| 1350 |
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While besieging Gibraltar, Alfonso XI of Castile dies of the black death. |
| 1512 |
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Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida. |
| 1802 |
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The Treaty of Amiens is signed, ending the French Revolutionary War. |
| 1814 |
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U.S. troops under Gen. Andrew Jackson inflict a crushing defeat on the Creek Indians at Horshoe Bend in Northern Alabama. |
| 1835 |
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The Mexican army massacres Texan rebels at Gohad. |
| 1866 |
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President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill, which later becomes the 14th amendment. |
| 1884 |
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The first long-distance telephone call is made from Boston to New York. |
| 1893 |
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The American Bell Telephone Company makes the first long distance telephone call to its branch office in New York. |
| 1899 |
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The Italian inventor G. Marconi achieves the first international radio transmission between England and France. |
| 1900 |
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The London Parliament passes the War Loan Act, which gives 35 million pounds to the Boer War cause. |
| 1912 |
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The first cherry blossom trees, a gift from Japan, are planted in Washington, D.C. |
| 1933 |
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Some 55,000 people stage a protest against Hitler in New York. |
| 1941 |
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Tokeo Yoshikawa arrives in Oahu, Hawaii, to begin spying for Japan on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. |
| 1942 |
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The British raid the Nazi submarine base at St. Nazaire, France. |
| 1944 |
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One thousand Jews leave Drancy, France for the Auschwitz concentration camp. |
| 1944 |
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Thousands of Jews are murdered in Kaunas, Lithuania. The Gestapo shoots forty Jewish policemen in the Riga, Latvia ghetto. |
| 1945 |
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General Dwight Eisenhower declares that the German defenses on the Western Front have been broken. |
| 1952 |
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Elements of the U.S. Eighth Army reach the 38th parallel in Korea, the original dividing line between the two Koreas. |
| 1958 |
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The United States announces a plan to explore space near the moon. |
| 1976 |
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Washington, D.C. opens its subway system. |
| 1977 |
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In aviation’s worst disaster yet, 582 die when a KLM Pan Am 747 crashes. |
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Born on March 27 |
| 1785 |
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Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during the French Revolution. |
| 1809 |
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Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French town planner, designed modern-day Paris. |
| 1813 |
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Nathaniel Currier, lithographer for Currier and Ives. |
| 1845 |
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, accidentally discovered X-rays. |
| 1863 |
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Sir Henry Royce, cofounder the Rolls-Royce automotive company. |
| 1879 |
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Edward Steichen, pioneer of American photography. |
| 1906 |
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Pee Wee Russell, jazz clarinetist. |
| 1910 |
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John Robinson Pierce, the father of comunications satellites. |
| 1914 |
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Budd Schulberg, journalist, novelist and screenwriter (What Makes Sammy Run). |
| 1923 |
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Louis Simpson, Pultizer Prize-winning poet. |
| 1924 |
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Sarah Vaughan, jazz singer. |
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