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

Events

• 196 BC – Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
• 1306 – Robert The Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
• 1309 – Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
• 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
• 1613 – The 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.
• 1642 – The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.
• 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
• 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
• 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
• 1836 – Kirtland Temple in Ohio is dedicated in an 8 hour long service led by Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.
• 1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
• 1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
• 1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
• 1868 – The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
• 1871 – The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• 1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
• 1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phaze of the Apache Wars.
• 1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
• 1906 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• 1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
• 1918 – Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
• 1938 – The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
• 1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
• 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
• 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
• 1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
• 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
• 1963 – Beeching axe: Dr. Richard 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.
• 1969 – Mariner 7 is launched.
• 1970 – Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
• 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
• 1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
• 1977 – Tenerife disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
• 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
• 1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
• 1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
• 1992 – A stealth aircraft is bombed & Brendan Sheerin is born.
• 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
• 1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
• 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 – The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
• 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
• 1999 – An F-117 Nighthawk is shot down during the Kosovo War.
• 2000 – A Phillps Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
• 2002 – Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
• 2004 – HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• 2009 – Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails killing at least 99 people.

Births

• 972 – King Robert II 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)
• 1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
• 1784 – Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, Hungarian philologist, the founder of Tibetology (d. 1842)
• 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)
• 1869 – James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)
• 1871 – Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
• 1879 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
• 1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
• 1886 – Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
• 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)
• 1897 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (d. 1958)
• 1901 – Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
• 1901 – Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, 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 (d. 2009)
• 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 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
• 1931 – David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
• 1935 – Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
• 1935 – Julian Glover, British actor
• 1935 – Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (d. 1981)
• 1937 – Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
• 1939 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
• 1940 – Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Austin Pendleton, American 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
• 1942 – Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
• 1946 – Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
• 1947 – Brian Jones, British balloonist
• 1947 – Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
• 1950 – Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
• 1950 – Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
• 1950 – Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress
• 1952 – Richard Séguin, Quebec singer and songwriter
• 1956 – Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong activist
• 1956 – Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross-country skier
• 1957 – Nick Hawkins, British politician
• 1957 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997)
• 1959 – Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
• 1960 – Hans Pflügler, German footballer
• 1960 – Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1961 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
• 1961 – Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
• 1962 – Jann Arden, Canadian musician
• 1962 – John O'Farrell, British author and satirist
• 1963 – Charly Alberti, Argentinian musician
• 1963 – Randall Cunningham, American football player
• 1963 – Dave Koz, Smooth Jazz saxophonist
• 1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
• 1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
• 1964 – Glenn Carter, English actor and singer-songwriter
• 1966 – Paula Trickey, American actress
• 1966 – Haruto Umezawa, Japanese manga artist
• 1967 – David Bavaro, American football player
• 1967 – Talisa Soto, American actress
• 1967 – Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1968 – Sandra Hess, Swiss-born actress and model
• 1969 – Kevin Corrigan, American actor
• 1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
• 1969 – Victoria O'Keefe, British actress (d. 1990)
• 1970 – Mariah Carey, American soul/dance-pop singer
• 1970 – Brent Fitz, Canadian musician (Theory of a Deadman)
• 1970 – Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler)
• 1970 – Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
• 1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
• 1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish Formula One driver
• 1971 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
• 1972 – Charlie Haas, professional wrestler
• 1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
• 1974 – Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)
• 1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
• 1975 – Fergie, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)
• 1975 – Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
• 1975 – Chakrit Yamnam, Thai film and television actor
• 1976 – Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
• 1976 – Danny Fortson, American basketball player
• 1976 – Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
• 1977 – Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
• 1977 – Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
• 1979 – Michael Cuddyer, Minnesota Twins baseball player
• 1981 – Carey Davis, National Football League fullback
• 1981 – Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
• 1981 – Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
• 1982 – Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty queen, first runner-up Miss Universe 2006
• 1984 – Laura Critchley, British singer/song writer
• 1985 – Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
• 1985 – Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
• 1985 – Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel
• 1986 – Baby M, American custody case child
• 1986 – SoCal Val, American professional wrestling valet
• 1987 – Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Brenda Song, American actress
• 1990 – Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer
• 1992 – Brendan Sheerin
• 1995 – Taylor Atelian, American actress

Deaths

• 710 – Rupert of Salzburg
• 973 – Herman, Duke of Saxony
• 1191 – Pope Clement III (b. 1130)
• 1350 – King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
• 1378 – Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
• 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. c. 1523)
• 1625 – King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
• 1635 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat (b. 1597)
• 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)
• 1879 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia, son of Emperor Frederick III (b. 1868)
• 1889 – John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
• 1897 – Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
• 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)
• 1925 – William Bligh, Canadian MP (b. 1887)
• 1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1927 – Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
• 1931 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)
• 1934 – Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
• 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, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
• 1972 – Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
• 1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)
• 1977 – A. P. Hamann, American politician (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
• 1977 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch Aviator (b. 1927)
• 1981 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
• 1988 – Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
• 1989 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1989 – Jack Starrett, American actor and film director (b. 1936)
• 1991 – Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)
• 1991 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Easley Blackwood, American bridgeplayer (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1931)
• 1993 – Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900)
• 1996 – Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (b. 1944)
• 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 – Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian prominent actor (b. 1949)
• 2005 – Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
• 2008 – George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Jack Dreyfus, American businessman (b. 1913)

Holidays and observances

• March 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Roman Catholic observances
  • St. Alexander (Pannonian [Hungarian], soldier, martyred in 3rd century)
  • St. Amator of Guarda (Portuguese, hermit)
  • St. Ananias (Israelite, prophet of Old Testament era)
  • St. Augusta of Treviso (Italian, virgin, martyred [beheaded by her pagan father] in 5th century)
  • St. Gelasius (Irish, abbot, Archbishop of Armagh, d. 1174)
  • St. John of Lycopolis (Egyptian, hermit for 40 years, advisor to emperor, c. 395)
  • Sts. Philetus, Lydia, Macedo, Theoprepius, Amphilochius, and Chronidas (martyred c. 121)
  • St. Romulus of Nîmes (French, Benedictine abbot, c. 730)
  • Sts. Zanitas, Lazarus, Marotas, Narses, Elias, Abibos, Sembeeth, Mares, and Sabas (Persian, martyred in 344)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. ~ Aesop

• selected by Kalki

2005

Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Easter in Western Christianity, 27 March 2005)

• selected by Kalki

2006

All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower. ~ Karl Mannheim (born 27 March 1893)

• selected by Kalki

2007

History is a novel written by the people. ~ Alfred de Vigny (born 27 March 1797)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance. ~ Karl Mannheim

• proposed by Kalki

2009

There’s a good time coming, boys!
A good time coming.
We may not live to see the day,
But earth shall glisten in the ray
Of the good time coming.
Cannon-balls may aid the truth
But thought’s a weapon stronger;
We’ll win our battles by its aid,
Wait a little longer.
~ Charles Mackay ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

One can suppress an outcry, but how does one act against silence? ~ Alfred de Vigny

• 3 InvisibleSun 09:16, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 11:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
• 3 because this is amazingly true. Those who are silent are even deadlier. I love this quote. Zarbon 04:40, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

A book is a bottle thrown into the sea on which this label should be attached: catch as catch can. ~ Alfred de Vigny

• 3 InvisibleSun 09:16, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 11:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:40, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

What is intelligible in history can be formulated only with reference to problems and conceptual constructions which themselves arise in the flux of historical experience. ~ Karl Mannheim (born 27 March 1893)

• 2 Kalki 18:53, 24 March 2009 (UTC) 3 Kalki 11:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC) though still true, I now feel this is a rather weak statement, compared with others of Mannheim which I've suggested below.
• 3 InvisibleSun 08:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:40, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Today, there are too many points of view of equal value and prestige, each showing the relativity of the other, to permit us to take any one position and to regard it as impregnable and absolute. Only this socially disorganized intellectual situation makes possible the insight, hidden until now by a generally stable social structure and the practicability of certain traditional norms, that every point of view is particular to a social situation. ~ Karl Mannheim

• 3 Kalki 11:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 08:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 04:40, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step forward has not yet been taken... the general form of the total conception of ideology is being used by the analyst when he has the courage to subject not just the adversary's point of view but all points of view, including his own, to the ideological analysis. ~ Karl Mannheim

• 3 Kalki 11:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 08:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 04:40, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

It has become extremely questionable whether, in the flux of life, it is a genuinely worthwhile intellectual problem to seek to discover fixed and immutable ideas or absolutes. It is a more worthy intellectual task perhaps to learn to think dynamically and relationally rather than statically. ... When the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions. ~ Karl Mannheim

• 3 Kalki 18:53, 24 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 20:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Non-evaluative insight into history does not inevitably lead to relativism, but rather to relationism. Knowledge, as seen in the light of the total conception of ideology, is by no means an illusory experience, for ideology in its relational concept is not at all identical with illusion. Knowledge arising out of our experience in actual life situations, though not absolute, is knowledge none the less. ~ Karl Mannheim

• 3 Kalki 18:53, 24 March 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 2 although there is a systematic difference between practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge, both are existent. Zarbon 20:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
~ Charles Mackay

• 3 Zarbon 20:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

The smallest effort is not lost,
Each wavelet on the ocean tost
Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow;
Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow;
Each struggle lessens human woe.
~ Charles Mackay

• 2 Zarbon 20:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

The king can drink the best of wine—
So can I;
And has enough when he would dine—
So have I;
And can not order rain or shine—
Nor can I.
Then where’s the difference—let me see—
Betwixt my lord the king and me?
~ Charles Mackay

• 3 Zarbon 20:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 19:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. ~ James Callaghan

• 4 Zarbon 20:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 19:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC) but leaning toward 0 because Callaghan was certainly not the originator of this expression, even in this wording, though he famously did say it.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ~ James Callaghan

• 3 Zarbon 20:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent. ~ James Callaghan

• 3 Zarbon 20:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 19:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Age, if nothing else, entitles me to set the record straight before I dissolve. I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. ~ Gloria Swanson

• 3 Zarbon 20:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 19:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation. ~ Charles Mackay

• 3 Kalki 19:58, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

I did not think; I investigated. ... It seemed at first a new kind of invisible light. It was clearly something new, something unrecorded. ~ Wilhelm Röntgen

• 3 Kalki 21:11, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

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Articles detailing events that are related to March 27. This may include the release of games or systems, the founding of a video game related company or some other important event.

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Game releases

• 2007
  • Dance Dance Revolution Universe (xbox360)
  • Enchanted Arms (PS3)

• 2005
  • Civilization IV for the PC in Japan

From Familypedia

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

Events

• 1329 - Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1846 - Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
• 1851 - First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.
• 1854 - Crimean War: United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
• 1868 - ??The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego.
• 1871 - First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• 1881 - Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperence by the Salvation Army
• 1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, killing 76 and injuring 200.
• 1906 - Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg.
• 1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
• 1938 - Battle of Tai er zhuang.
• 1941 - World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
• 1942 - World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France.
• 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
• 1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
• 1948 - The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
• 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
• 1963 - Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. See Beeching axe.
• 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.
• 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Cosmonaut, first human in space dies in aircraft training accident.
• 1969 - Mariner 7 is launched.
• 1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight
• 1971 - SS Texaco Oklahoma breaks in half and sinks off Cape Hatteras, killing 31 of 44 aboard.
• 1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC Metro system is opened.
• 1977 - Tenerife disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 247 on KLM and 335 on PAN AM) and 61 survived on a PAN AM flight.
• 1980 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• 1980 - Silver Thursday market crash.
• 1984 - A new Musical, Starlight Express opens on the West End in London. Cast include Ray Shell as Rusty the Steam Engine and Stephanie Lawrence as Pearl the Observation Car.
• 1986 - Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer, Angela Taylor, and injuring 21 people.
• 1990 - The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
• 1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
• 1994 - One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
• 1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
• 1999 - Kosovo War: Army of Yugoslavia downed F117A nighthawk.
• 2002 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.
• 2004 - HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• 2006 - The UN Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
• 2007 - Michael Phelps breaks world record in 200m freestyle with time of 1:43.86 in Melbourne Australia.

Births

• 972 - King Robert II 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)
• 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)
• 1869 - James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)
• 1871 - Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
• 1879 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
• 1883 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
• 1886 - Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
• 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)
• 1897 - Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (d. 1958)
• 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, 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 - 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 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
• 1931 - David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
• 1935 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
• 1935 - Julian Glover, British actor
• 1937 - Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
• 1939 - Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
• 1940 - Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
• 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
• 1942 - Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
• 1943 - Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
• 1946 - Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
• 1947 - Brian Jones, British balloonist
• 1947 - Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
• 1950 - Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
• 1950 - Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1952 - Maria Schneider, French actress
• 1952 - Richard Séguin, Quebec singer and songwriter
• 1956 - Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong activist
• 1956 - Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross-country skier
• 1957 - Nick Hawkins, British politician
• 1957 - Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997)
• 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 - Charly Alberti, Argentinian musician
• 1963 - Randall Cunningham American football player
• 1963 - Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
• 1963 - Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
• 1964 - Glenn Carter, English actor and singer-songwriter
• 1966 - Paula Trickey, American actress
• 1967 - Paul Adams, American celebrity
• 1967 - Talisa Soto, American actress
• 1968 - Sandra Hess, Swiss-born actress and model
• 1969 - Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
• 1970 - Mariah Carey, American singer
• 1970 - Brent Fitz, Canadian Musician (Theory of a Deadman)
• 1970 - Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler)
• 1970 - Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
• 1970 - Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
• 1971 - Thom Barron, German porn star
• 1971 - David Coulthard, Scottish Formula One driver
• 1971 - Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
• 1972 - Charlie Haas, professional wrestler
• 1972 - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
• 1974 - Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)
• 1974 - Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
• 1975 - Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, American musician (Black Eyed Peas)
• 1976 - Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
• 1977 - Violet Blue, American porn star
• 1977 - Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
• 1977 - Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
• 1979 - Michael Cuddyer, Minnesota Twins baseball player
• 1981 - Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
• 1981 - Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
• 1982 - Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty queen, first runner-up Miss Universe 2006
• 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
• 1991 - Thomas Brown, successful Canadian young entrepreneur
• 1995 - Taylor Atelian, American actress
• 1997 - Princess Sara bint Al Faisal, of Jordan
• 1997 - Princess Aisha bint Al Faisal, of Jordan

Deaths

• 973 - Herman
• 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 (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)
• 1897 - Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
• 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 ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1927 - Joe Start, American 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, Soviet 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 film director (b. 1936)
• 1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)
• 1991 - Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 - Easley Blackwood, American bridgeplayer 1992 sander ovhey was born
• 1993 - Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1931)
• 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 - Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
• 2005 - Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
• 2005 - Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
• 2006 - Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
• 2006 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
• 2006 - Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
• 2006 - Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
• 2007 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

• Angolan Victory Day.
• Osweiler in Luxembourg.

Liturgical feasts

• Feast day of Rupert of Salzburg in the Roman Catholic Church.
• St. John of Egypt
• St. Augusta
• St. Lydia

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada