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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_27" title="February 27">February 27</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast day</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_of_Narek" title="Gregory of Narek">Saint Gregory of Narek</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholicism</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776">1776</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriot</a> victory at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moore%27s_Creek_Bridge" title="Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge">Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge</a></b> resulted in the arrests of 850 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)" title="Loyalist (American Revolution)">Loyalists</a> over the following days.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1814" title="1814">1814</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a>: In the south of France, Spanish, British and Portuguese soldiers under the command of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Arthur Wellesley</a> defeated French soldiers in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Orthez" title="Battle of Orthez">Battle of Orthez</a></b>, causing the French to retreat east.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988" title="1988">1988</a> – The Armenian community of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumgait" title="Sumgait">Sumgait</a> in Azerbaijan was the target of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumgait_pogrom" title="Sumgait pogrom">a violent pogrom</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996" title="1996">1996</a> – The multimedia franchise <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon" title="Pokémon">Pokémon</a></b></i> was launched with the release of the video games <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red,_Blue,_and_Yellow" title="Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow"><i>Pocket Monsters Red</i> and <i>Green</i></a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_of_Melun" title="Robert of Melun">Robert of Melun</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1167); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hamilton" title="Alice Hamilton">Alice Hamilton</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1869); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Vasudev_Mavalankar" title="Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar">Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1956); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Poulton" title="Leah Poulton">Leah Poulton</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1984)</p>
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