Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
March 27
| 1350 | While besieging Gibraltar, Alfonso XI of Castile dies of the black death. | |
| 1512 | Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida. | |
| 1802 | The Treaty of Amiens is signed, ending the French Revolutionary War. | |
| 1814 | U.S. troops under Gen. Andrew Jackson inflict a crushing defeat on the Creek Indians at Horshoe Bend in Northern Alabama. | |
| 1836 | The Mexican army massacres Texan rebels at Goliad. | |
| 1866 | President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill, which later becomes the 14th amendment. | |
| 1884 | The first long-distance telephone call is made from Boston to New York. | |
| 1893 | The American Bell Telephone Company makes the first long distance telephone call to its branch office in New York. | |
| 1899 | The Italian inventor G. Marconi achieves the first international radio transmission between England and France. | |
| 1900 | The London Parliament passes the War Loan Act, which gives 35 million pounds to the Boer War cause. | |
| 1912 | The first cherry blossom trees, a gift from Japan, are planted in Washington, D.C. | |
| 1933 | Some 55,000 people stage a protest against Hitler in New York. | |
| 1941 | Tokeo Yoshikawa arrives in Oahu, Hawaii, to begin spying for Japan on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. | |
| 1942 | The British raid the Nazi submarine base at St. Nazaire, France. | |
| 1944 | One thousand Jews leave Drancy, France for the Auschwitz concentration camp. | |
| 1944 | Thousands of Jews are murdered in Kaunas, Lithuania. The Gestapo shoots forty Jewish policemen in the Riga, Latvia ghetto. | |
| 1945 | General Dwight Eisenhower declares that the German defenses on the Western Front have been broken. | |
| 1952 | Elements of the U.S. Eighth Army reach the 38th parallel in Korea, the original dividing line between the two Koreas. | |
| 1958 | The United States announces a plan to explore space near the moon. | |
| 1976 | Washington, D.C. opens its subway system. | |
| 1977 | In aviation's worst disaster yet, 582 die when a KLM Pan Am 747 crashes. | |
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Born on March 27 |
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| 1785 | Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during the French Revolution. | |
| 1809 | Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French town planner, designed modern-day Paris. | |
| 1813 | Nathaniel Currier, lithographer for Currier and Ives. | |
| 1845 | Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, accidentally discovered X-rays. | |
| 1863 | Sir Henry Royce, cofounder the Rolls-Royce automotive company. | |
| 1879 | Edward Steichen, pioneer of American photography. | |
| 1906 | Pee Wee Russell, jazz clarinetist. | |
| 1910 | John Robinson Pierce, the father of comunications satellites. | |
| 1914 | Budd Schulberg, journalist, novelist and screenwriter (What Makes Sammy Run). | |
| 1923 | Louis Simpson, Pultizer Prize-winning poet. | |
| 1924 | Sarah Vaughan, jazz singer. | |
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