March 27 in History: Historical Events, Birthdays, Deaths & Holidays

1951  Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"   

1951  13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58   

1952  Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer   

1952  Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records   

1953  21 die in a train crash in Conneaut OH   

1953  21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio.   

1953  Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 76   

1955  Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)   

1955  9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours and Pajama Game win.   

1956  French commandos land in Algeria   

1956  US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"   

1956  Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84.   

1957  29th Academy Awards "Around World in 80 Days", Yul Brynner and Ingrid Bergman win   

1958  CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records   

1958  Havana Hilton opens.   

1958  Nikita Khrushchev is recorded as becoming Soviet premier and inaugural Secretary of Communist Party.   

1959  Grant Withers, actor (Okla Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54.   

1960  Ian Whyte, composer, dies at 58   

1961  Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen   

1961  Jack Kane, orch leader (Steve and Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37   

1962  Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school.   

1964  Earthquake strikes Anchorage AK, 9.2 on Richter scale, 131 die from earthquake and resulting tsunami; this is the most violent eathquake in US history   

1964  Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars   

1964  On the island of Cyprus the inaugural Canadians troops start duties with UN peacekeeping force   

1964  UN troops arrive on Cyprus.   

1966  Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe and Australia.   

1966  Canada launches 158 kg. instrument package into upper atmosphere; to study aurora borealis; inaugural all-Canadian space project, using Black Brant rocket   

1966  Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82.   

1967  Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49   

1968  Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco   

1968  Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia   

1968  Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, and Seryogin, in plane crash at 34.   

1969  Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2190 miles above southern Mars   

1969  Ottawa to build new international airport at Mirabel, near St-Jerome, 42 km north of Montreal , a BIG waste of money it later closes.   

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0972  King robert ii of france: King robert ii of france (d. 1031)   

1416  Antonio squarcialupi: Composer   

1554  Everhardus van bronchorst: Dutch lawyer   

1627  Stephen fox: English politician   

1665  Benjamin neukirch: German poet (herrn von hofmannswaldau)   

1676  Francis ii rákóczi: Leader of the hungarian uprising against the habsburg   

1696  Antoine court: French huguenot minister   

1702  Johann ernst eberlin: Composer   

0710  Rupert of salzburg: Rupert of salzburg   

0922  Al-hallaj al-mughith-al-hsayn mansur: Persian mystic, beheaded at 64   

0965  Arnulf i: The elder/the great, count of flanders (918-65),   

0973  Herman: Duke of saxony   

1378  Death of Gregory xi: [pierre r the beaufort], last french pope (1370-78),   

1462  Death of Vasili ii of russia: Grand prince of moscow (b. 1415)   

1472  Death of Janus pannonius: Hungarian poet/translator,   

1482  Death of Maria: Duchess of burgundy/countess of holland,