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27 Mar 1309
Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
27 Mar 1329
Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
27 Mar 1613
The first English child born in Canada at Cupers Cove Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy
27 Mar 1642
The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.
27 Mar 1708
Pretender to the English throne James III flees to Dunkirk
27 Mar 1709
Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)
27 Mar 1713
Spain loses Menorca and Gibraltar to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht
27 Mar 1790
The modern shoelace with an aglet patented in England by Harvey Kennedy
27 Mar 1794
The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
27 Mar 1808
Joseph Haydns oratorio Die Schopfung premieres in Vienna
27 Mar 1848
John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
27 Mar 1849
Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
27 Mar 1860
M L Byrn patents covered gimlet screw with a T handle (corkscrew)
27 Mar 1865
Siege of Spanish Fort AL-captured by Federals
27 Mar 1868
The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego New York.
27 Mar 1871
1st international rugby union match - Scotland 1 England 0 at Raeburn Place Edinburgh
27 Mar 1873
35th Grand National J. M. Richardson wins aboard 201 shot Disturbance by 6 lengths from Rhyshworth
27 Mar 1881
Rioting takes place in Basingstoke Hampshire in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
27 Mar 1885
47th Grand National Jockey Ted Wilson wins his second consecutive GN aboard 103 favourite Roquefort
27 Mar 1890
A tornado strikes Louisville Kentucky killing 76 and injuring 200.
27 Mar 1896
58th Grand National Former owner David Campbell wins aboard 401 outsider The Soarer
27 Mar 1900
Recognising that the war in South Africa is going to take a major commitment Parliament passes the War Loan Act calling for 35 million to support the fight against the Boers.
27 Mar 1903
65th Grand National Percy Woodland aboard 132 chance Drumcree wins by 3 lengths from Detail
27 Mar 1906
Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg Manitoba
27 Mar 1908
70th Grand National Henry Bletsoe wins aboard American 661 outsider Rubio
27 Mar 1910
Fire during a barn-dance in kritflps Hungary killed 312
27 Mar 1912
1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington D.C.
27 Mar 1914
1st successful non-direct blood transfusion is performed by Dr. Albert Hustin in Brussels
27 Mar 1914
76th Grand National Bill Smith aboard Sunloch wins by 8 lengths from Trianon III
27 Mar 1920
Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
27 Mar 1925
84th Grand National Major John Wilson wins aboard 1009 shot Double Chance first year a tape known then as a gate used at the start line
27 Mar 1928
KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
27 Mar 1931
John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
27 Mar 1931
90th Grand National 9 year old Grakle at odds of 1006 and ridden by jockey Bob Lyall wins by 1.5 lengths from 1929 winner Gregalach
27 Mar 1933
Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
27 Mar 1936
WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
27 Mar 1936
95th Grand National Fulke Walwyn scores back-to-back GN victories aboard Reynoldstown at 101
27 Mar 1939
1st NCAA Mens Basketball Championship U of Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33
27 Mar 1941
Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
27 Mar 1941
Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
27 Mar 1942
-28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
27 Mar 1942
Japan forces Java to use Tokyo time 1 hour forward
27 Mar 1943
Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau
27 Mar 1944
1000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz concentration camp
27 Mar 1944
40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the Gestapo
27 Mar 1944
Childrens Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
27 Mar 1945
7th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44
27 Mar 1945
World War II Operation Starvation the aerial mining of Japans ports and waterways begins.
27 Mar 1948
The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened
27 Mar 1950
Netherlands recognizes Peoples Republic of China
27 Mar 1950
WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville Kentucky (CBS) begins broadcasting
27 Mar 1951
13th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58
27 Mar 1952
Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
27 Mar 1952
Singin in the Rain musical comedy directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds premieres at Radio City Music Hall in NYC
27 Mar 1955
9th Tony Awards Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win
27 Mar 1955
WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence RI (ABC) begins broadcasting
27 Mar 1958
Havana Hilton opens in Cuba later HQ for Fidel Castro
27 Mar 1961
Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
27 Mar 1961
Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
27 Mar 1962
Ann Jellicoes play Knack premieres in London
27 Mar 1962
Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
27 Mar 1963
Beeching axe Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdoms rail network.
27 Mar 1964
1st true Pirate Radio station Radio Caroline (England)
27 Mar 1964
The Great Alaska Earthquake (9.2 magnitude) and resulting tsunami kill 139 people in the largest US earthquake and second largest ever recorded
27 Mar 1964
Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
27 Mar 1965
119th Grand National Tommy Smith becomes first American jockey to win GN aboard US trained and owned horse Jay Trump at 1006
27 Mar 1968
Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco
27 Mar 1969
Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
27 Mar 1969
Launch of Mariner 7 flies 2190-mi above southern Mars
27 Mar 1971
33rd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLAs 5th consecutive title
27 Mar 1971
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) holds its first Annual Conference in the Ulster Hall in Belfast
27 Mar 1971
Wales clinches its 17th Five Nations Rugby Championship 6th Grand Slam and 12th Triple Crown with a 9-5 win over France at Stade Colombes Paris
27 Mar 1972
Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching University of Kentucky
27 Mar 1972
Ulster Vanguard organise industrial strike against the imposition of direct rule on Northern Ireland by Westminster
27 Mar 1973
Dennis Amiss out for 99 v Pakistan 3rd 99 in Test Cricket
27 Mar 1973
Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and LSD possession
27 Mar 1978
40th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Kentucky beats Duke 94-88
27 Mar 1978
Bob Fosses Dancin opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1774 performances
27 Mar 1978
Rutles All You Need is Cash is shown on British TV
27 Mar 1979
US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops cant randomly stop cars
27 Mar 1980
Happy New Year opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
27 Mar 1980
Reggae opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances
27 Mar 1980
Elevator in Vaal Reefs gold mine South Africa plunges more than 1900m killing all 23 miners aboard
27 Mar 1980
Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea killing 123 of its crew of 212
27 Mar 1982
Best Little Whorehouse... closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 performances
27 Mar 1982
Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match v Sri Lanka at Lahore
27 Mar 1982
Randy Holt sets Wash Cap record of 34 penalty minutes
27 Mar 1984
Beginning of tanker war over the next 9 months 44 ships including Iranian Iraqi Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti tankers are attacked by Iraqi or Iranian warplanes or damaged by mines
27 Mar 1987
President Habres troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad
27 Mar 1988
Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
27 Mar 1988
Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (URS)
27 Mar 1988
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
27 Mar 1988
Mens Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA)
27 Mar 1988
Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament
27 Mar 1988
Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza Macho Man Savage pins Ted Dibiase
27 Mar 1988
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Local resident Mark McCumber wins with record total 273 (15) 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Mike Reid
27 Mar 1989
1st African American soap opera Generations premieres on NBC-TV
27 Mar 1989
Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Crickets Ranji Trophy
27 Mar 1990
Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India 21 die
27 Mar 1990
NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
27 Mar 1990
The United States begins broadcasting TV Mart to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
27 Mar 1991
NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992
27 Mar 1991
New Kid Donnie Wahlberg arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
27 Mar 1994
Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado 19 killed
27 Mar 1994
Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS)
27 Mar 1994
Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by ShishkovaVadim Naumov (RUS)
27 Mar 1994
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (JPN)
27 Mar 1994
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
27 Mar 1994
The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching Germany
27 Mar 1994
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Australian Greg Norman sets scoring record of 264 (24) to finish 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Fuzzy Zoeller
27 Mar 1994
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Donna Andrews wins her only major title by 1 over British runner-up Laura Davies Andrews birdies final hole while Davies makes bogey.
27 Mar 1996
State Fair opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances
27 Mar 1997
Young Man From Atlanta opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances
27 Mar 1997
Martin Luther Kings son meets James Earl Ray his fathers killer
27 Mar 1998
Chicago Bulls - Atlanta Hawks matchup at Georgia Dome in Atlanta draws a crowd of 62046 largest in any game in NBA history Bulls win 89-74
27 Mar 2000
Phillips explosion kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena Texas.
27 Mar 2000
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass 1983 champion Hal Sutton leads wire-to-wire to win by a stroke ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods
27 Mar 2002
Passover Massacre A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya Israel.
27 Mar 2004
HMS Scylla a decommissioned Leander class frigate is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall the first of its kind in Europe.
27 Mar 2004
France beats England 24-21 at Stade de France Saint Denis to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship England earns the Triple Crown
27 Mar 2005
Kraft Nabisco Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Annika Srenstam of Sweden wins event for the 3rd time 8 strokes ahead of American Rosie Jones
27 Mar 2006
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
27 Mar 2009
Situ Gintung an artificial lake in Indonesia fails killing at least 99 people.
27 Mar 1939
1st NCAA Mens Basketball Championship U of Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33 Ohio State forward Jimmy Hull is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
27 Mar 1945
7th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44 Cowboys center Bob Kurland is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
27 Mar 1951
13th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58 Wildcats 3rd title 16-team field is introduced
27 Mar 1971
33rd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLAs 5th consecutive title Villanova later disqualified ineligible player Howard Porter
27 Mar 1978
40th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Kentucky beats Duke 94-88 Wildcats 5th title forward Jack Givens scores 41 points
27 Mar 1988
WrestleMania IV Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall NJ Randy Macho Man Savage beats Ted DiBiase for WWF Heavyweight title
27 Mar 1994
World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko of Canada
27 Mar 1599
English nobleman Robert Devereux becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
27 Mar 1937
Feijenoord Stadion home ground of Dutch football club Feyenoord Rotterdam and nicknamed De Kuip opens after 2 years in construction
27 Mar 1955
WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence Rhode Island (ABC) begins broadcasting
27 Mar 1972
Wyoming officially names Curt Gowdy State Park in honor of the nationally recognized broadcaster
27 Mar 1978
The Rutles mockumentary All You Need is Cash is shown on British TV
27 Mar 1996
Rodgers & Hammersteins musical State Fair opens at Music Box Theater New York City runs for 118 performances
27 Mar 1003
Peace deal signed between Henry II Holy Roman Emperor and the pagan Wends (Slavs)
27 Mar 1351
Battle of the Thirty 30 English and 30 Breton knights and squires square off using swords maces lances and daggers - considered one of the most chivalrous battles in history
27 Mar 1871
First international rugby union match - Scotland beats England 1-0 at Raeburn Place Edinburgh
27 Mar 1881
Rioting takes place in Basingstoke Hampshire in England to protest against the Salvation Armys daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance
27 Mar 1962
Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orleans Catholic schools
27 Mar 1996
Stage adaptation of Rodgers & Hammersteins musical State Fair opens at Music Box Theater New York City runs for 118 performances
27 Mar 1955
9th Tony Awards The Desperate Hours (play) & The Pajama Game (musical) win
27 Mar 1971
David Heneker and John Taylors musical Charlie Girl close at the Adelphi Theatre London after 2202 performances
27 Mar 1985
Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan acquiesces to put interviewer Richard Belzer in a hold resulting in Belzer passing out hitting his head on the floor and requiring 9 stitches Belzer sues Hogan for 5 million in damages for personal injury they settle out of court and Belzer buys a home in France
27 Mar 1910
Fire during a barn-dance in kritflps Hungary kills 312
27 Mar 1912
US First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Chinda wife of the Japanese Ambassador plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the bank of the Tidal Basin Washington D.C. [1]
27 Mar 1914
First successful non-direct blood transfusion is performed by Dr. Albert Hustin in Brussels
27 Mar 1943
WWII Dutch resistance fighters burn and bomb the Amsterdam civil registry office in effort to destroy records and prevent the Nazis from identifying Jews and others marked for persecution about 15% of records destroyed and 12 of the 19 known participants were tried and executed by the Nazi occupiers
27 Mar 1943
WWII US begins assault on Fondouk Pass Tunisia
27 Mar 2012
On This Day launches a sister site in Spanish Hoy en la Historia
27 Mar 2013
12 people are killed in the Philippines after a mini-tornado causes a boat to capsize
27 Mar 2014
UN General Assembly condemns Russias annexation of Crimea
27 Mar 2015
Russias Soyuz TMA-16M launches to deliver three crew members to the international space station to research the long-term effects of micro gravity
27 Mar 2016
Suicide bomb kills more than 70 people at a park in Lahore Pakistan Taliban connected Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claim responsibility
27 Mar 2019
British indie-rock duo Hers - English guitarist-singer Stephen Fitzpatrick (24) and Norwegian bassist Audun Laading (25) and American manager Trevor Engelbrektson (37) killed in car crash in Arizona
27 Mar 2019
Facebook bans white nationalism and white supremacy following criticism that Christchurch terrorist able to live-stream his attack
27 Mar 2019
UK Prime Minister Theresa May promises to stand down if parliament accepts her Brexit plan
27 Mar 2019
US Special Council Robert S. Mueller writes a letter to US Attorney William Barr regarding Barrs summary of the Mueller Report stating Barrs letter did not fully capture the context nature and substance of the findings. There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.
27 Mar 2021
114 people including children killed in one day by armed forces in Myanmar with more than 420 killed since protests began against the military coup [1]
27 Mar 2021
Iran and China sign major agreement guaranteeing Chinese investment of 400 billion and Iranian oil supply in return in Tehran [1]
27 Mar 2021
Militants attack the town of Palma northern Mozambique killing dozens in an escalation of violence in the area
27 Mar 2022
China announces Shanghai will be locked down in two stages over nine days affecting 25 million people to carry out COVID-19 testing [1]
27 Mar 2022
El Salvadors parliament declares a state of emergency after 62 gang killings in one day [1]
27 Mar 2023
At least 40 people are killed and 28 injured in a fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Jurez on the Mexican US border amid large numbers of migrants gathering on the Mexican border [1]
27 Mar 2023
Caitlin Clark records 41 points 12 assists and 10 rebounds in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament for Iowa against Louisville
27 Mar 2023
Convicted rapist fakes his own death by pretending to set himself alight (in reality kills someone else) to escape from prison in South Africa sparking large manhunt [1]
27 Mar 2023
Female shooter kills three children and three adults at private Christian school Convent Elementary in Nashville Tennessee before being shot and killed - 19th US school shooting in three months [1]
27 Mar 2023
Germany experiences one of its largest strikes in decades bringing public transport comes to an almost complete halt amid calls for higher wages [1]
27 Mar 2023
Humza Yousaf elected leader of Scottish SNP party as first ethnic minority leader of a devolved government and first Muslim to lead a major UK party
27 Mar 2023
Possibility of bases on the Moon becomes greater possibility after 300 billion tonnes of water stored in glass beads on Moons surface identified in lunar soil samples collected by Chinas Change-5 [1]
27 Mar 1003
Peace deal is signed between Holy Roman Emperor Henry II and the pagan Wends (Slavs)
27 Mar 1309
Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and its population after Venice seized the papal city of Ferrara
27 Mar 1329
Pope John XXII issues the papal bull In Agro Dominico condemning the writings of German mystic Meister Eckhart as heretical
27 Mar 1642
Sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office an unusual 18 months after his predecessor passed away
27 Mar 1706
Tekle Haymanot I takes the throne as Emperor of Ethiopia upon the retirement andor abdication of his father Iyasu I at 21
27 Mar 1708
James Francis Edward Stuart Prince of Wales and pretender to the Great British throne James III flees to Dunkirk after failed invasion attempt
27 Mar 1709
Dike at Hardinxveld breaks flooding Alblasserwaard in the Netherlands
27 Mar 1794
Naval Act of is signed by President George Washington authorizing the building of six frigates and establishing a permanent US Navy
27 Mar 1836
First Mormon temple is dedicated in Kirtland Ohio
27 Mar 1841
First US steam fire engine is tested in New York City
27 Mar 1860
M. L. Byrn patents a covered gimlet screw with a T handle more popularly known as a corkscrew
27 Mar 1865
Battle of Spanish Fort Union forces led by E.R.S. Canby lay siege to the heavily fortified Confederate Spanish Fort in Baldwin County Alabama
27 Mar 1871
First international rugby union match Scotland beats England 1-0 at Raeburn Place Edinburgh
27 Mar 1884
First long-distance telephone call Boston to New York
27 Mar 1963
Richard Beeching issues a report known as the Beeching Axe calling for significant cuts to the UK rail network
27 Mar 1990
US begins broadcasting TV Mart to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime
27 Mar 1995
Two-month ceasefire agreed by Government of Sudan in its civil war to treat health conditions such as Guinea worm and river blindness lasts six months the longest-ever health ceasefire [1]
27 Mar 2002
Passover Massacre Suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya Israel
27 Mar 2006
United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting before it is replaced by the Human Rights Council
27 Mar 2009
Situ Gintung an artificial lake in Indonesia fails killing at least 99 people
27 Mar 2023
Worlds oldest tartan confirmed as up to 500 years old after testing on material found 40 years earlier in Glen Affric bog by experts at National Museums Scotland [1]
27 Mar 2024
Harvard University says it will remove a 19th century book binding of human skin originally taken without consent from a deceased French mental patient [1]
27 Mar 1836
Mexican Army executes over 425 Texian Army prisoners of war in Goliad Republic of Texas [1]
27 Mar 1985
Bus transporting school children from Vorentoe High School plunges into Westdene Dam Johannesburg South Africa killing 42 [1]
27 Mar 1989
First African American soap opera Generations premieres on NBC-TV
27 Mar 2019
US Special Council Robert Mueller writes a letter to US Attorney William Barr regarding Barrs summary of the Mueller Report stating Barrs letter did not fully capture the context nature and substance of the findings. There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.
27 Mar 2023
Possibility of bases on the Moon becomes greater after 300 billion tonnes of water stored in glass beads on the Moons surface are identified in lunar soil samples collected by Chinas Change-5 [1]
27 Mar 2023
Worlds oldest tartan is confirmed to be up to 500 years old after testing on material found 40 years earlier in a Glen Affric bog by experts at National Museums Scotland [1]
27 Mar 2024
New analysis confirms climate change is slowing the rotation of Earth due to melting ice caps and will probably delay the next leap second by three years [1]
27 Mar 2025
European space telescope Gaia is shut down after a decade of charting the Milky Way and collecting data on nearly two billion stars and other celestial objects [1]
27 Mar 2025
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces a major restructure of the US Department of Health including laying off 33 % of its workforce about 10000 employees [1]
27 Mar 2134
32nd predicted perihelion passage of Halleys Comet