March 27 is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of the year.
News on this day:
1306 – Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
1309 – Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1871 – The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
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.
1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
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.
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.
2011- I took the dog for a 3.25 mile walk.
Born on this date:
1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
1970 – Mariah Carey, American pop singer
1975 – Fergie, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)
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