists returning from a trip to the city of Ayodhya, where they were agitating for the construction of a Hindu temple on a site where a mosque had earlier been destroyed; this grim incident sparked retaliatory attacks in Gujarat in which hundreds of Muslims died.
* 1991: In a televised address, President George Bush announced that Kuwait had been liberated and that offensive action against [[Directory:Iraq|Iraq]] in the Persian Gulf War would end at midnight (EST; 8 a.m. on February 28, in the Middle East).
* 1973: Members of the American Indian Movement seized the village of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in [[Directory:South Dakota|South Dakota]], protesting discriminatory actions against Native Americans and calling for an investigation of the official tribal administration; they occupied the site for 72 days.
* 1933: The Reichstag building in Berlin was destroyed by fire; alleging that the fire was part of a Communist plot, the new Nazi government of [[Adolf Hitler]] immediately suspended civil rights and suppressed the opposition.
* 1844: The [[Directory:Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]] proclaimed its independence from Haiti.
[[Category:February]] [[Category:Days of the Year]]