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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