March 27 - Events

Events

• 196 BC – Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
• 1306 – Robert The Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
• 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.
• 1613 – The 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, 2nd Marquess of Rockinghambecomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navyand authorizes the building of six frigates.
• 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
• 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under GeneralAndrew 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 Texas POW's at Goliad, Texas.
• 1836 – Kirtland Temple in Ohio is dedicated in an 8 hour long service led by Joseph Smith, Jr. andSidney Rigdon.
• 1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
• 1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
• 1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
• 1868 – The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
• 1871 – The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh atRaeburn Place.
• 1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigidTemperance by the Salvation Army.
• 1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
• 1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
• 1906 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• 1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
• 1918 – Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
• 1938 – The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
• 1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodlesscoup.
• 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 – Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
• 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 ofAnchorage.
• 1969 – Mariner 7 is launched.
• 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
• 1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
• 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in theCanary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
• 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting tocorner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
• 1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer 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.
• 1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafiaallegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
• 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.
• 1994 – The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
• 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for maleimpotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
• 1999 – An F-117 Nighthawk is shot down during the Kosovo War.
• 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
• 2002 – Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
• 2004 – HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef offCornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• 2009 – Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.