On this day: Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov is murdered in Moscow in 2015

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 27: 1933 – Fire destroyed Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag. 1973 – Native Americans began an occupation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, scene of a massacre in 1890. 1990 – Nelson Mandela arrived in Zambia on his first foreign trip since his release […]

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