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• ...that Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington all visited the Yelverton Inn (pictured) in Chester, New York?
• ...that John Duncan, a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and missionary, was affectionately known as "Rabbi", due to his knowledge of Hebrew and his passion for the Jewish people?
• ...that softball pitcher Vicki Morrow was named Big Ten Player of the Year in 1987 after winning 26 games, including 18 shutouts, and striking out 446 batters?
• ...that the 1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours included peerages for the heads of the British armed services of World War II and the first awards of the newly inaugurated Defence Medal?
• ...that that The Monkees' 1967 hit "Pleasant Valley Sunday" was named for a street in West Orange, New Jersey, where the song's authors, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, lived?
• ...that a study by the University of Salford concluded that the high density of high-rise buildings in Salford has "a dramatic influence on the region's weather patterns", in particular by encouraging drizzle?
• ...that the February 9, 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers that helped clear Bolshevik forces from Ukraine?
  

• The euro reaches a record closure exchange rate of US$1.5044.
• The New York Philharmonic becomes the first Western orchestra to perform a concert in North Korea.
• No Country for Old Men wins four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
• The National Assembly of People's Power unanimously selects Raúl Castro (pictured) to succeed his brother Fidel as President of Cuba.
• Dimitris Christofias of the Progressive Party of Working People is elected President of Cyprus.
• Turkey launches a ground incursion against the Kurdistan Workers Party in northern Iraq.
• The U.S. Navy launches a missile to destroy the spy satellite USA 193.
• Forty-six people die in the crash of Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 in Venezuela.

February 27: Arba'een in Shi'a Islam (2008); Independence Day in the Dominican Republic.

• 1594 – The King of Navarre was crowned King Henry IV of France at the Cathedral of Chartres near Paris, beginning the Bourbon dynasty.
• 1801 – Washington, D.C., a new planned city and capital of the United States, was placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
• 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.
• 1940 – American biochemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered the radioactive isotope carbon-14, which today is used extensively as the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date archaeological, geological, and hydrogeological samples.
• 1976 – The rebel movement Polisario Front proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara.

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