March 27......

March 27 is the 86th (87th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Alienation "How does it feel to be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?" — Bob Dylan

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bigotry, Chauvinism, & Theocracy "I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." — George H. W. Bush

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1350 - While besieging Gibraltar, Alfonso XI of Castile died of the Black Death.

● 1513 - (not 1512 as often cited) - Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.

● 1536 - Swiss Protestants in Strassbourg and Constance signed the First Helvetic Confession. It became the first major document setting forth the common faith of the Swiss Protestant churches.

● 1599 - Earl of Essex sent to put down a rebellion in Ireland.

● 1599 - Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant-General of Ireland

● 1613 - First English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.

● 1625 - Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

● 1668 - English King Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company

● 1708 - English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk

● 1709 - Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)

● 1713 - Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar

● 1721 - France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid

● 1758 - Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine

● 1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marques of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

● 1790 - The shoelace invented

● 1794 - The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

● 1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.

● 1802 - Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends

● 1814 - Massacre of Tohopeka (Horseshoe Bend). Gen. Andrew Jackson overwhelms Creek Indian forces; to count the Creek dead, whites cut off their noses, piling 557 of them, and skinning bodies to tan hides for souvenirs.

● 1814 - War of 1812: In central Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

● 1834 - Andrew Jackson is censured by the U.S. Senate for his actions regarding the U.S. National Bank.

● 1836 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.

● 1836 - 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland OH)

● 1840 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'No person can be a child of God without living in secret prayer; and no community of Christians can be in a lively condition without unity in prayer.'

● 1841 - 1st US steam fire engine tested, New York NY

● 1846 - Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.

● 1848 - John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster

● 1849 - Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill

● 1851 - First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.

● 1854 - Crimean War: United Kingdom declares war on Russia.

● 1855 - Abraham Gesner patents kerosene

● 1860 - M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)

● 1861 - Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars

● 1863 - President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer

● 1865 - Siege of Spanish Fort AL: captured by Federals

● 1866 - Andrew Rankin patents the urinal

● 1866 - President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th Amendment

● 1868 - The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.

● 1868 - Birth of Maxim Gorky, Russian author and revolutionary.

● 1871 - Birth of German writer Heinrich Mann (1871-1950), Lübeck. Attacks on militarism, nationalism, and the authoritarian social structure of German society led to his exile in 1933 to the United States.

● 1873 - Major W.H. Brown's troops attack Tonto Apache camp at Turret Butte, Arizona.

● 1886 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the German-born architect who helped introduce the International Style to the United States, was born.

● 1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.

● 1892 - France - Bomb explodes, partly destroying the building where the Paris prosecutor lives.

● 1899 - The first international radio transmission between England and France was achieved by the Italian inventor G. Marconi.

● 1900 - The London Parliament passed the War Loan Act that gave 35 million pounds to the Boer War cause in South Africa.

● 1900 - The Russian army mobilized 250,000 troops for active duty.

● 1901 - Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo was captured by the U.S.

● 1904 - Mary Jarris "Mother" Jones was ordered by Colorado state authorities to leave the state. She was accused of stirring up striking coal miners.

● 1907 - French troops occupied Oudja, Morocco, as a punitive action for the murder of French Dr. Muchamp.

● 1909 - Birth in Arkansas of Wally Nelson, Massachusetts farmer and conscientious objector who has refused income tax payments for over fifty years.

● 1912 - Start of eight-month Fraser River Strike by IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) railroad construction workers, British Columbia, Canada.

● 1912 - The first cherry blossom trees were planted in Washington, DC. The trees were a gift from Japan.

● 1914 - 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)

● 1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.

● 1920 - Hermann Müller becomes German chancellor (SPD)

● 1921 - The first Southern Baptist church to be constituted in the state of Arizona was organized in Phoenix formed principally of churchmen who protested the doctrinal views held by leaders of the Northern Baptist Convention.

● 1924 - Canada recognizes USSR

● 1924 - New French government of Poincaré begins

● 1931 - Uruguay - Arrest of Miguel Arcangel Roscigna, anarchist Argentinean expropriator who, after being a wrought iron craftsman, went from anarcho-syndicalism to violent action. Sentenced to six years in prison before being delivered to the Argentinean police, who then murdered Roscigna and a colleague - the body of Roscigna has never been found.

● 1932 - Ghandi Mocked by deaths of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru.

● 1933 - Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized

● 1933 - Japan leaves League of Nations

● 1933 - Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett

● 1933 - About 55,000 people staged a protest against Hitler in New York City.

● 1938 - Battle of Tai er zhuang.

● 1940 - Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice

● 1941 - Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years

● 1941 - Tokeo Yoshikawa arrived in Oahu, HI, and began spying for Japan on the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

● 1941 - Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)

● 1941 - Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul

● 1942 - Seeing the un-workability of his plan to allow Japanese-Americans to leave the Pacific Coast of their own accord (most of the Nisei were turned back at whatever state line they happened to reach, or were attacked by hostile mobs once they did manage to find a new home.) Lt. General John DeWitt ended the voluntary policy of evacuation. Two days later, a more "practical" policy, forced evacuation and interment, officially took effect.

● 1942 - Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward

● 1942 - World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France.

● 1943 - Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau

● 1943 - US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia

● 1944 - 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp

● 1944 - 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania

● 1944 - 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo

● 1944 - Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno

● 1945 - British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine

● 1945 - General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken

● 1945 - Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed

● 1945 - US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden

● 1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.

● 1946 - Four-month long strikes at both General Electric and General Motors ended with a wage increase.

● 1946 - Members of Baptist congregations in Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks met at Anchorage to form the Alaska Southern Baptist Convention.

● 1950 - Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China

● 1951 - Iran - Mossadeq nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

● 1952 - The U.S. Eighth Army reached the 38th parallel in Korea, the original dividing line between the two Koreas.

● 1952 - Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer

● 1953 - Dashiell Hammett's novels banned from State Dept.'s overseas libraries.

● 1953 - 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut OH

● 1956 - French commandos land in Algeria

● 1956 - US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"

● 1958 - Havana Hilton opens

● 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.

● 1958 - The U.S. announced a plan to explore space near the moon.

● 1961 - Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen

● 1962 - In Louisiana, Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel ordered all Roman Catholic churches and schools in the New Orleans diocese to end segregation.

● 1963 - Dr. Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.

● 1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage. The quake is felt as far away as Seattle.

● 1964 - Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars

● 1964 - UN troops arrive on Cyprus

● 1965 - Alice Herz dies after immolating herself 11 days earlier to protest the Vietnam War.

● 1966 - Twenty thousand Buddhists in silent march for peace, Hue, South Vietnam.

● 1966 - Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia

● 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the earth, died in a plane crash.

● 1968 - Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco

● 1968 - Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia

● 1969 - The first Chicano youth conference in history is held by the Crusade for Justice. During the week-long conference, the poet known as Alurista (Alberto Baltazar Urista) presents his poem on the myth of Aztlan, which captures the imagination of the conference by defining a symbolic Chicano homeland within the borders of the United States.

● 1969 - Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston

● 1969 - Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190 miles above southern Mars

● 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1971 - SS Texaco Oklahoma breaks in half and sinks off Cape Hatteras, killing 31 of 44 aboard.

● 1972 - Soledad Brothers acquitted.

● 1972 - Venera 8 launched to Venus

● 1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC subway system is opened.

● 1977 - Tenerife disaster: Two jumbo jets collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583.

● 1979 - Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars

● 1980 - Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900 meter down (23 die)

● 1980 - Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years of just laying there.

● 1980 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

● 1980 - Silver Thursday market crash.

● 1986 - U.S. Senate approves 100 million for Nicaraguan contras while cutting domestic programs, slashing welfare programs.

● 1986 - Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer, Angela Taylor, and injuring 21 people.

● 1987 - President Habré's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad

● 1988 - Mordechai Vanunu jailed 18 years for disclosing Israeli nuclear weapons program. He was been kept incommunicado, in solitary confinement, for the next ten years.

● 1988 - Moudud Ahmed becomes Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

● 1988 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

● 1989 - Millions of Russians go to the polls; Russian voters have gone to the polls - with early indications that many Communist candidates have been rejected by the electorate.

● 1989 - The U.S. anti-missile satellite failed the first test in space.

● 1990 - Propaganda: The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba.

● 1990 - Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die

● 1992 - Police in Philadelphia, PA, arrested a man with AIDS on charges that he may have infected several hundred teenage boys with HIV through sexual relations.

● 1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.

● 1993 - Albert Zafy becomes President of Madagascar.

● 1993 - Mahamane Ousmane becomes President of Niger.

● 1994 - One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.

● 1994 - Maiden flight for future fighter jet; The troubled European Fighter Aircraft makes its inaugural flight two years later than expected.

● 1995 - Sudanese government agrees to two-month cease fire in its war with rebels in southern Sudan.

● 1995 - Maurizo Gucci was shot to death outside his office in Milan.

● 1997 - Russian workers, nearly 2 million, held a nationwide strike to protest unpaid wages.

● 1997 - In Australia, Governor-General William Deane signed a bill to overturn a 1996 Northern Territory act to legalize assisted suicides. The 1996 act was the first in the world to permit assisted suicides.

● 1997 - 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)

● 1997 - Dexter King met with James Earl Ray. Ray was in prison for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Dexter King believes that Ray had nothing to do with the assassination.

● 1998 - Five thousand demonstration in Washington, D.C., in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, and other political prisoners in the U.S.

● 1998 - In the U.S., the FDA approved the prescription drug Viagra. It was the first pill for male impotence.

● 1998 - Top civilian aircraft makers in France, Spain, Germany and Britain agreed to create single European aerospace and defense company.

● 1998 - Ax-wielders killed at least 52 people in southern Algeria, most of which were toddlers.

● 2001 - California regulators approved electricity rate hikes of up to 46 percent.

● 2002 - Comedian Milton Berle died at age 93.

● 2002 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.

● 2003 - Serbian police killed two major suspects in the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

● 2004 - HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

● 2004 - NASA successfully launched an unpiloted X-43A jet that hit Mach 7 (about 5,000 mph).

● 2006 - Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified at his federal trial that he was supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House.

● 2006 - The UN Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.

● 2134 - Predicted 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

BIRTHS

● 972 - King Robert I of France (d. 1031)

● 1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d. 1480)

● 1627 - Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)

● 1676 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (d. 1735)

● 1696 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)

● 1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (d. 1762)

● 1712 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)

● 1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)

● 1730 - Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar (d. 1786)

● 1746 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)

● 1753 - Andrew Bell, Scottish clergyman who developed popular education (d. 1832)

● 1765 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)

● 1785 - King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)

● 1797 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (d. 1863)

● 1809 - Baron Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)

● 1810 - William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)

● 1813 - Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888)

● 1817 - Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)

● 1845 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)

● 1847 - Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)

● 1851 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)

● 1857 - Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936)

● 1859 - George Giffen, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)

● 1860 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)

● 1863 - Sir Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d. 1933)

● 1868 - Patty Smith Hill, American educator (d. 1946)

● 1869 - James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)

● 1871 - Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)

● 1879 - Edward Steichen, American photographer; a leader of the Photo-Secession Group (d. 1973)

● 1879 - Miller Huggins, baseball player and manager (d. 1929)

● 1883 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)

● 1886 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)

● 1892 - Ferde Grofé, American composer (d. 1972)

● 1893 - Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)

● 1899 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)

● 1901 - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)

● 1901 - Sasaki Naojiro, Japanese author (d. 1943)

● 1901 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)

● 1901 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan (1964-72), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)

● 1901 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)

● 1902 - Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)

● 1905 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)

● 1906 - Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)

● 1909 - Golo Mann, German historian (d. 1994)

● 1909 - Ben Webster, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1973)

● 1912 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)

● 1913 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)

● 1914 - Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)

● 1914 - Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist

● 1915 - Denton Welch, English painter and novelist (d. 1948)

● 1915 - Robert Lockwood Jr., American blues guitarist (d. 2006)

● 1917 - Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002)

● 1920 - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)

● 1921 - Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)

● 1922 - Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)

● 1923 - Endo Shusaku, Japanese author (d. 1996)

● 1923 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet

● 1924 - Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)

● 1927 - Anthony Lewis, Newspaper columnist

● 1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor

● 1931 - David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)

● 1935 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer

● 1935 - Julian Glover, British actor

● 1936 - Jerry Lacy, Actor

● 1939 - Cale Yarborough, American race car driver

● 1940 - Austin Pendleton, Actor

● 1941 - Ivan Gašparovič, President of Slovakia

● 1942 - John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

● 1942 - Michael York, English actor

● 1946 - Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)

● 1947 - Brian Jones, British balloonist

● 1949 - Leigh Steinberg, American sports agent

● 1950 - Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)

● 1950 - Lynn McGlothen, baseball player (d. 1984)

● 1952 - Maria Schneider, French actress

● 1956 - Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong activist

● 1957 - Nick Hawkins, British politician

● 1959 - Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)

● 1960 - Hans Pflügler, German footballer

● 1961 - Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)

● 1961 - Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist

● 1962 - Jann Arden, Canadian musician

● 1963 - Randall Cunningham American football player

● 1963 - Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer

● 1963 - Xuxa, Brazilian television personality

● 1964 - Derrick McKenzie, Rock musician (Jamiroquai)

● 1966 - Paula Trickey, American actress

● 1967 - Talisa Soto, American actress

● 1968 - Sandra Hess, Swiss-born actress and model

● 1969 - Keith Flint, member of British group The Prodigy

● 1969 - Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer

● 1970 - Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)

● 1970 - Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler)

● 1970 - Mariah Carey, American singer

● 1970 - Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress

● 1971 - Thom Barron, German porn star

● 1971 - David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver

● 1971 - Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor

● 1972 - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer

● 1972 - Charlie Haas, professional wrestler

● 1974 - Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer

● 1974 - Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)

● 1975 - Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, American musician (Black Eyed Peas)

● 1976 - Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model

● 1981 - Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer

● 1982 - Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty queen, First runner-up Miss Universe 2006

● 1983 - Emily Ann Lloyd, Actress

● 1985 - Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel

● 1986 - Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham, American professional wrestling valet

● 1987 - Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1988 - Brenda Song, American actress

● 1995 - Taylor Atelian, American actress ("According to Jim")

DEATHS

● 1191 - Pope Clement III

● 1350 - King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)

● 1378 - Pope Gregory XI

● 1462 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)

● 1482 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I (b. 1457)

● 1555 - William Hunter, Protestant martyr

● 1572 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523)

● 1625 - King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)

● 1635 - Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)

● 1697 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)

● 1757 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)

● 1770 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (b. 1696)

● 1809 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)

● 1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)

● 1836 - James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)

● 1843 - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)

● 1849 - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)

● 1850 - Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b. 1797)

● 1864 - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)

● 1865 - Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)

● 1873 - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)

● 1875 - Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)

● 1878 - Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811)

● 1889 - John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)

● 1898 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (b. 1817)

● 1910 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835)

● 1918 - Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)

● 1923 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)

● 1924 - Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841)

● 1926 - Georges Vézina, Canadian hockey player (b. 1887)

● 1927 - Joe Start, baseball player (b. 1842)

● 1931 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)

● 1940 - Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)

● 1967 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)

● 1967 - Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)

● 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut (b. 1934)

● 1972 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)

● 1972 - M.C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)

● 1977 - A. P. Hamann, American politician

● 1977 - Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)

● 1981 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)

● 1989 - May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)

● 1989 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)

● 1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)

● 1991 - Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)

● 1992 - Easley Blackwood, American bridge player (b. 1903)

● 1993 - Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900)

● 1998 - David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)

● 1998 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)

● 2000 - Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942)

● 2002 - Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)

● 2002 - Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)

● 2002 - Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)

● 2003 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)

● 2003 - Ricardo Munguia, Salvadoran aid worker

● 2003 - Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)

● 2004 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)

● 2005 - Bob Casey, baseball announcer (b. 1925)

● 2006 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)

● 2006 - Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)

● 2006 - Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)

● 2006 - Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexander
● St. Alkeld
● St. Amator
● St. Augusta
● St. John of Egypt
● St. Lydia
● St. Matthew of Beauvais
● St. Rupert of Salzburg

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 14 (Civil Date: March 27)
● St. Benedict of Nursia, abbot.
● St. Euschemon, Bishop of Lampsacus.
● St. Theognostus, Metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow.
● St. Rostislav-Michael, prince of Kiev.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of St. Theodore ("Feodorovskaya").
● Repose of John, fool-for-Christ of Yurievits (1893).

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. John Damascene, confessor/doctor (now 12/4)

● Anglican:
● Charles H Brent, Bishop of Philippines, & of Western New York

● Angolan Victory Day.

● Osweiler in Luxembourg.

● Burma : Resistance Day

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Alaska: Seward Day (1867) - (Monday)
● US Virgin Island: Transfer Day (1917) - (Monday)


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right" Compiled by William P. Martin 2004

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