Events of the day 27 March

Events of day 27 March

1309:

Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.

1329:

Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.

1513:

Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.

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 Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1794:

The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

1794:

Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.

1809:

Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real.

1814:

War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

1836:

Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army massacres 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.

1866:

President Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.

1871:

The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

1884:

A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.

1886:

Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.

1899:

Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.

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.

1938:

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.

1941:

World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.

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. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.

1958:

Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union

1964:

The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.

1975:

Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

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 dealiest aviation accident in history.

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 to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.

1981:

The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.

1986:

A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.

1990:

The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.

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 mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.

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: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.

2000:

A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.

2002:

Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.

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; 19 other people are injured.

2004:

{{HMS|Scylla|F71|6}}, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

2009:

The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.

2014:

Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.

2015:

Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.

2016:

A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.


Celebrations 27 March

1958:

Was born Ioan Es. Pop.

1947:

Was born Alexandru Papilian.

Carlo Dossi1849:

Was born Carlo Dossi.

Alfred de Vigny1797:

Was born Alfred de Vigny.

Frank O'Hara1926:

Was born Frank O'Hara.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe1886:

Was born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Francis Ponge1899:

Was born Francis Ponge.

1968:

Was born Cristian Badilita.

1938:

Was born Mircea Braga.

1943:

Was born Aurel Ciocanu.

1959:

Was born Liviu Malita.

1947:

Was born Cornel Udrea.

1970:

Was born Mariah Carey.

1907:

Was born Theodore M. Burton.

Wilhelm Rontgen1845:

Was born Wilhelm Rontgen.


Commemorations 27 March

Stanis³aw Lem2006:

Has died Stanis³aw Lem.

Henry B. Adams1918:

Has died Henry B. Adams.

George Pruteanu2008:

Has died George Pruteanu.

James Dewar1923:

Has died James Dewar.

Milton Berle2002:

Has died Milton Berle.