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Events on the 27th of March in history

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27 Mar 1987 Crown Prince Fuling, later Emperor Zhao of Han, is named as Emperor Wu of Han's successor and heir to the throne. Emperor Wu dies two days later.
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27 Mar 1309 Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
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27 Mar 1329 Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
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27 Mar 1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
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27 Mar 1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
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27 Mar 1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Le
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27 Mar 1599 Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant-General of Ireland
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27 Mar 1613 The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
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27 Mar 1625 Charles I, King Of England, Scotland and Ireland, ascends English throne
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27 Mar 1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
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27 Mar 1668 English King Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
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27 Mar 1708 English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk
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27 Mar 1709 Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)
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27 Mar 1713 Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar
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27 Mar 1721 France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid
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27 Mar 1758 Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine
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27 Mar 1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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27 Mar 1790 The shoelace invented
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27 Mar 1794 US Navy forms
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27 Mar 1794 Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
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27 Mar 1794 The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
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27 Mar 1794 Congress authorizes the President "to provide a naval armament" (US Navy)
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27 Mar 1802 Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
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27 Mar 1808 Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Sch
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27 Mar 1809 Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real.
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27 Mar 1812 Hugh McGary Jr. establishes what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
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27 Mar 1814 War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
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27 Mar 1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-Indians
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27 Mar 1836 Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army butchers 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
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27 Mar 1836 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland OH)
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27 Mar 1841 1st US steam fire engine tested, New York NY
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27 Mar 1848 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
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27 Mar 1849 Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
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27 Mar 1851 First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
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27 Mar 1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
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27 Mar 1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
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27 Mar 1861 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
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27 Mar 1863 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
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27 Mar 1865 Siege of Spanish Fort AL: captured by Federals
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27 Mar 1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
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27 Mar 1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th Amendment
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27 Mar 1871 The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
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27 Mar 1871 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0
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27 Mar 1879 Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
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27 Mar 1881 Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of teetotalism by The Salvation Army.
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27 Mar 1884 A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
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27 Mar 1884 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-New York
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27 Mar 1886 Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
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27 Mar 1890 A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
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27 Mar 1899 Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
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27 Mar 1910 A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
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27 Mar 1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington DC
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27 Mar 1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
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27 Mar 1915 Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
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27 Mar 1917 Seattle Metropolitans, 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens
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27 Mar 1918 Bessarabia is ceded to the Kingdom of Romania.
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27 Mar 1920 Film stars Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks wed
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27 Mar 1920 Hermann M
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27 Mar 1924 Canada recognizes USSR
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27 Mar 1924 New French government of Poincar
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27 Mar 1928 KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
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27 Mar 1928 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson
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27 Mar 1928 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
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27 Mar 1930 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
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27 Mar 1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
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27 Mar 1931 John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
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27 Mar 1932 De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt
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27 Mar 1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
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27 Mar 1933 Japan leaves League of Nations
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27 Mar 1933 Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
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27 Mar 1936 WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
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27 Mar 1937 Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam
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27 Mar 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
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27 Mar 1939 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: University of Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33
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27 Mar 1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
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27 Mar 1941 World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
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27 Mar 1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
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27 Mar 1941 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
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27 Mar 1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
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27 Mar 1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
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27 Mar 1942 Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1
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27 Mar 1942 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York NY)
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27 Mar 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.
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27 Mar 1943 Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau
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27 Mar 1943 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio
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27 Mar 1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
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27 Mar 1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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27 Mar 1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
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27 Mar 1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
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27 Mar 1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
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27 Mar 1945 World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
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27 Mar 1945 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44
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27 Mar 1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
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27 Mar 1945 DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title
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27 Mar 1945 Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"
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27 Mar 1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
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27 Mar 1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed
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27 Mar 1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
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27 Mar 1948 The Second Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea is convened.
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27 Mar 1950 Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleveland OH)
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27 Mar 1950 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
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27 Mar 1950 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
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27 Mar 1951 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58
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27 Mar 1951 Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"
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27 Mar 1952 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
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27 Mar 1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
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27 Mar 1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut OH
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27 Mar 1955 9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win
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27 Mar 1955 Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
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27 Mar 1955 WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence RI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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27 Mar 1956 US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
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27 Mar 1956 French commandos land in Algeria
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27 Mar 1957 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days, " Bergman, Brynner win
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27 Mar 1957 29th Academy Awards: "Around World in 80 Days", Yul Brynner & Ingrid Bergman win
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27 Mar 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
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27 Mar 1958 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
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27 Mar 1958 Havana Hilton opens
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27 Mar 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st Secretary of Communist Party
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27 Mar 1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open
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27 Mar 1961 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
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27 Mar 1961 Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
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27 Mar 1962 Ann Jellicoe's "Knack" premieres in London
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27 Mar 1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
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27 Mar 1962 Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy
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27 Mar 1963 Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
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27 Mar 1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
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27 Mar 1964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die
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27 Mar 1964 The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
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27 Mar 1964 Earthquake strikes Anchorage AK, 9.2 on Richter scale, 131 die from earthquake and resulting tsunami; this is the most violent eathquake in US history
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27 Mar 1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
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27 Mar 1964 UN troops arrive on Cyprus
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27 Mar 1966 Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
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27 Mar 1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational
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27 Mar 1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco
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27 Mar 1968 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia
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27 Mar 1969 Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
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27 Mar 1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190 miles above southern Mars
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27 Mar 1970 Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"
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27 Mar 1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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27 Mar 1971 33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62; this is UCLA's 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title
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27 Mar 1972 Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching University of Kentucky
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27 Mar 1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus
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27 Mar 1973 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather, " Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
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27 Mar 1973 Dennis Amiss out for 99 vs Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket
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27 Mar 1973 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession
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27 Mar 1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
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27 Mar 1976 The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
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27 Mar 1976 Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title
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27 Mar 1976 Washington DC underground Metro opens
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27 Mar 1977 Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
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27 Mar 1977 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash, Tenerife
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27 Mar 1977 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
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27 Mar 1978 Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
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27 Mar 1978 Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 performances
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27 Mar 1979 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars
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27 Mar 1980 "Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
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27 Mar 1980 "Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances
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27 Mar 1980 Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
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27 Mar 1980 The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
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27 Mar 1980 Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900 meter down (23 die)
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27 Mar 1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
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27 Mar 1981 John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in the UK
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27 Mar 1981 The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
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27 Mar 1981 John Lennon's "Watching the Wheels" is released in UK
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27 Mar 1982 "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St. NYC after 1577 performances
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27 Mar 1982 Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match vs Sri Lanka at Lahore
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27 Mar 1982 Randy Holt sets Washington Capital record of 34 penalty minutes
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27 Mar 1983 13th Easter Seal Telethon
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27 Mar 1983 Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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27 Mar 1983 Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" premieres in NYC
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27 Mar 1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express" premieres
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27 Mar 1985 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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27 Mar 1986 A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
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27 Mar 1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
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27 Mar 1987 President Habr
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27 Mar 1988 Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova and O Vasiliev (URS)
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27 Mar 1988 Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
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27 Mar 1988 Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase
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27 Mar 1988 Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament
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27 Mar 1988 World Ice Dance Championship in Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (USSR)
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27 Mar 1988 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (USSR)
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27 Mar 1988 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
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27 Mar 1988 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA)
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27 Mar 1989 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations, " premieres on NBC-TV
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27 Mar 1989 Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
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27 Mar 1990 The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
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27 Mar 1990 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
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27 Mar 1990 New South Wales beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
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27 Mar 1991 NCAA bans University of Minnesota football team from postseason play in 1992
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27 Mar 1991 New Kids on the Block's Donnie Wahlberg arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
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27 Mar 1991 Scotty Bowman & Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame
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27 Mar 1992 Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" and"Lucky Town"
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27 Mar 1992 Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" & "Lucky Town"
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27 Mar 1993 Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
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27 Mar 1993 Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
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27 Mar 1994 Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed
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27 Mar 1994 Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova / Vadim Naumov (RUS)
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27 Mar 1994 23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews
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27 Mar 1994 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald
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27 Mar 1994 World Ice Dance Championship in Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (Russia)
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27 Mar 1994 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (Russia)
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27 Mar 1994 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (Japan)
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27 Mar 1994 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (Canada)
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27 Mar 1995 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump, " Jessica Lange and Tom Hanks win
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27 Mar 1995 67th Academy Awards: "Forest Gump", Tom Hanks & Jessica Lange win
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27 Mar 1996 "State Fair, " opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances
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27 Mar 1997 "Young Man From Atlanta, " opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances
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27 Mar 1997 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
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27 Mar 1997 Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray
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27 Mar 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.
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27 Mar 1998 Soul Train Awards
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27 Mar 1999 Kosovo War: Yugoslav SAM downed F-117A, the first and only kill of the stealth aircraft.
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27 Mar 2000 A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one and injures 71.
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27 Mar 2002 Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors and the injury of 19 others.
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27 Mar 2002 Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
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27 Mar 2004 HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
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27 Mar 2009 A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
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27 Mar 2009 The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
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27 Mar 2013 A 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near Taipei, Taiwan, injuring 97 people.
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27 Mar 2014 Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
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27 Mar 2015 Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
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27 Mar 2134 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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