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March 27''' is the
86 (number) 86th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (87th in
Leap years). There are 279 days remaining.
Events
*
1513 - (not
1512 as often cited) -
Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights
North America (specifically
Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another
island.
*
1625 -
Charles I of England Charles I becomes
British monarchy King of
England,
Scotland and
Ireland as well as claiming the title
English claims to the French throne King of France.
*
1782 -
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
*
1794 - The
government of the United States establishes a permanent
United States Navy and authorizes the building of six
sailing frigate frigates.
*1794 -
Denmark and
Sweden form a
neutrality compact.
*
1814 -
War of 1812: In central
Alabama,
United States forces under
General Andrew Jackson defeat the
Creek (people) Creek at the
Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
*
1836 -
Texas Revolution:
Goliad massacre -
Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the
Mexico Mexican army to kill about 400
Republic of Texas Texans at
Goliad, Texas.
*
1846 -
Mexican-American War:
Siege of Fort Texas.
*
1851 - First reported case of
Europeans seeing
Yosemite Valley.
*
1868 - The
Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in
Oswego, New York.
*
1871 - First international
rugby football match,
England national rugby union team England v.
Scotland national rugby union team Scotland, played in
Edinburgh at
Raeburn Place.
*
1890 - A tornado strikes
Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
*
1906 - Founding of the
Alpine Club of Canada in
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
*
1918 -
Moldova and
Bessarabia annexed to
Romania.
*
1923 -
FART construction completed.
*
1938 -
Battle of Tai er zhuang.
*
1942 -
World War II:
United Kingdom forces raid the
U-boat base at
St. Nazaire,
France.
*
1945 -
World War II:
Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of
Japan's ports and waterways begins.
*
1958 -
Nikita Khrushchev becomes
Premier of the Soviet Union.
*
1961 - In Vienna at the 9th World Congress of the INTERNATIONAL THEATRE INSTITUTE in June 1961 that President Arvi Kivimaa proposed on behalf of the Finnish Centre of the International Theatre Institute that a WORLD THEATRE DAY be instituted. The proposal, backed by the Scandinavian centres, was carried with acclamation.
*
1963 -
Richard Beeching Dr Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the
United Kingdom's rail network. See
Beeching axe.
*
1964 - The
Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in
U.S. history at a
Richter scale magnitude of 9.2 strikes
South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of
Anchorage, Alaska Anchorage.
*
1969 -
Mariner 7 is launched.
*
1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the
Washington, DC metro subway system is opened.
*
1977 -
Tenerife disaster: Two
jumbo jets collide on a foggy runway on
Tenerife in the
Canary Islands, killing 583.
*
1980 - The
Norwegian oil platform
Alexander Kielland (Platform) Alexander Kielland collapses in the
North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
*1980 -
Silver Thursday market crash.
*
1986 -
Car bomb explodes at
Russell Street Bombing Russell Street Police HQ in
Melbourne, killing 1 police officer,
Angela Taylor, and injuring 21 people.
*
1988 -
Moudud Ahmed becomes
Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
*
1990 -
Propaganda: The
United States begins broadcasting
TV Martà to
Cuba.
*
1993 -
Jiang Zemin is appointed
President of the
People's Republic of China.
*1993 -
Albert Zafy becomes
President of
Madagascar.
*1993 -
Mahamane Ousmane becomes
President of
Niger.
*
1994 - One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the
Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in
Piedmont, Alabama during
Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
*
2002 -
Passover Massacre: A
suicide bomber kills 29 people in
Netanya,
Israel.
*
2004 -
HMS Scylla (F71) HMS ''Scylla'', a decommissioned
Leander class frigate Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off
Cornwall, the first of its kind in
Europe.
*
2006 - The
United Nations Commission on Human Rights UN Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
Births
*
972 - King
Robert I of France (d.
1031)
*
1416 -
Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d.
1480)
*
1627 -
Stephen Fox, English politician (d.
1716)
*
1702 -
Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (d.
1762)
*
1712 -
Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d.
1779)
*
1714 -
Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d.
1795)
*
1730 -
Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar (d.
1786)
*
1746 -
Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d.
1767)
*
1765 -
Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d.
1841)
*
1785 - King
Louis XVII of France (d.
1795)
*
1797 -
Alfred de Vigny, French author (d.
1863)
*
1809 -
Baron Haussmann, French civic planner (d.
1891)
*
1810 -
William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d.
1886)
*
1813 -
Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d.
1888)
*
1817 -
Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d.
1891)
*
1845 -
Wilhelm Röntgen Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1923)
*
1847 -
Otto Wallach, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1931)
*
1851 -
Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d.
1931)
*
1857 -
Karl Pearson, English statistician (d.
1936)
*
1860 -
Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d.
1924)
*
1863 - Sir
Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d.
1933)
*
1869 -
James McNeill, Irish politician (d.
1938)
*
1871 -
Heinrich Mann, German writer (d.
1950)
*
1882 -
Ferde Grofé, American composer (d.
1972)
*
1883 -
Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d.
1980)
*
1886 -
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d.
1969)
*
1893 -
Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d.
1947)
*
1899 -
Gloria Swanson, American actress (d.
1983)
*
1901 -
Carl Barks, American illustrator (d.
2000)
* 1901 -
Sasaki Naojiro, Japanese author (d.
1943)
* 1901 -
Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d.
1963)
* 1901 -
Eisaku Sato,
Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1975)
*1901 -
Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d.
1971)
*
1905 -
Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d.
1980)
*
1906 -
Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d.
1969)
*
1909 -
Golo Mann, German historian (d.
1994)
*
1912 -
James Callaghan,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
2005)
*
1914 -
Richard Denning, American actor (d.
1998)
* 1914 -
Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist
*
1915 -
Junior Lockwood, American musician
*
1917 -
Cyrus Vance, American politician (d.
2002)
*
1921 -
Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d.
2000)
*
1922 -
Stefan Wul, French author (d.
2003)
*
1923 -
Endo Shusaku, Japanese author (d.
1996)
* 1923 -
Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet
*
1924 -
Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d.
1990)
*
1927 -
Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor
*
1931 -
David Janssen, American actor (d.
1980)
*
1935 -
Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
* 1935 -
Julian Glover, British actor
*
1939 -
Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
*
1941 -
Ivan GaÅ¡paroviÄ?,
President of Slovakia
*
1942 -
John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1942 -
Michael York (actor) Michael York, English actor
*
1947 -
Brian Jones (aeronaut) Brian Jones, British balloonist
*
1949 -
Leigh Steinberg, American
sports agent
*
1950 -
Tony Banks (musician) Tony Banks, English musician (
Genesis (band) Genesis)
*
1952 -
Maria Schneider (actress) Maria Schneider, French actress
*
1956 -
Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong political activist
*
1957 -
Nick Hawkins, British politician
*
1959 -
Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (
INXS)
*
1961 -
Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (
B'z)
*
1962 -
Jann Arden, Canadian musician
*
1963 -
Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
* 1963 -
Xuxa,
Brazilian television personality
*
1966 -
Paula Trickey, American actress
*
1967 -
Talisa Soto, American actress
* 1968 -
Sandra Hess, Swiss-born actress and model
*
1969 -
Keith Flint, Member of British group
The Prodigy
*
1970 -
Mariah Carey, American singer
*
1970 - Brendan Hill, British musician
Blues Traveler
* 1970 -
Princess Leila of Iran (d.
2001)
*
1971 -
David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver
*
1972 -
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch football striker
*
1974 -
Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
*
1975 -
Stacy Ferguson Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, American musician (
Black Eyed Peas)
*
1981 -
Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
*
1986 - "
Baby M," the subject of an infamous custody battle
*
1988 -
Brenda Song, Asian American actress
*
1995 -
Taylor Atelian, American actress
Deaths
*
1191 -
Pope Clement III
*
1350 - King
Alfonso XI of Castile, (b.
1312)
*
1378 -
Pope Gregory XI
*
1462 -
Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b.
1415)
*
1482 -
Mary of Burgundy, daughter of
Charles of Burgundy Charles the Bold and wife of
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1457)
*
1555 -
William Hunter (Protestant martyr) William Hunter, protestant martyr
*
1572 -
Girolamo Maggi, Italian
Renaissance man (b. abt.
1523)
*
1615 -
Marguerite de Valois, queen of
Henry IV of France (b.
1553)
*
1625 - King
James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b.
1566)
*
1635 -
Robert Naunton, English politician (b.
1563)
*
1697 -
Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b.
1603)
*
1757 -
Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b.
1717)
*
1770 -
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (b.
1696)
*
1809 -
Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b.
1716)
*
1827 -
François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, French social reformer (b.
1747)
*
1836 -
James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b.
1804)
*
1843 -
Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b.
1769)
*
1849 -
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b.
1776)
*
1850 -
Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b.
1797)
*
1864 -
Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b.
1800)
*
1865 -
Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b.
1786)
*
1873 -
Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b.
1797)
*
1875 -
Edgar Quinet, French historian (b.
1803)
*
1878 - Sir
George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b.
1811)
*
1889 -
John Bright, English statesman (b.
1811)
*
1910 -
Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist and engineer (b.
1835)
*
1918 -
Henry Adams, American historian (b.
1838)
*
1923 - Sir
James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b.
1842)
*
1924 -
Walter Parratt, English composer (b.
1841)
*
1927 -
Joe Start, baseball player (b.
1842)
*
1931 -
Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b.
1867)
*
1940 -
Michael Joseph Savage,
Prime Minister of New Zealand (b.
1872)
*
1967 -
Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1890)
* 1967 -
Jim Thompson (designer) Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b.
1906)
*
1968 -
Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut, first man in space (b.
1934)
*
1969 -
B. Traven, German writer
*
1972 -
Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b.
1904)
* 1972 -
M.C. Escher, Dutch artist (b.
1898)
*
1977 -
A. P. Hamann, American politician
* 1977 -
Diana Hyland, American actress (b.
1936)
*
1981 -
Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b.
1895)
*
1989 -
May Allison, American actress (b.
1890)
* 1989 -
Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b.
1936)
*
1991 -
Ralph Bates, British actor (b.
1940)
* 1991 -
Aldo Ray, American actor (b.
1926)
*
1992 -
Easley Blackwood (bridge player) Easley Blackwood, American bridge player (b.
1903)
*
1993 -
Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b.
1900)
*
1998 -
David McClelland, psychological theorist (b.
1917)
* 1998 -
Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b.
1909)
*
2000 -
Ian Dury, English rock musician (b.
1942)
*
2002 -
Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b.
1908)
* 2002 -
Dudley Moore, British actor, musician, and composer (b.
1935)
* 2002 -
Billy Wilder, American director (b.
1906)
*
2003 -
Ricardo Munguia, aid worker in Afghanistan
* 2003 -
Paul Zindel, American writer (b.
1936)
*
2005 -
Bob Casey, baseball announcer (b.
1925)
*
2006 -
Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b.
1921)
* 2006 -
Dan Curtis, TV producer (b.
1928)
* 2006 -
Lyn Nofziger, American journalist, political advisor to
Ronald Reagan (b.
1924)
Holidays and observances
*
Angolan
Victory Day.
-
World Theatre Day
liturgical feasts
*Feast day of
Rupert of Salzburg in the
Roman Catholic Church.
*
St. John of Egypt
*
St. Augusta
*
St. Lydia
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
Today in History: March 27
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March 26 -
March 28 -
February 27 -
April 27 --
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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ar:27 مارس
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ast:27 de marzu
bg:27 март
be:27 Ñ?акавіка
bs:27. mart
br:27 Meurzh
ca:27 de març
ceb:Marso 27
cv:Пуш, 27
co:27 di marzu
cs:27. březen
cy:27 Mawrth
da:27. marts
de:27. März
et:27. märts
el:27 ΜαÏ?τίου
es:27 de marzo
eo:27-a de marto
eu:Martxoaren 27
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fr:27 mars
fy:27 maart
fur:27 di Març
ga:27 Márta
gl:27 de marzo
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hr:27. ožujka
io:27 di marto
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is:27. mars
it:27 marzo
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jv:27 Maret
ka:27 მ�რტი
csb:27 strumiannika
ku:27'ê adarê
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lb:27. Mäerz
hu:Március 27
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nap:27 'e mà rzo
nl:27 maart
ja:3月27日
no:27. mars
nn:27. mars
oc:27 de març
pl:27 marca
pt:27 de Março
ro:27 martie
ru:27 марта
sco:27 Mairch
sq:27 Mars
scn:27 di marzu
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fi:27. maaliskuuta
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te:మార�చి 27
th:27 มีนาคม
vi:27 tháng 3
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wa:27 di måss
war:Marso 27
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