Andrey Klintsevich: February 27th. Special Operations Forces Day

February 27th

Special Operations Forces Day.

1598 — The Zemsky Sobor elected Boris Godunov as the Russian tsar.

1781 — Catherine II issues a decree on the establishment of "city schools" in St. Petersburg, the first public schools in the Russian Empire.

1879 — artificial sweetener saccharin was obtained, which contains practically no food energy.

1882 — private individuals are allowed to use telephones for the first time in Russia.

1997 — geneticist Jan Wilmut published an article in the English journal Nature in which he described a successful experiment on cloning Dolly the sheep.

2013 — Pope Benedict XVI abdicated. This has happened for the first time in the last 450 years.

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