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Birthday March 27, 1785 Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during French Rev |
Birthday March 27, 1813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives) |
Birthday March 27, 1845 Wilhelm Rontgen, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901) |
Birthday March 27, 1847 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910) |
Birthday March 27, 1863 Sir Henry Royce, Rolls-Royce founder |
Birthday March 27, 1871 Heinrich Mann, German novelist & essayist |
Birthday March 27, 1879 Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography |
Birthday March 27, 1892 Ferde Grofe, composer |
Birthday March 27, 1899 Gloria Swanson, Actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) |
Birthday March 27, 1901 Sato Eisaku, (Lib), Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974) |
Birthday March 27, 1903 Walt Kiesling, NFL guard, coach |
Birthday March 27, 1912 James Callaghan, (Labour), British PM (1976-79) |
Birthday March 27, 1914 Snooky Lanson |
Birthday March 27, 1914 Budd Schulberg, author |
Birthday March 27, 1917 Cyrus R. Vance, Sec of State |
Birthday March 27, 1923 Poet Louis Simpson born |
Birthday March 27, 1924 Sarah Vaughn, Newark NJ, jazz singer |
Birthday March 27, 1927 Anthony Lewis, Newspaper columnist |
Birthday March 27, 1934 Arthur Mitchell, choreographer |
Birthday March 27, 1939 March Madness is born |
Birthday March 27, 1939 Cale Yarborough, auto racer |
Birthday March 27, 1942 Michael York, Actor (Cabaret) |
Birthday March 27, 1952 Maria Schneider, Last Tango in Paris |
Birthday March 27, 1953 Annemarie Proell, Alpine skier |
Birthday March 27, 1956 Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos) |
History March 27, 1512 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Fla |
History March 27, 1625 Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne |
History March 27, 1775 Jefferson elected to the Continental Congress |
History March 27, 1794 Pres Washington & Congress creates US Navy |
History March 27, 1802 Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers |
History March 27, 1807 Vesta (asteroid) discovered by OLbers |
History March 27, 1829 Jackson appoints John Eaton as secretary of war and starts scandal |
History March 27, 1836 Mexicans execute defenders of Goliad |
History March 27, 1836 1st Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland Ohio |
History March 27, 1855 Abraham Gesner receives a patent for kerosene |
History March 27, 1860 ML Byrn patents corkscrew (NY) |
History March 27, 1865 Lincoln, Sherman and Grant meet |
History March 27, 1905 Fingerprint evidence is used to solve a British murder case |
History March 27, 1912 1st Japanese cherry trees planted in Wash DC |
History March 27, 1912 Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac |
History March 27, 1917 Seattle Metropolitans 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens |
History March 27, 1918 Bessarabia annexed by Romania |
History March 27, 1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized |
History March 27, 1945 Germans launch last of their V-2s |
History March 27, 1945 Gen Eisenhower declared German defenses on Western Front broken |
History March 27, 1952 Toyota founder dies |
History March 27, 1958 Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier |
History March 27, 1958 Khrushchev became Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party |
History March 27, 1964 Earthquake rocks Alaska |
History March 27, 1964 Earthquake strikes Alaska - 8.4 on Richter scale - 100 die |
History March 27, 1965 South Vietnamese forces conduct combat operations in Cambodia |
History March 27, 1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated |
History March 27, 1968 Yuri Gagarin - 1st man to orbit Earth & Seryogin died in a plane crash |
History March 27, 1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus |
History March 27, 1973 Bombing of Cambodia to continue |
History March 27, 1973 Marlon Brando declines Best Actor Oscar |
History March 27, 1977 Diana Hyland dies at 40 |
History March 27, 1977 Jumbo jets collide at Canary Islands airport |
History March 27, 1977 582 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM 747-Pan Am 747 crash |
History March 27, 1979 Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton are married |
History March 27, 1980 Mt. St. Helens becomes active after 123 years |
History March 27, 1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking |
History March 27, 1990 TV Marti begins broadcasting to Cuba |