March 27

Today's Events

  • 1512
    Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Fla
  • 1625
    Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne
  • 1794
    Pres Washington & Congress creates US Navy
  • 1802
    Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
  • 1807
    Vesta (asteroid) discovered by OLbers
  • 1836
    1st Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland Ohio
  • 1855
    Abraham Gesner receives a patent for kerosene
  • 1860
    ML Byrn patents corkscrew (NY)
  • 1912
    1st Japanese cherry trees planted in Wash DC
  • 1917
    Seattle Metropolitans 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens
  • 1933
    Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
  • 1945
    Gen Eisenhower declared German defenses on Western Front broken
  • 1958
    Khrushchev became Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
  • 1964
    Earthquake strikes Alaska - 8.4 on Richter scale - 100 die
  • 1968
    Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated
  • 1968
    Yuri Gagarin - 1st man to orbit Earth & Seryogin died in a plane crash
  • 1972
    Venera 8 launched to Venus
  • 1977
    582 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM 747-Pan Am 747 crash
  • 1977
    Diana Hyland dies at 40
  • 1980
    Mt. St. Helens becomes active after 123 years
  • 1986
    Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking
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