THURSDAY, Feb. 27, 2025

1693-The first women's magazine "Ladies' Mercury", is published in London

1900-The Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet in London, resulting in a Labour Representative Committee and eventually the modern UK Labour Party in 1906

1933-Nazi Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, is destroyed by fire; possibly set by the Nazis, who blame and execute Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe

1940-Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California

1957-Mao Zedong's famous speech to the Supreme State Conference "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" expounding Maoist ideals

1968-CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on America's chances of winning the Vietnam War

1991-Singer James Brown is paroled from prison after serving 2 years of 6 year sentence for weapon and drug related convictions

2012-Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor