March 27: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). There are 279 days remaining.

Events

• 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 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.
• 1871 - First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• 1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
• 1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
• 1923 - FART construction completed.
• 1938 - Battle of Tai er zhuang
• 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.
• 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.
• 1986 - Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer, Angela Taylor and injuring 21 people.
• 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.
• 2000 - Foundation of Beasts From Middle East by Fady Aodesho and Shahin Bahrami
• 2002 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.
• 2003 - An explosion in the Nitrochimie dynamite factory in Billy-Berclau, France kills 4 people. Somebody lit a match.
• 2004 - HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

• 972 - King Robert I of France (d. 1031)
• 1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d. 1480)
• 1627 - Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1882 - Ferde Grofé, American composer (d. 1972)
• 1883 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
• 1886 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
• 1893 - Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)
• 1899 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
• 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)
• 1905 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
• 1906 - Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
• 1909 - Golo Mann, German historian (d. 1994)
• 1912 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
• 1914 - Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1914 - Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist
• 1915 - Junior Lockwood, American musician
• 1917 - Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002)
• 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
• 1931 - David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
• 1935 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
• 1935 - Julian Glover, British actor
• 1939 - Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
• 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
• 1947 - Brian Jones, British balloonist
• 1950 - Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
• 1952 - Maria Schneider, French actress
• 1956 - Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong political activist
• 1957 - Nick Hawkins, British politician
• 1961 - Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
• 1962 - Jann Arden, Canadian musician
• 1963 - Quentin Tarantino, American actor, director, writer, and producer
• 1963 - Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
• 1966 - Paula Trickey, American actress
• 1967 - Talisa Soto, American actress
• 1968 - Sadie Frost, British actress
• 1968 - Sandra Hess, Swiss-born actress and model
• 1969 - Keith Flint, Member of British group The Prodigy
• 1970 - Mariah Carey, American singer
• 1970 - Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
• 1971 - David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver
• 1972 - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch football striker
• 1975 - Fergie, American musician (Black Eyed Peas)
• 1986 - "Baby M," the subject of an infamous custody battle
• 1995 - Taylor Atelian, American actress

• 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 and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1457)
• 1555 - William Hunter, protestant martyr
• 1615 - Margaret of Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
• 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, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, 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, 2nd Earl of Gosford (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)
• 1910 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist and engineer (b. 1835)
• 1918 - Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
• 1923 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
• 1924 - Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841)
• 1927 - Joe Start, 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, cosmonaut (b. 1934)
• 1969 - B. Traven, German writer
• 1972 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
• 1972 - M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)
• 1977 - A. P. Hamann, American politician
• 1977 - Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
• 1981 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
• 1989 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)
• 1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)
• 1991 - Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 - Easley Blackwood, American bridge player (b. 1903)
• 1993 - Paul Laszlo, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900)
• 1998 - David McClelland, psychological theorist (b. 1917)
• 1998 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
• 2000 - Ian Dury, English rock musician (b. 1942)
• 2002 - Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
• 2002 - Dudley Moore, British actor, musician, and composer (b. 1935)
• 2002 - Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
• 2003 - Ricardo Munguia, aid worker in Afghanistan
• 2003 - Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
• 2005 - Bob Casey, baseball announcer (b. 1925)

• 2005, 2016: Easter
• Angolan Victory Day
• Feast day of Rupert of Salzburg in the Roman Catholic Church

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