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Events

• 1513 (513 years ago) Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
• 1814 (212 years ago) War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• 1912 (114 years ago) First Lady Helen Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the origin of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Yugoslav Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
• 1964 (62 years ago) The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
• 1990 (36 years ago) The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí.
• 2009 (17 years ago) The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
• 2020 (6 years ago) North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.

Births

• 1845 (181 years ago) Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1923)
• 1886 (140 years ago) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect, designed IBM Plaza and Seagram Building (died 1969)
• 1899 (127 years ago) Gloria Swanson, American actress and producer (died 1983)
• 1912 (114 years ago) James Callaghan, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 2005)
• 1955 (71 years ago) Mariano Rajoy, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1963 (63 years ago) Quentin Tarantino, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
• 1969 (57 years ago) Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1986 (40 years ago) Manuel Neuer, German footballer

Deaths

• 1378 (648 years ago) Pope Gregory XI,
• 1615 (411 years ago) Margaret of Valois,
• 1625 (401 years ago) James VI and I of the United Kingdom,
• 1770 (256 years ago) Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (born 1696)
• 1968 (58 years ago) Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1934)
• 2002 (24 years ago) Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1906)
• 2006 (20 years ago) Stanisław Lem, Ukrainian-Polish author (born 1921)
• 2024 (2 years ago) Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American author, psychologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934)

All 471 events, births and deaths of March 27