Historical Events on March 27

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• 196 BC Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
• 1003 Peace deal signed between Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor and the pagan Wends (Slavs)
• 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.
• 1351 Battle of the Thirty: 30 English and 30 Breton knights and squires square off using swords, maces, lances and daggers - considered one of the most chivalrous battles in history

• 1599 English nobleman Robert Devereux becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• 1613 The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy

• 1642 The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.

• 1706 Tekle Haymanot I takes the throne as Emperor of Ethiopia, upon the retirement and/or abdication of his father, Iyasu I, at 21
• 1708 James Francis Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales, and pretender to the Great British throne James III flees to Dunkirk after failed invasion attempt
• 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

• 1790 The modern shoelace with an aglet patented in England by Harvey Kennedy
• 1794 Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact
• 1794 The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

• 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

• 1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)

• 1865 Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
• 1866 American Andrew Rankin patents the urinal

• 1868 The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
• 1871 First international rugby union match - Scotland beats England, 1-0 at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh
• 1879 Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
• 1881 Rioting takes place in Basingstoke, Hampshire in England, to protest against the Salvation Army's daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance
• 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, kills 312
• 1912 US First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the bank of the Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C. [1]
• 1914 First successful non-direct blood transfusion is performed by Dr. Albert Hustin in Brussels

• 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
• 1930 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea

• 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 Feijenoord Stadion, home ground of Dutch football club Feyenoord Rotterdam and nicknamed De Kuip opens after 2 years in construction
• 1938 The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.

• 1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
• 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

• 1943 WWII: Dutch resistance fighters burn and bomb the Amsterdam civil registry office in effort to destroy records and prevent the Nazis from identifying Jews and others marked for persecution; about 15% of records destroyed and 12 of the 19 known participants were tried and executed by the Nazi occupiers
• 1943 WWII: US begins assault on Fondouk Pass, Tunisia
• 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 DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title

• 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

• 1950 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
• 1950 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, Kentucky (CBS) begins broadcasting

• 1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
• 1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut, Ohio
• 1955 9th Tony Awards: "The Desperate Hours" (play) & "The Pajama Game" (musical) win

• 1955 WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, Rhode Island (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1956 French commandos land in Algeria

• 1958 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
• 1958 Havana Hilton opens in Cuba, later HQ for Fidel Castro

• 1961 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
• 1961 Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
• 1962 Ann Jellicoe's play "Knack" premieres in London
• 1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orleans Catholic schools

• 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 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
• 1964 The Great Alaska Earthquake (9.2 magnitude) and resulting tsunami kill 139 people in the largest US earthquake and second largest ever recorded
• 1964 UN troops arrive in Cyprus
• 1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco

• 1969 Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
• 1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars

• 1970 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1971 David Heneker and John Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl" close at the Adelphi Theatre, London, after 2,202 performances
• 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 University of Kentucky
• 1972 Ulster Vanguard organise industrial strike against the imposition of direct rule on Northern Ireland by Westminster
• 1972 Venera 8 launches to explore Venus
• 1972 Wyoming officially names "Curt Gowdy State Park", in honor of the nationally recognized broadcaster

• 1973 Dennis Amiss out for 99 v Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket

• 1976 Washington, D.C. underground Metro opens

• 1978 The Rutles mockumentary "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 Elevator in Vaal Reefs gold mine, South Africa plunges more than 1900m killing all 23 miners aboard

• 1980 Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212

• 1982 Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match v Sri Lanka at Lahore
• 1982 Randy Holt sets Wash Cap record of 34 penalty minutes

• 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

• 1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking

• 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 Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament
• 1989 1st African American 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 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

• 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 The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany

• 1998 Chicago Bulls - Atlanta Hawks matchup at Georgia Dome in Atlanta, draws a crowd of 62,046, largest in any game in NBA history; Bulls win, 89-74
• 2000 Phillips explosion 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.
• 2005 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Annika Sörenstam of Sweden wins event for the 3rd time, 8 strokes ahead of American Rosie Jones

• 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.

• 2012 On This Day launches a sister site in Spanish, Hoy en la Historia
• 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
• 2015 Russia's Soyuz TMA-16M launches to deliver three crew members to the international space station to research the long-term effects of micro gravity
• 2016 Suicide bomb kills more than 70 people at a park in Lahore, Pakistan, Taliban connected Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claim responsibility
• 2019 British indie-rock duo "Her's" - English guitarist-singer Stephen Fitzpatrick (24) and Norwegian bassist Audun Laading (25), and American manager Trevor Engelbrektson (37) killed in car crash in Arizona
• 2019 Facebook bans white nationalism and white supremacy following criticism that Christchurch terrorist able to live-stream his attack

• 2019 UK Prime Minister Theresa May promises to stand down if parliament accepts her Brexit plan
• 2019 US Special Council Robert S. Mueller writes a letter to US Attorney William Barr regarding Barr's summary of the Mueller Report stating Barr's letter "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the findings. "There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations."

• 2021 114 people including children killed in one day by armed forces in Myanmar, with more than 420 killed since protests began against the military coup [1]
• 2021 Iran and China sign major agreement guaranteeing Chinese investment of $400 billion and Iranian oil supply in return in Tehran [1]
• 2021 Militants attack the town of Palma, northern Mozambique, killing dozens in an escalation of violence in the area

• 2022 China announces Shanghai will be locked down in two stages over nine days affecting 25 million people to carry out COVID-19 testing [1]

• 2022 El Salvador's parliament declares a state of emergency after 62 gang killings in one day [1]
• 2023 At least 40 people are killed and 28 injured in a fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez on the Mexican US border, amid large numbers of migrants gathering on the Mexican border [1]
• 2023 Convicted rapist fakes his own death by pretending to set himself alight (in reality kills someone else) to escape from prison in South Africa, sparking large manhunt [1]
• 2023 Female shooter kills three children and three adults at private Christian school Convent Elementary, in Nashville, Tennessee, before being shot and killed - 19th US school shooting in three months [1]
• 2023 Germany experiences one of its largest strikes in decades, bringing public transport comes to an almost complete halt, amid calls for higher wages [1]
• 2023 Humza Yousaf elected leader of Scottish SNP party as first ethnic minority leader of a devolved government and first Muslim to lead a major UK party

• 2023 Possibility of bases on the Moon becomes greater possibility after 300 billion tonnes of water, stored in glass beads on Moon's surface, identified in lunar soil samples collected by China’s Chang’e-5 [1]

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