Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 27

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 * 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick was signed, setting the terms under which an English fleet and army could enter Scotland to expel French troops defending the regency of Mary of Guise (pictured).
 * 1617 – Sweden signed the Treaty of Stolbovo to end the Ingrian War with Russia, making large territorial gains.
 * 1870 – The current flag of Japan was first adopted as a civil ensign for Japanese merchant ships.
 * 1900 – FC Bayern Munich, Germany's most successful football club, was founded.
 * 1933 – The Reichstag building, the seat of the German parliament in Berlin, was set on fire in a pivotal event in the establishment of the Nazi regime.
 * 1940 – American biochemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of carbon, which is now used extensively as the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date archaeological and geological samples.
 * 1962 – Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bombed the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate President Ngo Dinh Diem.
 * 1972 – The Sunday People revealed that James Humphreys, a notorious pornographer, had bribed a senior London police officer with a holiday to Cyprus and Beirut.
 * 1982 – The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, known for its performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas, gave its final performance.
 * 2002 – Violent riots, perceived to have been instigated by a train fire that killed 59 Hindu pilgrims, broke out in the Indian state of Gujarat, killing at least 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, over three days.
 * 2015 – Russian statesman and politician Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, was assassinated in central Moscow.
 * Born/died this day: | Ruprecht of the Palatinate |b|1427| William Alabaster |b|1567| Joaquín Sorolla |b|1863|Pietro Gnocchi |b|1689|  Ellen Terry |b|1847| Mabel Keaton Staupers |b|1890| Ivan Pavlov |d|1936|  Chelsea Clinton |b|1980|  Necmettin Erbakan |d|2011 |Tina Strobos |d|2012