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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 27
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Harold Nicholas; American actor (Tap, Five Heartbeats, Stormy Weather).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Sarah L Vaughan in Newark, New Jersey, USA; jazz scat singer ("Broken Hearted Melody") (dies 1990).
- 100th: 1924 - Canada recognizes USSR.
- 100th: 1924 - New French government of Raymond Poincaré begins.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Arthur Mitchell; choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of David Hancock; secretary (British Department of Education and Science).
- 80th: 1944 - 1,000 Jews leave Drancy, France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
- 80th: 1944 - 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas, Lithuania.
- 80th: 1944 - 40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia ghetto are shot by the Gestapo.
- 80th: 1944 - Children's Aktion: Germans collect all the Jewish children of Lovno.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Clark Datchler; vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz - "Shattered Dreams").
- 60th: 1964 - Earthquake strikes Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 9.2 on Richter scale, 131 die from earthquake and resulting tsunami; this is the most violent earthquake in US history.
- 60th: 1964 - Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars.
- 60th: 1964 - United Nations' troops arrive on Cyprus.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Rosanna Gimenez; Miss Paraguay-Universe (1997).
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Emily Ann Lloyd; actress (Sarah Kramer - Something So Right).
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of J P Steur; actor (Grace Under Fire).
- 40th: 1984 - Near the north coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs.
- 30th: 1994 - 23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews.
- 30th: 1994 - The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States. One tornado hits a United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama, killing 22.
- 30th: 1994 - Dennis Hartas, flier, dies at age 69.
- 30th: 1994 - World Ice Dance Championship in Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk and Platov (Russia).
- 30th: 1994 - World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (Russia).
- 30th: 1994 - World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (Japan).
- 30th: 1994 - World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (Canada).
- 30th: 1994 - In Manching, Germany, the twin-engine Eurofighter first flies.
- 25th: 1999 - Kosovo War: A U.S. F-117 Nighthawk is shot down by Serbian forces.
- 20th: 2004 - HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
- 15th: 2009 - A dam bursts near Jakarta, Indonesia, killing at least 58 people, engulfing hundreds of homes.
- 15th: 2009 - The International Olympic Committee decides to eliminate international torch relays ahead of future Olympic Games, due to protests held during previous Olympic torch relays.
- 15th: 2009 - A bomb explodes at a mosque near Jamrud in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 50 people.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Jack Dreyfus, American investment innovator, the "Lion on Wall Street" at age 95 in New York.
- 10th: 2014 - The United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 68/262, recognizing Crimea within Ukraine's international borders and rejecting the validity of the 2014 Crimean referendum.
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