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
1937:
Was born Nicolae Dumitrescu-Sinesti.
1958:
Was born Ioan Es. Pop.
1947:
Was born Alexandru Papilian.
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:
