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Events [ ] 1329 - Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.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 .1613 - First English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove , Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy .1625 - Charles I becomes King of England , Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France .1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth 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 central Alabama , United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend .1834 - Andrew Jackson is censured by the U.S. Senate for his actions regarding the U.S. National Bank.1836 - Texas Revolution : Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad .1846 - Mexican-American War : Siege of Fort Texas .1851 - First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley .1854 - Crimean War : United Kingdom declares war on Russia .1868 - ??The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego .1871 - First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland , played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place .1881 - Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperence by the Salvation Army 1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville , killing 76 and injuring 200.1906 - Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg .1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania .1938 - Battle of Tai er zhuang .1941 - World War II : Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup .1942 - World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire , France .1943 - World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska .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.1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union .1963 - Dr. Richard 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 .1968 - Yuri Gagarin , Soviet Cosmonaut, first human in space dies in aircraft training accident.1969 - Mariner 7 is launched.1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight1971 - SS Texaco Oklahoma breaks in half and sinks off Cape Hatteras, killing 31 of 44 aboard.1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC Metro system is opened.1977 - Tenerife disaster : Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands , killing 583 (all 247 on KLM and 335 on PAN AM) and 61 survived on a PAN AM flight.1980 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea , killing 123 of its crew of 212.1980 - Silver Thursday market crash.
1984 - A new Musical, Starlight Express opens on the West End in London. Cast include Ray Shell as Rusty the Steam Engine and Stephanie Lawrence as Pearl the Observation Car .1986 - Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne , killing 1 police officer, Angela Taylor , and injuring 21 people.1990 - The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China .1994 - One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States . One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence , the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States .1999 - Kosovo War : Army of Yugoslavia downed F117A nighthawk .2002 - Passover Massacre : A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya , Israel .2004 - HMS Scylla , a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall , the first of its kind in Europe .2006 - The UN Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.2007 - Michael Phelps breaks world record in 200m freestyle with time of 1:43.86 in Melbourne Australia.Births [ ] 972 - King Robert II of France (d. 1031 )1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi , Italian composer (d. 1480 )1627 - Stephen Fox , English politician (d. 1716 )1676 - Francis II Rákóczi , leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (d. 1735 )1696 - Antoine Court , French Huguenot minister (d. 1760 )1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin , German composer (d. 1762 )1712 - Claude Bourgelat , French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779 )1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria , Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795 )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 (d. 1891 )1810 - William Hepworth Thompson , English classical scholar (d. 1886 )1813 - Nathaniel Currier , American illustrator (d. 1888 )1817 - Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli , Swiss biologist (d. 1891 )1845 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923 )1847 - Otto Wallach , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 )1851 - Vincent d'Indy , French composer and teacher (d. 1931 )1857 - Karl Pearson , English statistician (d. 1936 )1859 - George Giffen , Australian cricketer (d. 1927 )1860 - Frank Frost Abbott , American classical scholar (d. 1924 )1863 - Sir Henry Royce , English automobile pioneer (d. 1933 )1869 - James McNeill , Irish politician (d. 1938 )1871 - Heinrich Mann , German writer (d. 1950 )1879 - Miller Huggins , American baseball player and manager (d. 1929 )1883 - Marie Under , Estonian author and poet (d. 1980 )1886 - Sergey Kirov , Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934 )1886 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , German architect (d. 1969 )
1892 - Ferde Grofé , American composer (d. 1972 )1893 - Karl Mannheim , Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947 )1899 - Gloria Swanson , American actress (d. 1983 )1897 - Douglas Hartree , English mathematical physicist (d. 1958 )1901 - Carl Barks , American illustrator (d. 2000 )1901 - Sasaki Naojiro , Japanese author (d. 1943 )
1901 - Erich Ollenhauer , German politician (d. 1963 )
1901 - Eisaku Sato , Prime Minister of Japan , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975 )
1901 - Kenneth Slessor , Australian poet (d. 1971 )
1902 - Charles Lang , American cinematographer (d. 1998 )1905 - Elsie MacGill , Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980 )1906 - Pee Wee Russell , American musician (d. 1969 )1909 - Golo Mann , German historian (d. 1994 )1909 - Ben Webster , American jazz saxophonist (d. 1973 )
1912 - James Callaghan , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005 )1913 - Theodor Dannecker , SS officer (d. 1945 )1914 - Richard Denning , American actor (d. 1998 )1914 - Budd Schulberg , American screenwriter and novelist
1915 - Robert Lockwood Jr. , American blues guitarist (d. 2006 )1917 - Cyrus Vance , American politician (d. 2002 )1920 - Robin Jacques , illustrator (d. 1995 )1921 - Harold Nicholas , American dancer (d. 2000 )1922 - Stefan Wul , French author (d. 2003 )1923 - Endo Shusaku , Japanese author (d. 1996 )1923 - Louis Simpson , Jamaican-born poet
1924 - Sarah Vaughan , American singer (d. 1990 )1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich , Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007 )1931 - David Janssen , American actor (d. 1980 )1935 - Abelardo Castillo , Argentine writer1935 - Julian Glover , British actor
1937 - Thomas Aquinas Daly , American painter1939 - Cale Yarborough , American race car driver1940 - Janis Martin , American singer (d. 2007 )1941 - Ivan Gašparovič , President of Slovakia 1942 - John E. Sulston , British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1942 - Michael York , English actor
1942 - Michael Jackson , English writer (d. 2007 )
1943 - Phil Frank , American cartoonist (d. 2007 )1946 - Olaf Malolepski , German musician (Die Flippers )1947 - Brian Jones , British balloonist1947 - Walt Mossberg , the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
1950 - Tony Banks , English musician (Genesis )1950 - Lynn McGlothen , American baseball player (d. 1984 )
1952 - Maria Schneider , French actress1952 - Richard Séguin , Quebec singer and songwriter
1956 - Leung Kwok Hung , Hong Kong activist1956 - Thomas Wassberg , Swedish cross-country skier
1957 - Nick Hawkins , British politician1957 - Billy Mackenzie , Scottish musician (Associates ) (d. 1997 )
1959 - Andrew Farriss , Australian musician (INXS )1960 - Hans Pflügler , German footballer1961 - Tak Matsumoto , Japanese guitarist (B'z )1961 - Tony Rominger , Swiss cyclist
1962 - Jann Arden , Canadian musician1963 - Charly Alberti , Argentinian musician1963 - Randall Cunningham American football player
1963 - Quentin Tarantino , American director, writer, and producer
1963 - Xuxa , Brazilian television personality
1964 - Glenn Carter , English actor and singer-songwriter1966 - Paula Trickey , American actress1967 - Paul Adams , American celebrity1967 - Talisa Soto , American actress
1968 - Sandra Hess , Swiss-born actress and model1969 - Pauley Perrette , American actress, photographer, poet, writer
1969 - Mariah Carey , American singer1970 - Brent Fitz , Canadian Musician (Theory of a Deadman )1970 - Brendan Hill , British drummer (Blues Traveler )
1970 - Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001 )
1970 - Elizabeth Mitchell , American actress
1971 - Thom Barron , German porn star1971 - David Coulthard , Scottish Formula One driver
1971 - Nathan Fillion , Canadian actor
1972 - Charlie Haas , professional wrestler1972 - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink , Dutch footballer
1974 - Russ Haas , wrestler (d. 2001 )1974 - Gaizka Mendieta , Spanish footballer
1975 - Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson , American musician (Black Eyed Peas )1976 - Carl Ng , Hong Kong/British actor and model1977 - Violet Blue , American porn star1977 - Vitor Meira , Brazilian racing driver
1977 - Adrian Anca , Romanian footballer
1979 - Michael Cuddyer , Minnesota Twins baseball player1981 - Lin Jun Jie , Chinese Singer1981 - Terry McFlynn , Northern Irish footballer
1982 - Kurara Chibana , Japanese beauty queen, first runner-up Miss Universe 2006 1985 - Caroline Winberg , Swedish supermodel1986 - Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham , American professional wrestling valet1987 - Chad Denny , Canadian ice hockey player1988 - Brenda Song , American actress1991 - Thomas Brown , successful Canadian young entrepreneur1995 - Taylor Atelian , American actress1997 - Princess Sara bint Al Faisal , of Jordan1997 - Princess Aisha bint Al Faisal , of Jordan Deaths [ ] 973 - Herman 1191 - Pope Clement III 1350 - King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312 )1378 - Pope Gregory XI 1462 - Vasili II of Russia , Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415 )1482 - Mary of Burgundy , daughter of Charles the Bold ; wife of Maximilian I (b. 1457 )1555 - William Hunter , Protestant martyr1572 - Girolamo Maggi , Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523 )1625 - King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566 )1635 - Robert Naunton , English politician (b. 1563 )1697 - Simon Bradstreet , English colonial magistrate (b. 1603 )1757 - Johann Stamitz , Czech-born composer (b. 1717 )1770 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , Italian artist (b. 1696 )1809 - Joseph-Marie Vien , French painter (b. 1716 )1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric , 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 (b. 1776 )1850 - Wilhelm Beer , German 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 , English architect (b. 1811 )1889 - John Bright , English statesman (b. 1811 )1897 - Andreas Anagnostakis , Greek physician (b. 1826 )1898 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan , Indian Muslim intellectual (b. 1817 )1910 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz , American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835 )1918 - Henry Adams , American historian (b. 1838 )1923 - Sir James Dewar , Scottish chemist (b. 1842 )1924 - Walter Parratt , English composer (b. 1841 )1926 - Georges Vézina , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887 )1927 - Joe Start , American baseball player (b. 1842 )1931 - Arnold Bennett , British novelist (b. 1867 )1940 - Michael Joseph Savage , Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872 )1967 - Jaroslav Heyrovský , Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890 )1967 - Jim Thompson , American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906 )
1968 - Yuri Gagarin , Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934 )1972 - Sharkey Bonano , American musician (b. 1904 )1972 - M.C. Escher , Dutch artist (b. 1898 )
1977 - A. P. Hamann , American politician1977 - Diana Hyland , American actress (b. 1936 )
1981 - Mao Dun , Chinese writer (b. 1895 )1989 - May Allison , American actress (b. 1890 )1989 - Jack Starrett , American actor and film director (b. 1936 )
1991 - Ralph Bates , British actor (b. 1940 )1991 - Aldo Ray , American actor (b. 1926 )
1992 - Easley Blackwood , American bridgeplayer 1992 sander ovhey was born1993 - Clifford Jordan , American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1931 )1993 - Paul László , Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900 )
1998 - David McClelland , American psychologist (b. 1917 )1998 - Ferry Porsche , Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909 )
2000 - Ian Dury , English musician (b. 1942 )2002 - Milton Berle , American actor and comedian (b. 1908 )2002 - Dudley Moore , British actor (b. 1935 )
2002 - Billy Wilder , American director (b. 1906 )
2003 - Daniel Ceccaldi , French actor (b. 1927 )2003 - Ricardo Munguia , Salvadoran aid worker
2003 - Paul Zindel , American writer (b. 1936 )
2004 - Adán Sánchez , Mexican-American singer (b. 1984 )2005 - Wilfred Bigelow , Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913 )2005 - Bob Casey , American baseball announcer (b. 1925 )
2005 - Grant Johannesen , American concert pianist (b. 1921 )
2006 - Dan Curtis , American television producer and director (b. 1928 )2006 - Stanisław Lem , Polish writer (b. 1921 )
2006 - Ruari McLean , British typographer (b. 1917 )
2006 - Lyn Nofziger , American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924 )
2007 - Paul Lauterbur , American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929 )Holidays and observances [ ] Liturgical feasts [ ] External links [ ]
186 Familypedia people were born on March 27
183 Familypedia people died on March 27
87 Familypedia people were first married on March 27