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This day in history: 27 March

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471 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 27 March.
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2023: Forty people are killed in a fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Holidays and observances

Armed Forces Day (Myanmar)

Christian feast day: Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century.

Christian feast day: Amador of Portugal

Christian feast day: Augusta of Treviso

Christian feast day: Charles Henry Brent (Episcopal Church (USA))

Christian feast day: Easter (Palmarian Church)

Christian feast day: Gelasius, Archbishop of Armagh

Christian feast day: John of Egypt

Christian feast day: March 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Panacea De' Muzzi

Christian feast day: Philetus

Christian feast day: Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730.

Events

2023Forty people are killed in a fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

2023Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

2020North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.

2016A 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.

2015Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.

2014Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.

2009The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.

2004HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

2002Nanterre 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.

2002Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.

2000A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.

1999Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.

1998The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.

1993Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.

1993Jiang Zemin is appointed President of China.

1990The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí.

1986A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.

1981The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.

1980The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

1977Tenerife 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 deadliest aviation acciden

1976The first section of the Washington Metro opens to the public.

1975Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

1964The 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.

1958Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.

1945World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.

1943World 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.

1942The Holocaust: Nazi Germany and Vichy France begin the deportation of 65,000 Jews from Drancy internment camp to German extermination camps.

1941World War II: Yugoslav Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.

1938Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.

1933Japanese invasion of Manchuria: Japan leaves the League of Nations after it approves the Lytton Report that ruled in favour of China.

1918The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.

1915Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.

1912First Lady Helen Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the origin of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

1901Philippine–American War: Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by the Americans.

1899Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.

1886Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.

1884A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States 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 burn down the courthouse.

1871The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

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

1836Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican Army massacres 342 Texian Army POWs at Goliad, Texas.

Born on this day

2002Daria Snigur, Ukrainian tennis player

2001Natanael Cano, Mexican rapper and singer

2000Halle Bailey, American singer-songwriter and actress

2000Sophie Nélisse, Canadian actress

1999Alex O'Connor, English media personality

1999Jesser, American YouTuber

1998Giannis Bouzoukis, Greek footballer

1997Lisa, Thai rapper and dancer

1995Bill Tuiloma, New Zealand footballer

1993Brandon Nimmo, American baseball player

1992Marc Muniesa, Spanish footballer

1991London on da Track, American record producer

1990Ben Hunt, Australian rugby league player

1990Brodha V, Indian rapper and music producer

1990Erdin Demir, Swedish-Turkish footballer

1990Kimbra, New Zealand musician

1990Luca Zuffi, Swiss footballer

1990Nicolas Nkoulou, Cameroonian footballer

1989Camilla Lees, New Zealand netball player

1989Matt Harvey, American baseball player

1988Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer

1988Brenda Song, American actress

1988Holliday Grainger, English actress

1988Jessie J, English singer-songwriter

1988Mauro Goicoechea, Uruguayan footballer

1987Buster Posey, American baseball player

1987Jefferson Bernárdez, Honduran footballer

1987Polina Gagarina, Russian singer-songwriter

1987Samuel Francis, Nigerian-Qatari sprinter

1986Manuel Neuer, German footballer

1985Danny Vukovic, Australian footballer

1985Dustin Byfuglien, American ice hockey player

1984Adam Ashley-Cooper, Australian rugby player

1984Ben Franks, Australian-born New Zealand rugby player

1984Brett Holman, Australian footballer

1983Román Martínez, Argentinian footballer

1983Vasily Koshechkin, Russian ice hockey player

1983Yuliya Golubchikova, Russian pole vaulter

1982Shawn Beveney, Guyanese footballer

1981Akhil Kumar, Indian boxer

Died on this day

2026Henry Lee, Chinese-American forensic scientist (born 1938)

2025Christina McKelvie, Scottish politician (born 1968)

2024Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American author, psychologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934)

2024Joe Lieberman, American politician and lawyer (born 1942)

2018Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (born 1936)

2016Mother Angelica, American Roman Catholic religious leader and media personality (born 1923)

2015Johnny Helms, American trumpet player, bandleader, and educator (born 1935)

2015T. Sailo, Indian soldier and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram (born 1922)

2014James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense and first United States Secretary of Energy (born 1929)

2014Richard N. Frye, American scholar and academic (born 1920)

2013Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (born 1917)

2013Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (born 1923)

2013Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American scientist and engineer (born 1924)

2012Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist and feminist (born 1929)

2011Clement Arrindell, Nevisian judge and politician, 1st Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (born 1931)

2011Farley Granger, American actor (born 1925)

2010Dick Giordano, American illustrator (born 1932)

2009Irving R. Levine, American journalist and author (born 1922)

2008Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (born 1921)

2007Nancy Adams, New Zealand botanist and illustrator (born 1926)

2007Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1929)

2006Dan Curtis, American director and producer (born 1928)

2006Neil Williams, English cricketer (born 1962)

2006Rudolf Vrba, Czech Holocaust survivor and educator (born 1924)

2006Stanisław Lem, Ukrainian-Polish author (born 1921)

2005Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon (born 1913)

2004Robert Merle, French author (born 1909)

2003Edwin Carr, New Zealand composer and educator (born 1926)

2002Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1906)

2002Dudley Moore, English actor (born 1935)

Quote of the day

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

Marcus Aurelius

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