This Day in History
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.
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Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac
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Earthquake rocks Alaska
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March Madness crowns its first men s NCAA Champion
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President Jackson appoints John Eaton as secretary of war and starts scandal
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Mexican army executes 417 Texas revolutionaries at Goliad
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Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton are married
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Marlon Brando declines Best Actor Oscar
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Jumbo jets collide at Canary Islands airport
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Fingerprint evidence is used to solve a British murder case
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Lincoln Sherman and Grant plan final stages of Civil War
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Thomas Jefferson elected to the Continental Congress
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1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain
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