Jose de Urrea

The Battle of San Patricio was fought on February 27, 1836, between Mexican troops and Texians , rebellious settlers in the Mexican province of Texas . The battle marked the start of the Goliad Campaign , the Mexican offensive to retake the Texas Gulf Coast . By the end of 1835, all Mexican troops had been driven from Texas. Frank W. Johnson , the commander of the volunteer army in Texas, gathered volunteers for a planned invasion of the Mexican port town of Matamoros . After spending several weeks gathering horses, in late February Johnson and about 40 men led the herd to San Patricio . He assigned some of his troops to a ranch outside town to guard the horses. Unbeknownst to the Texians, on February 18 Mexican General Jose de Urrea (pictured) had led a large contingent of troops from Matamoros into Texas. Urrea's men easily followed the trail left by the horses, and surprised the sleeping Texians in San Patricio. After a fifteen-minute battle, all but six Texians had been killed or imprisoned. ( Full?article... )

Mouth and tentacles of the spotted wobbegong

• ... that prey of the spotted wobbegong (pictured) have been known to approach its mouth and nibble on its tentacles?
• ... that Reina Ueda voiced 18 sisters in the anime series Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono ?
• ... that the first attempt of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company to lay a submarine telegraph cable to Ireland failed because the cable would not reach that far?
• ... that Ambrosia Tønnesen is regarded as the first professional female sculptor in Norway?
• ... that Cleitarchus 's History of Alexander , written in the fourth century BC, was criticized by contemporaries as being overly sensational?
• ... that Karl Plagge 's efforts to rescue Jews during the Holocaust succeeded because he entered a "grey zone" of moral compromise?
• ... that role-playing video game Dungeon Siege III has so many items with unexplained statistics that it left reviewers confused?
• ... that quarterback Sammy Baugh was investigated by the National Football League after missing the 1942 NFL All-Star Game because he had the flu?

Rami Malek

• India conducts an air strike against suspected militants in Balakot , Pakistan.
• Green Book wins Best Picture and Bohemian Rhapsody wins in four categories ( Best Actor recipient Rami Malek pictured) at the Academy Awards .
• Pope Francis concludes a summit in Vatican City that discussed sexual abuse by Catholic Church clergy .
• Scientists synthesize hachimoji DNA using four new nucleobases in addition to the four in natural DNA .

February 27

The Reichstag on fire

• 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 .
• 1870 ? The current flag of Japan was first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
• 1933 ? The Reichstag building in Berlin, the assembly location of the German Parliament , was set on fire (pictured) , a pivotal event in the establishment of the Nazi regime in Germany.
• 1989 ? A wave of protests, riots and looting known as the Caracazo resulted in a death toll of between 276 and 2,000 people in the Venezuelan capital Caracas and its surrounding towns.
• 2015 ? Russian statesman and politician Boris Nemtsov , an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin , was assassinated in central Moscow .

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