This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
03/27/1416 Antonio Squarcialupi, composer 
03/27/1554 Everhardus van Bronchorst, lawyer 
03/27/1702 Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer 
03/27/1710 Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer 
03/27/1746 Augustin Ullinger, composer 
03/27/1746 Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney 
03/27/1757 Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer 
03/27/1760 Ishmail Spicer, composer 
03/27/1772 Giovanni Liverati, composer 
03/27/1785 Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during the French Revolution 
03/27/1797 Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French writer (Mo‹se Chatterton) 
03/27/1813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives) 
03/27/1816 George Elvey, composer 
03/27/1818 Jakob Axel Josephson, composer 
03/27/1823 Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
03/27/1844 Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer 
03/27/1845 Wilhelm Konrad R”ntgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901) 
03/27/1847 Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910) 
03/27/1851 Paul Vincent d' Indy, composer 
03/27/1851 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer 
03/27/1851 Vincent d'Indy, Paris France, dandy composer (Symphonie C‚venole) 
03/27/1854 Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le Chant Gr‚gorien) 
03/27/1858 Peter Christian Lutkin, composer 
03/27/1863 Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce) 
03/27/1867 Edyth Walker, US singer 
03/27/1871 Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thom

03/27/1871 Peter JM Aalberse, 2nd member of parliament/minister of Labor 
03/27/1879 Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography 
03/27/1883 Jan Kunc, composer 
03/27/1886 Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus) 
03/27/1889 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat 
03/27/1892 Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grof‚, NY, composer 
03/27/1893 Dragoljub 'Draza' Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator 
03/27/1897 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist 
03/27/1899 Gloria Swanson, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) 
03/27/1901 Albert Henneberg, composer 
03/27/1901 Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD) 
03/27/1901 Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974) 
03/27/1903 Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF) 
03/27/1907 Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy) 
03/27/1908 Jacques [Iza„k] den Haan, writer (Dangerous Book) 
03/27/1909 Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist 
03/27/1909 Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German historian (Of Anti semitism) 
03/27/1910 Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932) 
03/27/1912 James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79) 
03/27/1912 Reuel Lahmer, composer 
03/27/1912 Robert Watson Hughes, composer 
03/27/1913 Godfrey Turner, composer 
03/27/1914 Budd Schulberg, author (On the Waterfront) 
03/27/1914 Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)

03/27/1914 Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee) 
03/27/1917 Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80) 
03/27/1917 Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist) 
03/27/1919 Julian Amery, conservatie minister 
03/27/1919 Simon van Collem, journalist/TV host 
03/27/1921 Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967-  ) 
03/27/1923 Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death) 
03/27/1923 Victor Hochhauser, impresario 
03/27/1924 Harold Nicholas, US actor(?) 
03/27/1924 Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)

03/27/1925 Lord Plumb, MEP 
03/27/1925 Robert Cohan, artistic director (Contemporary Dance Trust) 
03/27/1926 Louis Blom-Cooper QC, press arbiter 
03/27/1927 Anthony Lewis, newspaper columnist (NY Times) 
03/27/1927 Lord Fanshawe, MP 
03/27/1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku, cellist/teacher (Moscow Conservatory) 
03/27/1928 Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977-  ) 
03/27/1930 Bob den Uyl, journalist/writer (Birds Look) 
03/27/1930 David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O) 
03/27/1930 Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show) 
03/27/1930 Stephen Joshua Sondheim, composer 
03/27/1931 Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer 
03/27/1933 Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School) 
03/27/1934 Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem) 
03/27/1934 David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science) 
03/27/1935 Julian Glover, London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela) 
03/27/1936 Jerry Lacy, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Play it Again Sam) 
03/27/1936 Malcolm Goldstein, composer 
03/27/1937 Johnny 'Clyde' Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion) 
03/27/1939 Jay C Kim, (Rep-R-California) 
03/27/1939 Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives) 
03/27/1940 Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Won Daytona 500 4 times) 
03/27/1941 Charles Pashayan Jr, (Rep-R-CA, 1979-  ) 
03/27/1941 June Wilkinson, Eastbourne England, actress (Pajama Tops) 
03/27/1941 Liese Prokop, Austria, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1968) 
03/27/1942 Michael York, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers) 
03/27/1942 Raymond J McGrath, (Rep-R-NY, 1981-  ) 
03/27/1943 Bob Carr, (Rep-D-MI, 1975-81, 83-  ) 
03/27/1943 M Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan) 
03/27/1946 Carl Weintraub, actor (Harry-Executive Suite) 
03/27/1947 Tom Sullivan, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear) 
03/27/1950 Maria Ewing, opera singer 
03/27/1950 Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds) 
03/27/1952 Chick Vennera, Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)

03/27/1952 Maria Schneider, Paris, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor

03/27/1953 Annemarie Moser-Pr”ll, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1980) 
03/27/1953 Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairi

03/27/1956 Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos) 
03/27/1956 Thomas Wassberg, Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1980)

03/27/1957 Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch) 
03/27/1957 Duncan Goodhew, England, 100m breast stroke swimmer (Oly-Gold-1980) 
03/27/1958 Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-New York) 
03/27/1959 Andy Farriss, Australian rock keyboardist (INXS-Original Sin) 
03/27/1960 Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter 
03/27/1961 Clark Datchler, vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Don't Say it's Love) 
03/27/1963 Randall Cunningham, NFL QB (Phila Eagles) 
03/27/1963 Xuxa, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, singer/actress (Xuxamania) 
03/27/1966 Kate Donahoo, Las Vegas NV, US judoka (Olympic-92) 
03/27/1967 Talisa Soto, [Miriam], Brooklyn NY, actress (Licence to Kill) 
03/27/1971 Mariah Carey, NYC, singer (Love Takes Time) 
03/27/1986 Melissa Stern, [Baby M]/[Sara Whitehead], surrogate baby 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
03/27/ 965 Arnulf I, count of Flanders (918-65), dies 
03/27/1211 Sancho I, King of Portugal, dies at 56 
03/27/1378 Gregory XI, [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), die

03/27/1482 Maria, duchess of Bourgondie/countess of Holland, dies at 25 
03/27/1668 Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36 
03/27/1679 Abraham Mignon, still life painter, dies at 38 
03/27/1701 Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, earl of Tourville/French admiral, dies 
03/27/1761 Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72 
03/27/1769 Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60 
03/27/1770 Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies 
03/27/1809 Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92 
03/27/1826 Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63 
03/27/1850 Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53 
03/27/1875 Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasv‚rus), dies 
03/27/1878 Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44 
03/27/1889 Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 65 
03/27/1894 Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies 
03/27/1898 Sajjid Ahmad Chan, co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80 
03/27/1900 Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69 
03/27/1910 Alexander E Agassiz, US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies 
03/27/1910 David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72 
03/27/1920 Johan G Dancer, poet (Meetings), dies 
03/27/1922 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63 
03/27/1924 Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83 
03/27/1928 Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64 
03/27/1938 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66 
03/27/1939 Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57 
03/27/1945 Jírgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42 
03/27/1948 Karel Candael, composer, dies at 64 
03/27/1953 Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 77 
03/27/1960 Ian Whyte, composer, dies at 58 
03/27/1961 Jack Kane, orch leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy William Show), dies at 3

03/27/1966 Mien Labberton, poetess, dies 
03/27/1968 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, die in plane crash

03/27/1972 Mauritius C Escher, lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73 
03/27/1973 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer, dies at 72 
03/27/1975 Arthur Bliss, English composer/conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83 
03/27/1977 Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41 
03/27/1977 Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies at 46 in a plane crash 
03/27/1977 Lodewijk de Vocht, composer, dies at 89 
03/27/1982 Joris No‰, Flemish literary, dies 
03/27/1983 James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75 
03/27/1983 Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at 76 
03/27/1986 Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88 
03/27/1987 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90 
03/27/1988 John van de Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67 
03/27/1991 Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer 
03/27/1991 Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91 
03/27/1992 Anita Colby, 1st $100 an hour model, dies at 77 of lung disease 
03/27/1992 Anita Colby, US model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77 
03/27/1992 Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89 
03/27/1992 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84 
03/27/1992 Martin Engelman, cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies 
03/27/1993 Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47 
03/27/1993 Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies at 61 of cancer 
03/27/1993 Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62 
03/27/1993 Wilhelmus MJ Russell, Member of Dutch 1st chamber (KVP/CDA), dies 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
03/27/1512 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Le¢n sights Florida 
03/27/1625 Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne 
03/27/1794 Congress authorizes the president 'to provide a naval armament' (Nav

03/27/1802 Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers 
03/27/1802 Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends 
03/27/1807 Vesta (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers 
03/27/1836 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland Ohio) 
03/27/1841 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC 
03/27/1848 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster 
03/27/1849 Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill 
03/27/1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene 
03/27/1860 M.L. Byrn patents the corkscrew (NY) 
03/27/1861 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars 
03/27/1863 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer 
03/27/1865 Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals 
03/27/1866 Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend 
03/27/1871 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0 
03/27/1879 Longest championship fight (136 rounds) 
03/27/1884 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY 
03/27/1906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #595 Polyxena 
03/27/1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #594 Mireille 
03/27/1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC 
03/27/1916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #825 Tanina 
03/27/1916 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #850 Altona 
03/27/1917 Seattle Metropolitans, 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens

03/27/1920 Hermann Mller becomes German chancellor (SPD) 
03/27/1922 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #976 Benjamina 
03/27/1922 J Palisa discovers asteroid #975 Perseverantia 
03/27/1924 Canada recognizes USSR 
03/27/1924 New French govt of Poincar‚ begins 
03/27/1928 KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions 
03/27/1930 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea 
03/27/1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized 
03/27/1933 Japan leaves Leaguew of Nations 
03/27/1936 WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air 
03/27/1937 Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam 
03/27/1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge 
03/27/1939 University of Oregon wins 1st NCAA basketball championship 
03/27/1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice

03/27/1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years 
03/27/1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul 
03/27/1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire 
03/27/1942 Japan forces Java to use 'Tokyo time' 1« hour forward 
03/27/1942 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC) 
03/27/1943 Assassination group-Van der Veen on Amsterdams registers people 
03/27/1943 Assassinationattempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau 
03/27/1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia 
03/27/1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp 
03/27/1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania 
03/27/1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo 
03/27/1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno 
03/27/1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine 
03/27/1945 DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title 
03/27/1945 Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken 
03/27/1945 Iwo Jima captured 
03/27/1945 Okla beats NYU for NCAA basketball championship 
03/27/1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden 
03/27/1950 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China 
03/27/1950 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting 
03/27/1951 Kentucky beats Kansas for NCAA basketball championship 
03/27/1952 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer 
03/27/1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins relasing records 
03/27/1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio 
03/27/1955 WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting 
03/27/1956 French commandos land in Algeria 
03/27/1956 US seizes US communistic newspaper 'Daily Worker' 
03/27/1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Par

03/27/1961 Belgium govt of Eyskens resigns 
03/27/1961 Failed assassination attempts on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen 
03/27/1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic schoo

03/27/1962 Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy 
03/27/1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England) 
03/27/1964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die 
03/27/1964 UN-troops arrives on Cyprus 
03/27/1966 Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia 
03/27/1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in SF 
03/27/1968 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia 
03/27/1969 Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston 
03/27/1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars 
03/27/1970 Ringo releases his 1st solo album 'Sentimental Journey' 
03/27/1971 UCLA wins their 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title 
03/27/1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus 
03/27/1973 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession 
03/27/1973 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2562 
03/27/1976 Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title 
03/27/1977 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerif

03/27/1978 Kentucky beats Duke for NCAA basketball championship 
03/27/1978 Rutles 'All You Need is Cash' is shown on British TV 
03/27/1979 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars 
03/27/1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years 
03/27/1981 John Lennon releases 'Watching the Wheels' in UK 
03/27/1982 Randy Holt sets Wash Cap record of 34 penalty minutes 
03/27/1983 Larry Holmes decisions Lucien Rodriquez to remain heavyweight champ 
03/27/1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking 
03/27/1987 President Habr‚s troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad 
03/27/1989 1st half-black soap opera, 'Generations,' premieres on NBC-TV 
03/27/1990 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die

03/27/1991 New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky 
03/27/1992 Bruce Springsteen releases 'Human Touch' & 'Lucky Town' 
03/27/1994 Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed 
03/27/2134 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 
  
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