WillDekkard
03-27-2010, 04:14 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- March 27th
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* 196 BC Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
* 1306 Robert The Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
* 1309 Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
* 1329 Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
* 1613 The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
* 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.
* 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: Goliad massacre Antonio Lσpez de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
* 1836 Kirtland Temple in Ohio is dedicated in an 8 hour long service led by Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.
* 1846 Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
* 1851 First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
* 1854 Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
* 1868 The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
* 1871 The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
* 1881 Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
* 1886 Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
* 1890 A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
* 1906 The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba
* 1910 A fire during a barn-dance in Φkφritσfόlpφs, Hungary, kills 312.
* 1918 Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
* 1938 The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
* 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.
* 1948 The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
* 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
* 1963 Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
* 1964 The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
* 1969 Mariner 7 is launched.
* 1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
* 1976 The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
* 1977 Tenerife 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). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
* 1980 The Norwegian oil platform Alexander 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, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
* 1986 A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
* 1990 The United States begins broadcasting TV Martν to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
* 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.
* 1994 One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
* 1994 The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
* 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 An F-117 Nighthawk is shot down during the Kosovo War.
* 2000 A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
* 2002 Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
* 2004 HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
* 2009 Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails killing at least 99 people.
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- March 27th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 196 BC Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
* 1306 Robert The Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
* 1309 Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
* 1329 Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
* 1613 The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
* 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.
* 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: Goliad massacre Antonio Lσpez de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
* 1836 Kirtland Temple in Ohio is dedicated in an 8 hour long service led by Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.
* 1846 Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
* 1851 First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
* 1854 Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
* 1868 The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
* 1871 The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
* 1881 Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
* 1886 Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
* 1890 A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
* 1906 The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba
* 1910 A fire during a barn-dance in Φkφritσfόlpφs, Hungary, kills 312.
* 1918 Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
* 1938 The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
* 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.
* 1948 The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
* 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
* 1963 Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
* 1964 The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
* 1969 Mariner 7 is launched.
* 1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
* 1976 The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
* 1977 Tenerife 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). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
* 1980 The Norwegian oil platform Alexander 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, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
* 1986 A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
* 1990 The United States begins broadcasting TV Martν to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
* 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.
* 1994 One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
* 1994 The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
* 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 An F-117 Nighthawk is shot down during the Kosovo War.
* 2000 A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
* 2002 Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
* 2004 HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
* 2009 Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails killing at least 99 people.
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