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Historical Events
on March 27th
- Lead Story
- FDA approves Viagra,1998
- American Revolution
- Jefferson elected to the Continental Congress,1775
- Automotive
- Toyota founder dies,1952
- Civil War
- Lincoln, Sherman, and Grant meet,1865
- Cold War
- TV Marti begins broadcasting to Cuba,1990
- Crime
- Fingerprint evidence is used to solve a British murder case,1905
- Disaster
- Jumbo jets collide at Canary Islands airport,1977
- General Interest
- Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac,1912
- Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier,1958
- Earthquake rocks Alaska,1964
- Hollywood
- Marlon Brando declines Best Actor Oscar,1973
- Literary
- Poet Louis Simpson born,1923
- Music
- Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton are married,1979
- Old West
- Mexicans execute defenders of Goliad,1836
- Presidential
- Jackson appoints John Eaton as secretary of war and starts scandal,1829
- Sports
- March Madness is born,1939
- Vietnam War
- South Vietnamese forces conduct combat operations in Cambodia,1965
- Bombing of Cambodia to continue,1973
- World War I
- Bessarabia annexed by Romania,1918
- World War II
- Germans launch last of their V-2s,1945
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