Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 27
This is a list of selected March 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Tatmadaw Day in Myanmar | refimprove |
| 1329 – Pope John XXII issued a papal bull declaring that some of the works of German theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart were heretical. | Too many CN tags, expansion |
| 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a leading British Whig Party statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as Prime Minister of Great Britain. | unreferenced section |
| 1814 – In central Alabama, U.S. and Native American forces under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. | refimprove section |
| 1836 – Texas Revolution: Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the execution of about 400 Texian prisoners of war. | Too many CN tags |
| 1851 – Explorer Lafayette Bunnell and other members of the Mariposa Battalion became the non-indigenous discoverers of California's Yosemite Valley. | unreferenced section |
| 1993 – Jiang Zemin succeeded Yang Shangkun to become President of the People's Republic of China. | refimprove |
| 2009 – A suicide bomber killed at least 48 people during Friday prayer at a mosque in Jamrud, Pakistan. | Source and article inconsistencies re death toll |
Eligible
- 1794 – To protect American merchant ships from Barbary pirates, Congress passed the Naval Act to authorize the building of six frigates, which eventually became the U.S. Navy.
- 1850 – San Diego, the first European settlement in what is now California, was incorporated as a city.
- 1899 – Philippine–American War: In the Battle of Marilao River, Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo personally led troops into battle.
- 1915 – "Typhoid Mary", the first person to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, was placed into quarantine, where she spent the rest of her life.
- 1964 – The 9.2 Mw Good Friday earthquake, the strongest in U.S. history, and subsequent tsunamis devastated Anchorage, Alaska, killing over 130 people.
- 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, an oil pipeline spanning the length of Alaska, began.
- 1976 – The Washington Metro, the second-busiest rapid transit system in the U.S., opened to commuters.
- 1977 – Two Boeing 747 airliners collided on a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 people in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history.
- 1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike, the biggest strike in the history of the Eastern Bloc, in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.
- 1998 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug sildenafil, better known by the trade name Viagra, for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
- 1999 – During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an Army of Yugoslavia unit shot down a U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft.
- 2002 – A suicide bomber killed about 30 Israeli civilians and injured about 140 others at the Park Hotel in Netanya, triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorist Israeli military incursion into the West Bank, two days later.
- 2009 – A failure of the dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Tangerang District, Indonesia, resulted in floods killing at least 100 people.
- Born/died this day: Domenico Lalli (b. 1679) · Simon Bradstreet (d. 1697) · Jane Colden (b. 1724) · Rosa Campbell Praed (b. 1851) · Jan van Beers (b. 1852) · Kick Kelly (d. 1926) · Elisheva Bikhovski (d. 1949) · Julia Alvarez (b. 1950) · Mariah Carey (b. 1969 or 1970)
- 1884 – Outraged by a jury's decision to convict a man of manslaughter instead of murder, a mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, began three days of rioting.
- 1941 – Encouraged by the British Special Operations Executive, a group of pro-Western Serb-nationalist Royal Yugoslav Army Air Force officers planned and conducted a coup d'état after Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.
- 1945 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began Operation Starvation, laying naval mines in many of Japan's vital water routes and ports to disrupt enemy shipping.
- 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev (pictured), First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, assumed the office of premier.
- 1980 – Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt failed in their attempt to corner the world silver market, causing panic in commodity and futures exchanges.
Sigismund Báthory (d. 1613) · Virginia Minor (b. 1824) · Michael Joseph Savage (d. 1940)