March 27
March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years ). There are 279 days remaining.
Events
1306 - Robert I of Scotland and Elizabeth de Burgh are crowned king and Queen of the Scots.
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 becomes King of England and Scotland .
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 frigates .
1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1814 - War of 1812 : In northern Alabama , United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend .
1836 - Texas Revolution : Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas .
1846 - Mexican-American War : Siege of Fort Texas .
1851 - First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley .
1871 - First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland , played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place .
1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania .
1923 - FART construction completed.
1938 - Battle of Tai er zhuang
1941 - Britain supports Peter II of Yugoslavia in a coup in Yugoslavia .
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.
1952 - Sun Records begins operations.
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union .
1963 - 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 magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska , killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage .
1969 - Mariner 7 is launched.
1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC 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 collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1986 - Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne , killing 1 police officer.
1988 - Moudud Ahmed becomes Prime Minister of Bangladesh .
1989 - Generations soap opera to have an entire black family in its original core cast, commences telecasts on NBC .
1990 - Propaganda : The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí 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 28 people in Netanya , Israel .
2003 - An explosion in the Nitrochimie dynamite factory in Billy-Berclau , France kills 4 people.
2004 - HMS Scylla , a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall , the first of its kind in Europe .
Births
972 - King Robert I of France (d. 1031 )
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
1810 - William Hepworth Thompson , English classical scholar (d. 1886 )
1813 - Nathaniel Currier , illustrator
1817 - Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli , Swiss biologist (d. 1891 )
1845 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , physicist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in physics 1901 (d. 1923 )
1847 - Otto Wallach , German chemist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 1931 )
1851 - Vincent d'Indy , French composer and teacher (d. 1931 )
1857 - Karl Pearson , 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
1871 - Heinrich Mann , narrator, dramatist and essayist (d. 1950 )
1886 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , architect (d. 1969 )
1893 - Karl Mannheim , Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947 )
1899 - Gloria Swanson , actress (d. 1983 )
1901 - Carl Barks , Donald Duck illustrator (d. 2000 )
1901 - Sato Eisaku , Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1975 )
1901 - Sasaki Naojiro , Japanese author (d. 1943 )
1901 - Erich Ollenhauer , politician (d. 1963 )
1905 - Elsie MacGill , aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes" (d. 1980 )
1906 - Pee Wee Russell , US jazz musician (d. 1969 )
1907 - Mary Treen , American actress (d. 1989 )
1909 - Golo Mann , historian and publicist (d. 1994 )
1910 - John Pierce , electrical engineer
1912 - James Callaghan , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005 )
1914 - Budd Schulberg , screenwriter and novelist
1914 - Snooky Lanson , American singer (d. 1990 )
1914 - Richard Denning , American actor (d. 1998 )
1915 - Junior Lockwood , American blues musician
1917 - Cyrus Vance , US politician (d. 2002 )
1921 - Harold Nicholas , American dancer (d. 2000 )
1922 - Pierre Pairault aka Stefan Wul , French author (d. 2003 )
1923 - Louis Simpson , poet
1923 - Endo Shusaku , Catholic Japanese author (d. 1996 )
1924 - Sarah Vaughan , singer (d. 1990 )
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich , conductor, musician
1931 - David Janssen , actor (d. 1980 )
1931 - Walter Kieber , Liechtenstein Head of Government (d. 1978 )
1935 - Julian Glover , British actor
1939 - Cale Yarborough , NASCAR race car driver
1940 - Austin Pendleton , American actor
1942 - Michael York , actor
1947 - Brian Jones , British balloonist
1950 - Tony Banks , musician of Genesis
1952 - Maria Schneider , French actress
1954 - Wally Stocker , musician of The Babys
1957 - Nick Hawkins , British politician
1959 - Andrew Farriss , musician of INXS
1961 - Tak Matsumoto , Japanese guitarist (B'z )
1962 - Jann Arden , Canadian musician
1963 - Quentin Tarantino , actor, director, writer, producer
1963 - Xuxa , television personality
1967 - Talisa Soto , actress
1968 - Sadie Frost , British actress
1970 - Mariah Carey , singer
1970 - Brendan Hill , musician ("Blues Traveler ")
1970 - Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001 )
1971 - David Coulthard , Formula One racing driver
1975 - Fergie , American musician (Black Eyed Peas )
1986 - Baby M
Deaths
1191 - Pope Clement III
1350 - King Alfonso XI of Castile , (b. 1312 )
1378 - Pope Gregory XI , (b. c. 1336 )
1555 - William Hunter (Protestant martyr)
1615 - Margaret of 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 )
1757 - Johann Stamitz , Czech composer and violinist, (b. 1717 )
1770 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , (b. 1696 )
1809 - Joseph-Marie Vien , French painter, (b. 1716 )
1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt , (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 , 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 , architect, (b. 1811 )
1889 - John Bright , (b. 1811 )
1910 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz , US scientist and engineer, (b. 1835 )
1918 - Henry Adams , historian and novelist, (b. 1838 )
1923 - Sir James Dewar , chemist , (b. 1842 )
1924 - Walter Parratt , 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 - Jim Thompson (designer) , disappeared, (b. 1906 )
1968 - Yuri Gagarin , the first man in space, (b. 1934 )
1969 - B. Traven , writer
1972 - M. C. Escher , Dutch artist, (b. 1898 )
1972 - Sharkey Bonano , jazz musician, (b. 1904 )
1977 - A. P. Hamann , American politician
1977 - Diana Hyland , American actress
1991 - Ralph Bates , British actor, (b. 1940 )
1991 - Aldo Ray , American actor
1992 - Easley Blackwood , (b. 1903 )
1993 - Paul Laszlo , interior designer, architect, (b. 1900 )
1998 - David McClelland , psychological theorist, (b. 1917 )
1998 - Ferry Porsche , founder of Porsche car manufacturer, (b. 1909 )
2000 - Ian Dury , English rock musician, (b. 1942 )
2002 - Milton Berle , actor, comedian, (b. 1908 )
2002 - Dudley Moore , actor, musician, composer (b. 1935 )
2002 - Billy Wilder , director, (b. 1906 )
2003 - Ricardo Munguia , aid worker in Afghanistan
2003 - Joseph Menusa , first soldier from the Philippines to die in the 2003 Iraq War, (b. 1970 )
2003 - Paul Zindel , American author and playwright
2005 - Bob Casey , long-time Public Address announcer for the Minnesota Twins, (b. 1925 )
Holidays and observances
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