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A bit of February 27th history…
1827 - 1st Mardis Gras celebration in New Orleans (pictured)
1940 - Carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) is discovered in California
1950 - General Chiang Kai-Shek elected president of Nationalist China
1996 - 1st ever appearance of Pokemon in roleplaying video game “Pocket Monsters Red and Green” for game boy in Japan
2019 - Michael Cohen, a former lawyer to Trump, testifies before the House Oversight Committee saying Trump is “racist”, a “con man”, and “a cheat”
2020 - Biggest cosmic explosion ever detected from a supermassive black hole in Ophiuchus Galaxy 390 million light years away - size of 15 Milky Ways
A bit of February 27th history… 1827 - 1st Mardis Gras...