February 27

On This Day In History
	1991: U.S. victory declared in Persian Gulf War On this day in 1991, U.S. President George Bush ordered a cease-fire effective at midnight and declared victory in the Persian Gulf War, a conflict triggered by Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait in August 1990.
Remains of an Iraqi convoy near Kuwait city, Kuwait, during the Persian Gulf War
Biography Of The Day
	Constantine I Thought to have been born this day after AD 280, Constantine I, the first Roman emperor to profess Christianity, sparked the empire's evolution into a Christian state and catalyzed a distinctively Christian culture.
Marble colossal head 2.41 metres (7.9 feet) high of Constantine the Great
More Events On This Day In History
1973	1973 Two hundred members of the American Indian Movement forcefully took the reservation hamlet of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
	1967 Saint Kitts and Nevis (with Anguilla) became an independent state associated with the United Kingdom.
1933	1933 In Berlin the Reichstag (parliament) building caught fire, a key event in the establishment of Nazi dictatorship.
1884	1884 Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic, signed a treaty in London that disavowed British authority over the Transvaal.
	1807 American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Massachusetts (now in Maine).
1776	1776 At the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolinian revolutionaries defeated loyalists during the American Revolution.