GEN - On this date in history - 3/27

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Today is Tuesday 03/27/2001

1512 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida.

1625 - Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, ascends the throne.

1794 - President Washington and Congress authorize creation of US Navy.

1836 - First Mormon temple is dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio.

1860 - M.L. Byrn of New York patents a corkscrew.

1912 - First Japanese cherry trees planted in Washington, D.C.

1917 - The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens.

1933 - Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized.

1945 - Gen. Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken.

1958 - Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and first sect of Communist Party.

1964 - Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on the Richter scale, 100 killed.

1968 - Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, first man to orbit earth, dies in a plane crash.

1977 - 582 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM 747 crashes into Pan Am 747 on a foggy runway.

1977 - Diana Hyland dies at age 40.

Birthdays

1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives.) 1863 - Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.

1892 - Ferde Grofe, composer

1899 - Gloria Swanson, Actress

1912 - James Callaghan, British Prime Minister

1914 - Snooky Lanson, Singer

1917 - Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of State

1924 - Sarah Vaughn, Newark NJ

1927 - Anthony Lewis, Newspaper columnist

1934 - Arthur Mitchell, Dance company director

1939 - Cale Yarborough, Auto racer

1942 - Michael York, Actor

1952 - Maria Schneider, Actress: Last Tango in Paris

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2001


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