March 27
1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida.
1625 - Charles I ascended the English throne upon the death of James I.
1794 - Congress authorizes the construction of six frigates, including the Constitution ("Old Ironsides"), for the U.S. Navy.
1836 - The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirkland, Ohio.
1866 - President Andrew Johnson vetoed a civil rights bill which would later become the 14th Amendment.
1884 - The first long-distance telephone call was made, between Boston and New York.
1912 - First lady Helen Herron Taft and the wife of Japan's ambassador to the United States, Viscountess Chinda, planted the first two of 3,000 cherry trees given to the U.S. as a gift by the mayor of Tokyo.
1945 - During World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters in Paris that German defenses on the Western Front had been broken.
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became Soviet premier and first secretary of the Communist part.
1964 - A 9.2 magnitude earthquake hit 80 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska, killing 117 people and producing a 50-foot tsunami that traveled more than 8,000 miles.
1968 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the Earth in 1961, died when his MiG-15 jet crashed during a routine training flight near Moscow; he was 34.
1973 - "The Godfather" won the Academy Award for best picture of 1972, but its star, Marlon Brando, refused to accept his Oscar for best actor. Liza Minelli won best actress for "Cabaret".
1975 - Construction began on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which was completed two years later.
1977 - In aviation’s worst disaster, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off in heavy fog, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on an airport runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife.
1980 - 123 workers died when a North Sea floating oil field platform, the Alexander Kielland, capsized during a storm.
1996 - An Israeli court convicted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's confessed assassin of murder, then sentenced former law student Yigal Amir to life in prison.
1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer, to fight male impotence.
2001 - A federal judge ruled that the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy was invalid, a ruling that later would be reversed in an appeal.
2009 - President Barack Obama launched a fresh effort to defeat al-Qaeda terrorists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, ordering in 4,000 more troops.
2012 - A JetBlue Airways captain ran through the cabin of a New York-to-Los Angeles flight yelling about religion and terrorists before he was tackled and restrained by passengers.
2017 - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned so-called “sanctuary cities” they could lose federal money for refusing to cooperate with immigration authorities; city leaders vowed to intensify their fight against the promised crackdown despite the financial risks.
2019 - Facebook said it was extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism. (Clayton Osbon was charged with interference with a flight crew; he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.)
2020 - The House approved a $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package; it was immediately signed by President Donald Trump.
2021 - On the deadliest day yet in a crackdown on protests against the February coup in Myanmar, local media said security forces killed at least 114 people, including several children under 16; a U.N. human rights expert accused the junta of committing “mass murder.”
Birthdays
20 - Amelie Ziber (model)
22 - Sophie Nelisse (actress)
22 - Halle Bailey (actress/singer)
27 - Taylor Atelian (actress)
28 - Kirsten Collins (singer)
32 - Kimbra (singer)
34 - Brenda Song (actress)
34 - Jessie J (singer)
35 - Buster Posey (baseball player)
38 - Emily Ann Lloyd (actress)
46 - Tia Fuller (musician)
47 - Fergie (singer)
51 - Nathan Fillion (actor)
52 - Elizabeth Mitchell (actress)
53 - Mariah Carey (singer)
53 - Pauley Perrette (actress)
54 - Ben Koldyke (actor)
55 - Talisa Soto (actress)
59 - Quentin Tarantino (director)
60 - Vicki Gunvalson (reality star)
63 - Andrew Farriss (musician)
72 - Tony Banks (musician)
80 - Michael York (actor)
82 - Austin Pendleton (actor)
83 - Cale Yarborough (race car driver)
86 - Jerry Lacy (actor)
87 - Julian Glover (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 27
1917 - The Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast League of Canada became the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens.
1939 - Oregon won the inaugural NCAA men's basketball tournament with a 46-33 win over Ohio State in Evanston, Illinois.
1945 - Oklahoma State defeats NYU 49-44 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1951 - Kentucky defeats Kansas 68-58 to win the NCAA Tournament, the first tournament featuring a 16-team field.
1971 - UCLA defeats Villanova 68-62 to win a fifth consecutive NCAA Tournament.
1978 - Kentucky defeats Duke 94-88 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1989 - Sports Illustrated exposed Pete Rose's gambling activities, alleging that Rose bet on baseball from the Riverfront Stadium dugout using hand gestures with an associate.
1998 - A matchup between the Chicago Bulls and Atlanta Hawks at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta draws a crowd of 62,046, the largest of any game in NBA history; the Bulls won 89-74.
2007 - NFL owners voted to make instant replay a permanent officiating tool.
2017 - NFL owners approved the Oakland Raiders' move to Las Vegas on a 31-1 vote. (Miami was the lone dissenter.)
1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida.
1625 - Charles I ascended the English throne upon the death of James I.
1794 - Congress authorizes the construction of six frigates, including the Constitution ("Old Ironsides"), for the U.S. Navy.
1836 - The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirkland, Ohio.
1866 - President Andrew Johnson vetoed a civil rights bill which would later become the 14th Amendment.
1884 - The first long-distance telephone call was made, between Boston and New York.
1912 - First lady Helen Herron Taft and the wife of Japan's ambassador to the United States, Viscountess Chinda, planted the first two of 3,000 cherry trees given to the U.S. as a gift by the mayor of Tokyo.
1945 - During World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters in Paris that German defenses on the Western Front had been broken.
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became Soviet premier and first secretary of the Communist part.
1964 - A 9.2 magnitude earthquake hit 80 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska, killing 117 people and producing a 50-foot tsunami that traveled more than 8,000 miles.
1968 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the Earth in 1961, died when his MiG-15 jet crashed during a routine training flight near Moscow; he was 34.
1973 - "The Godfather" won the Academy Award for best picture of 1972, but its star, Marlon Brando, refused to accept his Oscar for best actor. Liza Minelli won best actress for "Cabaret".
1975 - Construction began on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which was completed two years later.
1977 - In aviation’s worst disaster, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off in heavy fog, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on an airport runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife.
1980 - 123 workers died when a North Sea floating oil field platform, the Alexander Kielland, capsized during a storm.
1996 - An Israeli court convicted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's confessed assassin of murder, then sentenced former law student Yigal Amir to life in prison.
1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer, to fight male impotence.
2001 - A federal judge ruled that the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy was invalid, a ruling that later would be reversed in an appeal.
2009 - President Barack Obama launched a fresh effort to defeat al-Qaeda terrorists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, ordering in 4,000 more troops.
2012 - A JetBlue Airways captain ran through the cabin of a New York-to-Los Angeles flight yelling about religion and terrorists before he was tackled and restrained by passengers.
2017 - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned so-called “sanctuary cities” they could lose federal money for refusing to cooperate with immigration authorities; city leaders vowed to intensify their fight against the promised crackdown despite the financial risks.
2019 - Facebook said it was extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism. (Clayton Osbon was charged with interference with a flight crew; he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.)
2020 - The House approved a $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package; it was immediately signed by President Donald Trump.
2021 - On the deadliest day yet in a crackdown on protests against the February coup in Myanmar, local media said security forces killed at least 114 people, including several children under 16; a U.N. human rights expert accused the junta of committing “mass murder.”
Birthdays
20 - Amelie Ziber (model)
22 - Sophie Nelisse (actress)
22 - Halle Bailey (actress/singer)
27 - Taylor Atelian (actress)
28 - Kirsten Collins (singer)
32 - Kimbra (singer)
34 - Brenda Song (actress)
34 - Jessie J (singer)
35 - Buster Posey (baseball player)
38 - Emily Ann Lloyd (actress)
46 - Tia Fuller (musician)
47 - Fergie (singer)
51 - Nathan Fillion (actor)
52 - Elizabeth Mitchell (actress)
53 - Mariah Carey (singer)
53 - Pauley Perrette (actress)
54 - Ben Koldyke (actor)
55 - Talisa Soto (actress)
59 - Quentin Tarantino (director)
60 - Vicki Gunvalson (reality star)
63 - Andrew Farriss (musician)
72 - Tony Banks (musician)
80 - Michael York (actor)
82 - Austin Pendleton (actor)
83 - Cale Yarborough (race car driver)
86 - Jerry Lacy (actor)
87 - Julian Glover (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 27
1917 - The Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast League of Canada became the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens.
1939 - Oregon won the inaugural NCAA men's basketball tournament with a 46-33 win over Ohio State in Evanston, Illinois.
1945 - Oklahoma State defeats NYU 49-44 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1951 - Kentucky defeats Kansas 68-58 to win the NCAA Tournament, the first tournament featuring a 16-team field.
1971 - UCLA defeats Villanova 68-62 to win a fifth consecutive NCAA Tournament.
1978 - Kentucky defeats Duke 94-88 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1989 - Sports Illustrated exposed Pete Rose's gambling activities, alleging that Rose bet on baseball from the Riverfront Stadium dugout using hand gestures with an associate.
1998 - A matchup between the Chicago Bulls and Atlanta Hawks at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta draws a crowd of 62,046, the largest of any game in NBA history; the Bulls won 89-74.
2007 - NFL owners voted to make instant replay a permanent officiating tool.
2017 - NFL owners approved the Oakland Raiders' move to Las Vegas on a 31-1 vote. (Miami was the lone dissenter.)
