Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 27
This is a list of selected March 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.
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President Jiang Zemin of China
Emilio Aguinaldo
USS Constitution
Ball-and-stick model of sildenafil
Yosemite Valley
Nikita Khrushchev
CGI rendering of the Tenerife airport disaster
One of the aircraft involved in the Tenerife disaster
Goliad Executions by Norman Mills Price
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Tatmadaw Day in Myanmar | refimprove |
| 1329 – Pope John XXII issued a papal bull declaring that some of the works of German theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart were heretical. | Too many CN tags (11) |
| 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a leading British Whig Party statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as prime minister of Great Britain. | unreferenced section |
| 1814 – In central Alabama, U.S. and Native American forces under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. | refimprove section |
| 1851 – Explorer Lafayette Bunnell and other members of the Mariposa Battalion became the non-indigenous discoverers of California's Yosemite Valley. | unreferenced section |
| 1993 – Jiang Zemin succeeded Yang Shangkun to become President of the People's Republic of China. | refimprove |
| 2009 – A suicide bomber killed at least 48 people during Friday prayer at a mosque in Jamrud, Pakistan. | Source and article inconsistencies re death toll |
Eligible
- 1794 – To protect American merchant ships from Barbary pirates, Congress passed the Naval Act to authorize the building of six frigates, which eventually became the U.S. Navy.
- 1836 – At least 425 Texian prisoners of war were executed in the Goliad massacre (depicted), under orders from Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1884 – Outraged by a jury's decision to convict a man of manslaughter instead of murder, a mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, began three days of rioting.
- 1899 – Philippine–American War: American forces defeated troops commanded by Philippine president Emilio Aguinaldo at the Battle of Marilao River.
- 1941 – World War II: A group of Serbian-nationalist officers of the Royal Yugoslav Army Air Force carried out a coup d'état after Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.
- 1945 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began Operation Starvation, laying naval mines in many of Japan's vital water routes and ports to disrupt enemy shipping.
- 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, assumed the office of premier.
- 1964 – The 9.2 Mw Good Friday earthquake, the strongest in U.S. history, and subsequent tsunamis devastated Anchorage, Alaska, killing over 130 people.
- 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, an oil pipeline spanning the length of Alaska, began.
- 1976 – The Washington Metro, the second-busiest rapid transit system in the U.S., opened to commuters.
- 1980 – Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt failed in their attempt to corner the world silver market, causing panic in commodity and futures exchanges.
- 1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike, the largest in the history of the Eastern Bloc, in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.
- 1998 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug sildenafil, better known by the trade name Viagra, for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
- 1999 – During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an Army of Yugoslavia unit shot down a U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft.
- 2009 – A failure of the dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Tangerang District, Indonesia, resulted in floods killing at least 100 people.
- Born/died this day: | Sigismund Báthory |d|1613| Domenico Lalli |b|1679| Jane Colden |b|1724| Alexander Vostokov |b|1781| Virginia Minor |b|1824| Rosa Campbell Praed |b|1851| Jan van Beers |b|1852| Kick Kelly |d|1926| Michael Joseph Savage |d|1940| Elisheva Bikhovski |d|1949| Julia Alvarez |b|1950| Mariah Carey |b|1969| Mother Angelica |d|2016
March 27: Mothering Sunday (Western Christianity, 2022); Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania (1918)
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Mary Mallon
- 1638 – The first of four strong earthquakes struck Calabria in southern Italy, which resulted in up to 30,000 combined deaths.
- 1850 – San Diego, the first European settlement in present-day California, was incorporated as a city.
- 1915 – Mary Mallon (pictured), the first person to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, was placed into quarantine in New York City, where she spent the rest of her life.
- 1977 – Two Boeing 747 airliners collided on a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife, killing 583 people in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history.
- 2002 – Second Intifada: A suicide bomber killed around 30 Israeli civilians and injured about 140 others in Netanya, triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorist military incursion into the West Bank.
- Simon Bradstreet (d. 1697)
- Thomas Graham Brown (b. 1882)
- T. Sailo (d. 2015)