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What happened in history on this day: March 27?
On March 27 in ...
- 1865 - Siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama: captured by Federals.
- 1930 - First US radio broadcast from a ship at sea.
- 1933 - Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized.
- 1941 - Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years.
- 1942 - War Powers Act is signed into law as Public Law 507, providing for silver alloy 5-cent coins.
- 1943 - US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia.
- 1945 - General Dwight Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken.
- 1945 - Iwo Jima is occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 US killed.
- 1945 - US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden.
- 1953 - 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut, Ohio, USA.
- 1955 - 9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours and Pajama Game win.
- 1956 - US seizes American communist newspaper Daily Worker.
- 1957 - 29th Academy Awards: Around World in 80 Days, Yul Brynner, and Ingrid Bergman win.
- 1962 - Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school.
- 1964 - Earthquake strikes Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 9.2 on Richter scale, 131 die from earthquake and resulting tsunami; this is the most violent eathquake in US history.
- 1966 - Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe and Australia.
- 1969 - Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1969 - Launch of Mariner 7.
- 1973 - 45th Academy Awards: The Godfather, Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win. Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians.
- 1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
- 1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington D.C. Metro subway system opens.
- 1978 - Bob Fosse's Dancin' opens at Broadhurst Theater in New York City for 1,774 performances.
- 1979 - US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that police can't randomly stop cars.
- 1980 - Mount Saint Helens in Washington state becomes active after 123 years.
- 1985 - Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 1986 - Birth of Melissa Stern aka "Baby M" aka Sara Whitehead, surrogate baby, awarded to her dad William Stern.
- 1995 - 67th Academy Awards: Forest Gump, Tom Hanks and Jessica Lange win.
- 1997 - Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray.
- 1998 - The US Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male sexual impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
Births on March 27
- 1899 - Birth of Gloria Swanson in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Killer Bees, Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) (dies 1983).
- 1907 - Birth of Mary Treen in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actress (Emily - Willy).
- 1914 - Birth of Budd Schulberg in New York City, New York, USA; novelist (On the Waterfront).
- 1914 - Birth of Richard Denning in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA; actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-O).
- 1914 - Birth of Snooky Lanson in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; singer (Your Hit Parade, Five Star Jubilee).
- 1924 - Birth of Sarah L Vaughan in Newark, New Jersey, USA; jazz scat singer ("Broken Hearted Melody") (dies 1990).
- 1930 - Birth of David Janssen [Meyer] in Naponee, Nebraska, USA; actor (Fugitive, Harry O).
- 1930 - Birth of Richard Hayman in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show).
- 1936 - Birth of Jerry Lacy in Sioux City, Iowa, USA; actor (Play it Again Sam, Reverend Trask - Dark Shadows).
- 1940 - Birth of Austin Pendleton in Warren, Ohio, USA; actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again).
- 1947 - Birth of Tom Sullivan in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear).
- 1952 - Birth of Chick Vennera in Herkimer, New York, USA; actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War).
- 1953 - Birth of Pamela Roylance in Seattle, Washington, USA; actress (Sarah - Little House on the Prairie).
- 1958 - Birth of Michael O'Leary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; actor (Guiding Light, Fatal Games).
- 1963 - Birth of Todd Graves in Laurel, Mississippi, USA; skeet (Olympics-1992, 1996).
- 1966 - Birth of Kate Donahoo in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; American judoka (Olympics-1992).
- 1967 - Birth of Jaime Navarro in Bayamon Puerto Rico; pitcher (Chicago Cubs).
- 1967 - Birth of Talisa Soto [Miriam] in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (License to Kill).
- 1970 - Birth of Mariah Carey in New York City, New York, USA; singer ("Vision of Love", "Love Takes Time", "Hero").
- 1983 - Birth of Shawntinice Polk; American basketball player (dies 2005).
- 1986 - Birth of Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham; American professional wrestling valet.
- 1988 - Birth of Brenda Song, American actress.
Deaths on March 27
- 1938 - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at age 66.
- 1983 - Death of Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer, George Norlin Silver Medal from the University of Colorado (born 1898).
- 1986 - Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at age 88.
- 1987 - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at age 90.
- 1989 - Death of Malcolm Cowley, American author (born 1898).
- 1989 - Death of Jack Starrett, American actor and director (born 1936).
- 1992 - James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at age 84.
- 1995 - Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at age 67.
- 2002 - Death of Milton "Mr. Television" Berle; American comedian and actor (Texaco Star Theater, Emmy Award 1948, Television Hall of Fame 1984).
- 2009 - Death of Jack Dreyfus, American investment innovator, the "Lion on Wall Street" at age 95 in New York.
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