March 27

2024 Calendar

March 27 is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

47 BC – The Relocation of Power of Cleopatra VII with help Roman dictator Julius Caesar in Egypt.
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 sailing 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 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.
1854 - Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1871 – The first international rugby football match, Scotland v. England, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1886 - Apache warrior Geronimo surrenders to the United States Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1890 - A tornado hits Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 people.
1899 - Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time in the Philippine-American War.

1901 – 2000

1910 - A fire at a barn-dance in Hungary kills 312 people.
1915 - Mary Mallon, known as Typhoid Mary, is quarantined for the rest of her life.
1918 – Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
1923 – FART construction completed.
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.
1975 - Building work on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline begins in Alaska.
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.
1981 - The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a "warning strike", as 12 million workers walk out for 4 hours.
1984 - The musical Starlight Express is first performed in London.
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.
1995 - Forrest Gump wins six awards at the 67th Academy Awards.
1996 – Yigal Amir is sentenced to life in prison for murdering Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

From 2001

2002 – Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 28 people in Netanya, Israel.
2002 - Nanterre Massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire on councilors at the end of a town council meeting, killing 8 councilors and injuring 19.
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.
2006 – The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
2008 – Geert Wilders releases a movie called Fitna. The next days protests were held by people in the Middle East.
2009 – The Situ Gintung Dam breaks in Indonesia, leading to at least 99 deaths.
2009 - A suicide bomber kills at least 48 people at a mosque in Khyber Agency, Pakistan.
2016 - A bomb attack on people celebrating Easter in Lahore, Pakistan, kills over 70 people.