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What happened in history on this day: March 27?
On March 27 in ...
- 1794 - US Congress authorizes the President "to provide a naval armament" (US Navy).
- 1814 - Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-Indians.
- 1836 - First Mormon temple is dedicated (Kirtland, Ohio).
- 1841 - First US steam-powered fire engine tested, in New York City, New York.
- 1865 - Siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama: captured by Federals.
- 1866 - US President Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th Amendment.
- 1884 - First long-distance telephone call, Boston to New York, USA.
- 1917 - Leon Trotsky AKA Lev Davidovich Bronstein leaves the US by ship, along with almost 300 revolutionaries and Wall Street money, with purpose to overthrow the provisional government in Russia and stop the war with Germany.
- 1930 - First US radio broadcast from a ship at sea.
- 1933 - Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized.
- 1941 - Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years.
- 1942 - War Powers Act is signed into law as Public Law 507, providing for silver alloy 5-cent coins.
- 1943 - US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia.
- 1945 - General Dwight Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken.
- 1945 - Iwo Jima is occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 US killed.
- 1945 - US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden.
- 1953 - 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut, Ohio, USA.
- 1955 - 9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours and Pajama Game win.
- 1956 - US seizes American communist newspaper Daily Worker.
- 1957 - 29th Academy Awards: Around World in 80 Days, Yul Brynner, and Ingrid Bergman win.
- 1962 - Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school.
- 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.
- 1966 - Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe and Australia.
- 1969 - Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1969 - Launch of Mariner 7.
- 1973 - 45th Academy Awards: The Godfather, Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win. Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians.
- 1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
- 1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington D.C. Metro subway system opens.
- 1978 - Bob Fosse's Dancin' opens at Broadhurst Theater in New York City for 1,774 performances.
- 1979 - US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that police can't randomly stop cars.
- 1980 - Mount Saint Helens in Washington state becomes active after 123 years.
- 1985 - Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 1995 - 67th Academy Awards: Forest Gump, Tom Hanks and Jessica Lange win.
- 1997 - Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray.
- 1998 - The US Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male sexual impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
- 2020 - The NASA orbiting telescope Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer discovers comet NEOWISE over the northern hemisphere.
- 2023 - Near Nashville, Tennessee, Audrey Elizabeth Hale kills six people in Covenant School.
Births on March 27
- 1893 - Birth of William Harrigan in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Affair of Three Nations, Cabaret).
- 1899 - Birth of Gloria Swanson in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Killer Bees, Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) (dies 1983).
- 1907 - Birth of Mary Treen in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actress (Emily - Willy).
- 1914 - Birth of Budd Schulberg in New York City, New York, USA; novelist (On the Waterfront).
- 1914 - Birth of Richard Denning in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA; actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-O).
- 1914 - Birth of Snooky Lanson in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; singer (Your Hit Parade, Five Star Jubilee).
- 1924 - Birth of Sarah L Vaughan in Newark, New Jersey, USA; jazz scat singer ("Broken Hearted Melody") (dies 1990).
- 1930 - Birth of David Janssen [Meyer] in Naponee, Nebraska, USA; actor (Fugitive, Harry O).
- 1930 - Birth of Richard Hayman in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show).
- 1936 - Birth of Jerry Lacy in Sioux City, Iowa, USA; actor (Play it Again Sam, Reverend Trask - Dark Shadows).
- 1940 - Birth of Austin Pendleton in Warren, Ohio, USA; actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again).
- 1947 - Birth of Tom Sullivan in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear).
- 1952 - Birth of Chick Vennera in Herkimer, New York, USA; actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War).
- 1953 - Birth of Pamela Roylance in Seattle, Washington, USA; actress (Sarah - Little House on the Prairie).
- 1958 - Birth of Michael O'Leary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; actor (Guiding Light, Fatal Games).
- 1963 - Birth of Todd Graves in Laurel, Mississippi, USA; skeet (Olympics-1992, 1996).
- 1966 - Birth of Kate Donahoo in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; American judoka (Olympics-1992).
- 1967 - Birth of Jaime Navarro in Bayamon Puerto Rico; pitcher (Chicago Cubs).
- 1967 - Birth of Talisa Soto [Miriam] in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (License to Kill).
- 1970 - Birth of Mariah Carey in New York City, New York, USA; singer ("Vision of Love", "Love Takes Time", "Hero").
- 1983 - Birth of Shawntinice Polk; American basketball player (dies 2005).
- 1986 - Birth of Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham; American professional wrestling valet.
- 1986 - Birth of Melissa Stern aka "Baby M" aka Sara Whitehead, surrogate baby, awarded to her dad William Stern.
Deaths on March 27
- 1983 - Death of Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer, George Norlin Silver Medal from the University of Colorado (born 1898).
- 1986 - Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at age 88.
- 1987 - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at age 90.
- 1992 - James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at age 84.
- 1995 - Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at age 67.
- 2002 - Death of Milton "Mr. Television" Berle of colon cancer at age 92; American comedian and actor (Texaco Star Theater, Emmy Award 1948, Television Hall of Fame 1984).
- 2009 - Death of Jack Dreyfus, American investment innovator, the "Lion on Wall Street" at age 95 in New York.
- 2014 - Death of James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician (born 1929).
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