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- 0922 The Persian mystic Al-Hallaj (abu al-Mughith-al-Hsayn ibn Mansur), 64, is sentenced to death for heresy after a long trial and is flogged, mutilated, and beheaded March 27 at Baghdad He has supported reform of the caliphate and been seen as a rabble-rouser
- 1329 Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
- 1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León sights Florida
- 1599 Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant-General of Ireland
- 1614 Port Royal Nova Scotia Jean de Biencourt, Baron de Poutrincourt 1557-1615 rescues starving survivors of Port Royal and takes them back to France
- 1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
- 1625 Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends to throne
- 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
- 1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1790 The shoelace invented
- 1794 Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
- 1794 The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
- 1802 The Treaty of Amiens March 27 brings a temporary end to hostilities among Europe's warring powers Spain yields Trinidad to Britain but secures Minorca, the Batavian republic cedes Ceylon to Britain, the British give up all their other conquests to France and her allies, but hostilities soon begin again
- 1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-Indians
- 1814 War of 1812: In central Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
- 1834 Andrew Jackson is censured by the U.S. Senate for his actions regarding the U.S. National Bank.
- 1836 Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
- 1841 First US steam fire engine tested, New York NY
- 1848 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
- 1849 Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
- 1851 First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.
- 1854 Crimean War: United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
- 1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene (can jet fuel be far behind?)
- 1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
- 1861 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
- 1863 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
- 1865 Independent British colony of Kaffaria is incorporated with Cape Colony in South Africa.
- 1865 Siege of Spanish Fort AL: captured by Federals
- 1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
- 1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th Amendment
- 1868 ??The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
- 1871 First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
- 1878 Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect whose designs include the Albert memorial in Hyde Park, London, dies.
- 1881 Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperence by the Salvation Army
- 1890 A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
- 1906 Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- 1912 First Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington DC
- 1914 First successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
- 1917 Lt. Frederick M. W. Harvey (Lord Strathcona's Horse Cdn.) wins the Victoria Cross at Gyencourt France
- 1918 Lt. Alan Arnett MCLeod Cdn. (Royal Flying Corp) wins the Victoria Cross for service over France
- 1918 Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
- 1920 Film stars Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks wed
- 1920 Hermann Müller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
- 1923 Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist whose inventions include the thermos flask and cordite, dies.
- 1924 Canada recognizes USSR
- 1924 New French government of Poincaré begins
- 1930 The first US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
- 1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
- 1931 John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
- 1932 De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt
- 1933 At a mass rally in New York's Madison Square Garden, Jewish leaders threaten a counter-boycott against German-made goods unless their anti-Jewish boycott is called off.
- 1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
- 1933 Japan leaves League of Nations
- 1933 Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
- 1938 Battle of Tai er zhuang.
- 1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
- 1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
- 1941 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
- 1941 World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
- 1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
- 1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
- 1942 Japanese still residing in California are told they must evacuate within 24 hours of receiving orders.
- 1942 World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France.
- 1943 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) first heard on CBS Radio
- 1943 HMS DASHER lost 5 miles south of Cumbraes Island in Firth of Clyde, SW Scotland - by aviation gasoline explosion. Working up after repairs to storm-damage sustained during Russian convoy JW.53 the previous month
- 1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
- 1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
- 1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
- 1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
- 1944 Australian Government launches First Victory Loan aimed at raising £150 million ($300 million) for the war effort Twelve major government war loans were offered to the Australian public during World War Two
- 1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
- 1945 Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"
- 1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
- 1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed
- 1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
- 1948 The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
- 1951 Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"
- 1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
- 1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut OH
- 1955 Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
- 1956 French commandos land in Algeria
- 1956 US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
- 1957 29th Academy Awards: "Around World in 80 Days", Yul Brynner & Ingrid Bergman win
- 1958 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
- 1958 Havana Hilton opens
- 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
- 1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
- 1963 Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. See Beeching axe.
- 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 first Canadians troops start duties with UN peacekeeping force
- 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.
- 1964 UN troops arrive on Cyprus
- 1966 Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
- 1966 Canada launches 158 kg. instrument package into upper atmosphere; to study aurora borealis; first all-Canadian space project, using Black Brant rocket.
- 1966 Visitor posting - Cheryl Ramasami was born in Durban, KZN, South Africa
- 1966 Visitor posting - Russel Anders is born
- 1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco
- 1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Beatles - Lady Madonna
- 1968 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia
- 1968 Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Cosmonaut, first human in space dies in aircraft training accident.
- 1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190 miles above southern Mars
- 1969 Mariner 7 is launched.
- 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
- 1970 Ringo releases his first solo album "Sentimental Journey"
- 1970 The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight
- 1971 SS Texaco Oklahoma breaks in half and sinks off Cape Hatteras, killing 31 of 44 aboard.
- 1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus
- 1973 45th Academy Awards: "Godfather", Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
- 1973 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession
- 1974 Ottawa and provinces agree that the price of domestic crude oil will rise from $4 to $6.50 a barrel those were the days!
- 1976 Number one hit on UK music charts - Brotherhood Of Man - Save Your Kisses For Me
- 1976 The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC Metro system is opened.
- 1976 Washington DC underground Metro opens
- 1977 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747's crash, Tenerife
- 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.
- 1978 Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 performances
- 1979 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars
- 1980 Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900 meter down (23 die)
- 1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
- 1980 Silver Thursday market crash.
- 1980 TSE Index drops 5.3%, biggest one day loss since 1940; after attempt by Hunt Brothers of Texas to corner silver market and yup I boought silver at $50.00 U.S.
- 1980 The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
- 1982 "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 performances
- 1982 Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match vs Sri Lanka at Lahore
- 1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Goombay Dance Band - Seven Tears
- 1983 Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1984 A new Musical, Starlight Express opens on the West End in London. Cast includes Ray Shell as Rusty the Steam Engine and Stephanie Lawrence as Pearl the Observation Car.
- 1984 Near North Coast of New Guinea, Papua a 6.8 quake injured 11 people and many buildings destroyed on Karkar. Minor
- 1985 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 1986 Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer, Angela Taylor, and injuring 21 people.
- 1986 Visitor posting - Theodore E. Taylor JR Was Born - USA
- 1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
- 1987 President Habré's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad
- 1988 Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase
- 1989 Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
- 1989 First half-black soap opera, "Generations", premieres on NBC-TV
- 1990 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
- 1990 New South Wales beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
- 1990 Provincial finance ministers decline to help Ottawa collect GST, but later some can be "BOUGHT"
- 1991 New Kids on the Block's Donnie Wahlberg arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
- 1993 Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
- 1994 Church in Piedmont AL collapses in tornado, 19 killed
- 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.
- 1994 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald
- 1994 Visitor posting - Priyanka was born - USA
- 1995 67th Academy Awards: "Forest Gump", Tom Hanks & Jessica Lange win
- 1995 Bell Canada says it will slash 10,000 jobs over three years while spending $1.7-billion to remake Canada's largest phone company
- 1995 The Tragically Hip win Juno awards for entertainer and group of the year.
- 1996 "State Fair", opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances
- 1996 Visitor posting - Seth Mack was born - USA
- 1997 "Young Man From Atlanta", opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances
- 1997 39 cult members in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
- 1997 Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray
- 1998 Visitor posting - Megan T was born - United Kingdom
- 2002 Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.
- 2004 HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
- 2006 The UN Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Joseph James Loiselle was born.
- 2008 Visitor posting - my spouse Salematou Bangoura and I, Karamba Bayo were issued our employment authorization
- 2009 Marilyn Manson releases We're From America, a new era begins.
- 2009 Visitor posting - VAN TABOT PESSY EGBE ONEGE was born - Cameroon
- 2010 Visitor posting - Tyler and April started dating - USA
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