What happened on March 27? There are more than 305 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About March 27
March 27 is the 87th day of the year 2024. There are 279 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 13th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Gays Creek, Kentucky 41745 sunrise occured at 07:24 AM and sunset occured at 07:53 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aries. The modern birthstone for this month is Aquamarine while the mystical birthstone is Jade.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 308 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For March 27
- 196 BCPtolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
- 1306Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
- 1309Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
- 1329Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
- 1613The first English child born in Canada at Cuper’s Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
- 1625Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
- 1782Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1794Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
- 1794The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
- 1809Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
- 1814War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
- 1836Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
- 1846Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
- 1851First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
- 1854Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
- 1871The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
- 1881Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
- 1884A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
- 1886Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
- 1890A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
- 1910A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
- 1915Typhoid 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.
- 1918Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
- 1938Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
- 1941World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
- 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.
- 1945World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan’s ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war to the Axis Powers.
- 1948The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
- 1958Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
- 1963Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom’s rail network.
- 1964The 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.
- 1975Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
- 1976The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
- 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). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
- 1980Silver 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.
- 1980The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
- 1981The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
- 1986A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
- 1990The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
- 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 the People’s Republic of China.
- 1994One 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.
- 1994The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
- 1998The 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.
- 2000A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
- 2002Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
- 2004HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
- 2009A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
- 2009Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
Who Were Born On March 27?
- 972King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
- 1416Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d. 1480)
- 1627Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
- 1676Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian nationalist (d. 1735)
- 1696Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
- 1702Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (d. 1762)
- 1712Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
- 1714Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
- 1730Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar (d. 1786)
- 1746Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
- 1765Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
- 1784Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, Hungarian philologist (d. 1842)
- 1785King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
- 1797Alfred de Vigny, French author (d. 1863)
- 1809Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)
- 1810William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
- 1813Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888)
- 1817Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
- 1845Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
- 1847Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
- 1851Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)
- 1857Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936)
- 1859George Giffen, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
- 1860Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
- 1863Sir Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d. 1933)
- 1868Patty Smith Hill, American educator (d. 1946)
- 1869James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)
- 1871Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
- 1871Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (d. 1948)
- 1879Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
- 1883Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
- 1886Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
- 1886Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
- 1888Bouke Benenga, Dutch freestyle swimmer and water polo player (d. 1968)
- 1892Dorrit Weixler, German actress (d. 1916)
- 1892Ferde Grofé, American composer (d. 1972)
- 1893Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)
- 1895Betty Schade, German-born American film actress (d. 1982)
- 1897Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (d. 1958)
- 1898Alma Tell, American stage and film actress (d. 1937)
- 1899Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
- 1901Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
- 1901Eisaku Sato, Japanese statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
- 1901Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
- 1901Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
- 1902Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
- 1905Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
- 1906Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
- 1909Ben Webster, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1973)
- 1909Golo Mann, German historian (d. 1994)
- 1912James Callaghan, British politician (d. 2005)
- 1913Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945)
- 1914Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (d. 2009)
- 1914Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1915Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (d. 2006)
- 1917Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002)
- 1920Robin Jacques, British illustrator (d. 1995)
- 1921Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (d. 2010)
- 1921Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
- 1922Dick King-Smith English author (d. 2011)
- 1922Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
- 1923Endo Shusaku, Japanese author (d. 1996)
- 1923Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet
- 1924Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
- 1926Frank O'Hara, American Poet (d.1966)
- 1927Anthony Lewis, American journalist and writer
- 1927Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
- 1930Bob den Uyl, Dutch writer (d. 1992)
- 1931David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
- 1935Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
- 1935Julian Glover, British actor
- 1935Stanley Rother, American Catholic priest and missionary (d. 1981)
- 1937Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
- 1939Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
- 1940Austin Pendleton, American actor
- 1940Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
- 1941Ivan Gašparovič, Slovakian politician
- 1942John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1942Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
- 1942Michael York, English actor
- 1944Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
- 1946Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
- 1947Aad de Mos, Dutch football coach
- 1947Brian Jones, British balloonist
- 1947Walt Mossberg, American journalist
- 1950Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
- 1950Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
- 1950Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
- 1952Dana Stabenow, American author
- 1952Jan Albers, Dutch field hockey player
- 1952Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
- 1952Richard Séguin, Quebec singer and songwriter
- 1953Herman Ponsteen, Dutch track cyclist
- 1955Lefteris Pantazis, Greek singer
- 1956Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong activist
- 1956Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross-country skier
- 1957Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997)
- 1957Kostas Vasilakakis, Greek footballer and football manager
- 1957Nick Hawkins, British politician
- 1959Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
- 1960Hans Pflügler, German footballer
- 1960Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
- 1961Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
- 1961Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
- 1962Jann Arden, Canadian musician
- 1962John O'Farrell, British author and satirist
- 1962Rob Hollink, Dutch professional poker player
- 1963Charly Alberti, Argentinian musician
- 1963Dave Koz, American saxophonist
- 1963Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
- 1963Randall Cunningham, American football player
- 1963Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
- 1964Glenn Carter, English actor and singer-songwriter
- 1966Haruto Umezawa, Japanese manga artist
- 1966Paula Trickey, American actress
- 1967David Bavaro, American football player
- 1967Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1967Talisa Soto, American actress
- 1968Sandra Hess, Swiss-born actress and model
- 1969Kevin Corrigan, American actor
- 1969Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
- 1969Victoria O'Keefe, British actress (d. 1990)
- 1970Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler)
- 1970Brent Fitz, Canadian musician (Theory of a Deadman)
- 1970Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
- 1970Kathalijne Buitenweg, Dutch politician
- 1970Mariah Carey, American pop singer
- 1970Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
- 1970Uwe Rosenberg, German board game designer (Agricola, Bohnanza)
- 1971David Coulthard, Scottish Formula One driver
- 1971Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
- 1972Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler
- 1972Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
- 1974Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
- 1974George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer
- 1974Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)
- 1975Chakrit Yamnam, Thai film and television actor
- 1975Fergie, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)
- 1975Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
- 1976Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
- 1976Danny Fortson, American basketball player
- 1976Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
- 1977Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
- 1977Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
- 1979Michael Cuddyer, American baseball player
- 1980Cesare Cremonini, Italian singer and songwriter
- 1981Carey Davis, American pro football player
- 1981Lin Jun Jie, Chinese singer
- 1981Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
- 1982Iman Crosson, American actor, impressionist, and dancer
- 1982Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty pageant contestant
- 1984Ben Franks, New Zealander rugby player
- 1984Laura Critchley, British singer/song writer
- 1984Michaël Cordier, Belgian footballer
- 1985Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel
- 1985Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
- 1985Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
- 1986Manuel Neuer, German professional footballer
- 1986Melissa Stern (Baby M), American custody case figure
- 1986SoCal Val, American professional wrestling valet
- 1987Buster Posey, American baseball player
- 1987Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987Cláudio, Brazilian footballer
- 1987Victor Vito, New Zealand rugby player
- 1988Brenda Song, American actress
- 1988Jessie J, British singer
- 1990Alessio Bugno, Italian footballer
- 1990Nicolas N'Koulou, Cameroonian footballer
- 1990Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer
- 1992Pedro Obiang, Spanish-born Equatoguinean footballer
- 1995Taylor Atelian, American actress
Who Died On March 27?
- 710Rupert of Salzburg
- 973Herman, Duke of Saxony
- 1191Pope Clement III (b. 1130)
- 1350King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
- 1378Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
- 1462Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
- 1482Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I (b. 1457)
- 1555William Hunter, Protestant martyr
- 1572Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. c. 1523)
- 1625King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
- 1635Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
- 1676Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat (b. 1597)
- 1679Abraham Minjon, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
- 1697Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
- 1757Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)
- 1770Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (b. 1696)
- 1809Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
- 1827François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
- 1836James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
- 1843Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
- 1849Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)
- 1850Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b. 1797)
- 1864Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
- 1865Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
- 1873Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
- 1875Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
- 1878Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811)
- 1879Prince Waldemar of Prussia, son of Emperor Frederick III (b. 1868)
- 1889John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
- 1897Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
- 1898Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (b. 1817)
- 1910Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835)
- 1918Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
- 1923Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
- 1924Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841)
- 1926Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
- 1927Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
- 1931Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)
- 1934Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
- 1940Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
- 1965Dirk Lotsy, Dutch footballer (b. 1882)
- 1967Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
- 1967Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
- 1968Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
- 1972M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)
- 1972Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
- 1977A. P. Hamann, American politician (b. 1909)
- 1977Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
- 1977Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch Aviator (b. 1927)
- 1978Nat Bailey, Canadian restaurateur (b. 1902)
- 1981Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
- 1981Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and news presenter (b. 1916)
- 1982Betty Schade, German-born American actress (b. 1895)
- 1988Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
- 1989Jack Starrett, American actor and film director (b. 1936)
- 1989May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
- 1991Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
- 1991Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)
- 1992Easley Blackwood, American bridge player (b. 1903)
- 1993Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1931)
- 1993Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900)
- 1996Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (b. 1944)
- 1998David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
- 1998Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
- 2000Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942)
- 2002Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
- 2002Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
- 2002Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
- 2003Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
- 2003Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
- 2003Ricardo Munguía, Salvadoran aid worker (b. 1960)
- 2004Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)
- 2005Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian prominent actor (b. 1949)
- 2005Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
- 2005Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
- 2005Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
- 2006Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
- 2006Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
- 2006Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
- 2006Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
- 2006Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
- 2007Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
- 2008George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
- 2008Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport’s FIA (b. 1921)
- 2009Jack Dreyfus, American businessman (b. 1913)
- 2010Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster (b. 1921)
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