#mardis gras

A bit of February 27th history…

1827 - 1st Mardis Gras celebration in New Orleans

1940 - Carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) is discovered in California

1950 - General Chiang Kai-Shek elected president of Nationalist China (pictured)

1996 - 1st ever appearance of Pokemon in roleplaying video game “Pocket Monsters Red and Green” for game boy in Japan

2019 - Michael Cohen, a former lawyer to Trump, testifies before the House Oversight Committee saying Trump is “racist”, a “con man”, and “a cheat”

2020 - Biggest cosmic explosion ever detected from a supermassive black hole in Ophiuchus Galaxy 390 million light years away - size of 15 Milky Ways