Notable Historical Events on March 27th
March 27th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
196 |
Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. |
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1309 |
Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population. |
1329 |
Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. |
1513 |
Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida |
1599 |
Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland |
1613 |
The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy. |
1625 |
Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne |
1642 |
The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office. |
1668 |
English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company |
1708 |
Pretender to the English throne James III flees to Dunkirk |
1709 |
Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded) |
1713 |
Spain loses Menorca and Gibraltar to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht |
1721 |
France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid |
1782 |
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
1790 |
The modern shoestring (string and shoe holes) invented in England |
1794 |
The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates. |
1794 |
Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact. |
1802 |
Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends |
1808 |
Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna |
1814 |
Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama |
1836 |
1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland, Ohio) |
1841 |
1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC |
1848 |
John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster |
1849 |
Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill |
1855 |
Abraham Gesner patents kerosene |
1860 |
M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew) |
1863 |
American Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer |
1865 |
Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals |
1866 |
Andrew Rankin patents the urinal |
1866 |
President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment |
1868 |
The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York. |
1871 |
1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0 |
1879 |
Longest championship fight (136 rounds) |
1881 |
Rioting takes place in Basingstoke, Hampshire, in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army. |
1884 |
1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY |
1890 |
A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200. |
1900 |
Recognising that the war in South Africa is going to take a major commitment, Parliament passes the War Loan Act, calling for £35 million to support the fight against the Boers. |
1906 |
Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba |
1910 |
Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312 |
1912 |
1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC |
1914 |
1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) |
1915 |
Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid |
1918 |
Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania. |
1920 |
Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD) |
1924 |
Canada recognizes USSR |
1924 |
New French government of Poincaré begins |
1928 |
KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions |
1928 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
1928 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
1929 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
1929 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
1930 |
1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea |
1931 |
Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor |
1931 |
John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on |
1932 |
De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt |
1933 |
Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized |
1933 |
Japan leaves League of Nations |
1933 |
Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett |
1936 |
WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air |
1937 |
Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam |
1938 |
The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place. |
1939 |
1st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: U of Oregon beats OH State 46-33 |
1941 |
Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years |
1941 |
Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia) |
1941 |
Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul |
1942 |
-28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire |
1942 |
Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward |
1942 |
Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC) |
1943 |
Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau |
1943 |
Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio |
1943 |
US begins assault on Fondouk Pass, Tunisia |
1944 |
1,000 Jews leave Drancy, France, for Auschwitz concentration camp |
1944 |
2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania |
1944 |
40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia, ghetto are shot by the Gestapo |
1944 |
Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno |
1945 |
7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44 |
1945 |
British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine |
1945 |
DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title |
1945 |
Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon" |
1945 |
Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken |
1945 |
Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed |
1945 |
US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden |
1945 |
World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. |
1948 |
The Second Congress of the Workers' Party of North Korea is convened. |
1948 |
Just 11 days after being released from prison, Billie Holiday plays in front of a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall |
1950 |
Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleve OH) |
1950 |
Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China |
1950 |
WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1951 |
13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58 |
1951 |
Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You" |
1952 |
Failed assassination attempt of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer |
1952 |
Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records |
1952 |
"Singin' in the Rain", a musical comedy starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, is released |
1953 |
21 die in a train crash in Conneaut, Ohio |
1955 |
9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win |
1955 |
Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse) |
1955 |
WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
French commandos land in Algeria |
1956 |
US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker" |
1957 |
29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days", Bergman, Brynner win |
1958 |
CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records |
1958 |
Havana Hilton opens |
1958 |
Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party |
1960 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open |
1961 |
Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars |
1961 |
Belgium government of Eyskens resigns |
1961 |
Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen |
1962 |
Ann Jellicoe's "Knack" premieres in London |
1962 |
Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school |
1962 |
Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy |
1963 |
Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. |
1964 |
1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England) |
1964 |
Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die |
1964 |
Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars |
1964 |
UN troops arrive in Cyprus |
1966 |
Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia |
1966 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational |
1968 |
Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in SF |
1968 |
Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia |
1969 |
Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston |
1969 |
Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars |
1970 |
Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey" |
1970 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971 |
33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLA wins their 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title |
1971 |
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) holds its first Annual Conference in the Ulster Hall in Belfast |
1972 |
Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching U of Kentucky |
1972 |
Venera 8 launched to Venus |
1972 |
Ulster Vanguard organise industrial strike against the imposition of direct rule on Northern Ireland by Westminster |
1973 |
Dennis Amiss out for 99 v Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket |
1973 |
Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession |
1973 |
45th Academy Awards - "Godfather", Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians |
1976 |
Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title |
1976 |
Washington DC underground Metro opens |
1977 |
583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife |
1977 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic |
1978 |
40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Duke 94-88 |
1978 |
Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 perfs |
1978 |
Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV |
1979 |
US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can't randomly stop cars |
1980 |
"Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances |
1980 |
"Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances |
1980 |
Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die) |
1980 |
Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years |
1980 |
The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. |
1981 |
John Lennon single "Watching the Wheels" released posthumously in UK |
1982 |
"Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 perfs |
1982 |
Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match v Sri Lanka at Lahore |
1982 |
Randy Holt sets Wash Cap record of 34 penalty minutes |
1983 |
13th Easter Seal Telethon |
1983 |
Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1983 |
Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" premieres in NYC |
1984 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express" premieres |
1984 |
Beginning of "tanker war": over the next 9 months, 44 ships, including Iranian, Iraqi, Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti tankers, are attacked by Iraqi or Iranian warplanes or damaged by mines |
1985 |
Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame |
1986 |
Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking |
1987 |
President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad |
1988 |
Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS) |
1988 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (URS) |
1988 |
Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR) |
1988 |
Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA) |
1988 |
Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament |
1988 |
Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase |
1989 |
1st half-black soap opera, "Generations" premieres on NBC-TV |
1989 |
Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy |
1990 |
Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die |
1990 |
NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final |
1990 |
The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime. |
1991 |
NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992 |
1991 |
New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky |
1991 |
Scotty Bowman inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a "builder" of the game |
1992 |
Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" & "Lucky Town" |
1993 |
Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China. |
1994 |
23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews |
1994 |
Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed |
1994 |
Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS) |
1994 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (RUS) |
1994 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (JPN) |
1994 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (CAN) |
1994 |
The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany. |
1995 |
67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump", Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win |
1996 |
"State Fair" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances |
1997 |
"Young Man From Atlanta" opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances |
1997 |
Martin Luther King's son meets James Earl Ray, his father's killer |
2000 |
Phillips explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas. |
2002 |
Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel. |
2004 |
HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe. |
2006 |
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting. |
2009 |
Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails killing at least 99 people. |
2013 |
12 people are killed in the Philippines after a mini-tornado causes a boat to capsize |
2014 |
UN General Assembly condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea |
2016 |
Another First for Cuba: A Concert by the Rolling Stones |
2016 |
Syrian army recaptures Palmyra from Islamic State: state media |
2016 |
Chile reports its first sexually transmitted Zika case |
2016 |
Pope delivers Easter message of hope after grim week of terror |
2017 |
South Korean Prosecutors Are Seeking to Arrest Park Geun-hye |
2134 |
32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
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