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27 March, 2006

The UN Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.

27 March, 2004

HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

27 March, 2002

Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.

27 March, 2000

Phillips explosion of 2000 killed 1 and injured 71 in Pasadena, Texas.

27 March, 1998

The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.

27 March, 1994

One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.

27 March, 1993

Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the Peoples Republic of China.

27 March, 1990

The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.

27 March, 1986

Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.

27 March, 1980

The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

27 March, 1977

Tenerife disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 247 on KLM and 335 on PAN AM) and 61 survived on a PAN AM flight.

27 March, 1970

The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight

27 March, 1969

Mariner 7 is launched.

27 March, 1968

Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Cosmonaut, first human in space dies in aircraft training accident.

27 March, 1964

The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.

27 March, 1963

Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdoms rail network. See Beeching axe.

27 March, 1958

Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

27 March, 1948

The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.

27 March, 1945

World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japans ports and waterways begins.

27 March, 1943

World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.

27 March, 1942

World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France.

27 March, 1941

World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.

27 March, 1938

Battle of Tai er zhuang.

27 March, 1918

Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.

27 March, 1906

Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

27 March, 1890

A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.

27 March, 1881

Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperence by the Salvation Army

27 March, 1871

First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

27 March, 1868

The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.

27 March, 1854

Crimean War: United Kingdom declares war on Russia.

27 March, 1851

First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.

27 March, 1846

Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.

27 March, 1836

Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.

27 March, 1834

Andrew Jackson is censured by the U.S. Senate for his actions regarding the U.S. National Bank.

27 March, 1814

War of 1812: In central Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

27 March, 1794

The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

27 March, 1794

Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.

27 March, 1782

Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

27 March, 1642

The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes his office

27 March, 1625

Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

27 March, 1613

First English child born in Canada at Cupers Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.

27 March, 1513

Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.

27 March, 1329

Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.

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