Today in History
27 March
August L Crelle
Charlie Chaplin
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| 1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida | ||
| 1599 Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland | ||
| 1625 Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne |
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| 1668 English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company | ||
| 1708 English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk | ||
| 1709 Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded) | ||
| 1713 Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar | ||
| 1721 France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid | ||
| 1758 Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine | ||
| 1765 Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist was born | ||
| 1780 August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway) was born | ||
| 1785 Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95) was born | ||
| 1794 Congress authorizes the U.S. president to provide a navy. | ||
| 1802 Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends | ||
| 1802 Pallas (asteroid) is discovered by Heinrich Olbers. | August L Crelle |
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| 1813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives) was born | ||
| 1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend: Gen Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians | ||
| 1836 The first Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio. | ||
| 1841 The first U.S. steam fire engine tested in New York City. | ||
| 1847 Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910) was born | ||
| 1848 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster | ||
| 1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene | ||
| 1857 Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician was born | ||
| 1861 Black demonstrators in Charleston, South Carolina, stage ride-ins on street cars. | ||
| 1863 Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce) was born | ||
| 1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment. |
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| 1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC | ||
| 1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) | ||
| 1917 The Seattle Metropolitans becomes the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup. | ||
| 1924 Canada recognizes USSR | ||
| 1924 New French govt of Poincar‚ begins | ||
| 1928 KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions | ||
| 1930 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea | ||
| 1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor | ||
| 1933 Japan leaves League of Nations | ||
| 1933 The Farm Credit Administration is authorized | ||
| 1937 Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam | ||
| 1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice | ||
| 1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to United States for 99 years. | ||
| 1941 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia) | ||
| 1943 Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau | ||
| 1943 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio | ||
| 1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia | ||
| 1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania | ||
| 1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno | ||
| 1944 1,000 Jews leave France for Auschwitz concentration camp. | ||
| 1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine | ||
| 1945 Gen. Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western front broken. | ||
| 1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed |
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| 1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden | ||
| 1950 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China | ||
| 1952 Sun Records of Memphis, Tennessee, begins releasing records. | ||
| 1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio | ||
| 1956 French commandos land in Algeria | ||
| 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and first secretary of the Communist Party. | ||
| 1961 Belgium govt of Eyskens resigns | ||
| 1961 Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen | ||
| 1964 The most violent quake (8.3) in North America strikes Anchorage, Alaska. | ||
| 1964 UN troops arrive on Cyprus | ||
| 1968 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia | ||
| 1969 Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston | ||
| 1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus | ||
| 1976 Washington DC underground Metro opens | Charlie Chaplin |
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| 1977 570 people killed when two planes collide on ground in Canary Islands. | ||
| 1980 Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die) | ||
| 1980 Mount St. Helens in Washington state becomes active after 123 years. | ||
| 1987 President Habr‚'s troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad | ||
| 1990 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die | ||
| 1994 Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed | ||
| 1997 Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray | ||
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