March 27th
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, the first American 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)
- 1882 - Ferde Grofé, American
composer (d. 1972)
- 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)
- 1901 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
- 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
- 1968 - Sandra Hess, Hollywood
actress/model
- 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
- 1482 - Mary of Burgundy,
daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1457)
- 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, 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, 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, American scientist and engineer (b. 1835)
- 1918 - Henry Adams, American
historian (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, cosmonaut
(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, bridge player (b. 1903)
- 1993 - Paul Laszlo, 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 author and playwright
- 2005 - Bob Casey, baseball announcer
(b. 1925)
Holidays and observances
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