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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27: World Theatre Day: -- World
Theatre Day is celebrated every year on March 27. Designated by
the International Theatre Institute (ITI) in 1961, this day
celebrates the essence, beauty, and importance of theatre arts,
their significant role in entertainment, and the symbolic impact
that theatre has on life. This day also serves to inform
governments, politicians, institutions, and stakeholders around
the world who have not yet realized the value of theatre to the
people and its potential for economic growth. Since ancient
Greece, theatre has been a popular form of art and entertainment -
thrilling its audiences and leaving them in awe. Not only does it
entertain and educate, but theatre also combines various art forms
to give its live audience a real stage experience, which they
can't find anywhere else. World Theatre Day is celebrated annually
on March 27, promoted by the ITI through its centers, and
supported by theatre communities all over the world. The day was
initiated by ITI, following President Arvi Kivimaa's June 1961
proposal at the ninth World Congress of the ITI in Vienna - on
behalf of the ITI's Finnish Centre - for a World Theatre Day to be
instituted. The proposal was supported by the Scandinavian centers
of the ITI and publicized with enthusiasm. The next year - on
March 27, 1962, World Theatre Day was celebrated by ITI centers,
ITI Cooperating Members, theatre professionals, and theatre
organizations. Today, the day is celebrated in the 90+ ITI centers
throughout the world, with theatre universities, academies,
schools, and theatre lovers all around the globe joining in the
day's observance. Different events are organized to mark World
Theatre Day every year. A prominent feature of these annual events
is the World Theatre Day International Message, presented by a
famous art figure, reflecting on the history of theatre and a
culture of peace in today's world. The first World Theatre Day
International Message was written by French poet and playwright
Jean Cocteau in 1962. In 2021, the Message of the World Theatre
Day was authored by Helen Mirren, a multi-award-winning British
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27: Sarah Vaughan Day: -- March 27,
1924: #BOTD: #HBD! Sarah Vaughan, African American jazz singer (d.
April 3, 1990) is #born Sarah Lois Vaughan in Newark, New Jersey.
She has been described by music critic Scott Yanow as having "one
of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century." Nicknamed
"Sassy" and "The Divine One", Vaughan was a
four-time Grammy Award winner, including a "Lifetime
Achievement Award". The National Endowment for the Arts
bestowed upon her its "highest honor in jazz", the NEA
Jazz Masters Award, in 1989. Sarah Vaughan died watching the movie
Laker Girls, a television movie featuring her daughter. Her
funeral was held at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Newark, New
Jersey. Following the ceremony, a horse-drawn carriage transported
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27: National Joe Day: -- A day that
encourages everyone to enjoy a cup of joe with all your friends
named Joe, Jo, Joey, Joseph, and Josephine. While you're at it,
don't forget Joette, Jody, Johanna, Jodie, or any other variant of
the name Joe. If you didn't know it, you could create quite a few
nicknames from this one name. According to the Social Security
Administration, Joseph ranked No. 6 from 1893 to 1899 behind John,
William, James, George, and Charles. In 1910, it moved to No. 5.
From 1911 to 2005, it ranked No. 12 or lower. Famous Joes, Jos,
and Jo Anns, populate the world. They fill many roles, too. So
their name does not define them. Just check out the variety of
hats they wear! The origin of this day is unknown, but we know
that the name Joe or Jo refers to an everyday name. Deriving from
this is phrases like ''Lucky Joe'', or ''Average Joe.'' Weirdly,
it can also refer to a steaming hot cup of coffee. The phrase
''cup of Joe'' became popular around 1940. Since then, the phrase
stuck and became known as the name for the everyday activity of
coffee drinking. The meaning of the name Joseph is ''God will
increase''. The name also derives from ''Yosef'' which is a Hebrew
name meaning ''He will add.'' In the Bible, Joseph is an important
figure. In the Old Testament, he was the Son of Jacob and Rachel
who was exiled to Egypt and who soon became an advisor to the
Pharaoh. In the New Testament, the most well-known Joseph was
Mary's husband Joseph the carpenter, and there was also mention of
a Joseph of Arimathea who was a rich disciple. In the middle ages,
Joseph was a very common name used by the Jews and Christians and
today the name is widely used and loved in many different
cultures. Joe ranked among the top 20 most popular names every
year throughout the 20th century and it doesn't look like it will
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1309: Christianity: Roman
Catholicism: The Latin Church (Latin: Ecclesia Latina):
Excommunication: Interdiction: The Excommunication And
Interdiction Of Venice: -- Pope Clement V imposes excommunication
and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all
commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a
papal fiefdom. Ferrara, then as now a comune (municipality) in
Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, was taken into the Papal states
(to the exclusion of the land holdings of its rulers, The House Of
Este, which was to become the capital city of Ferrara), papal
armies clashed with Venice and their populace. When
excommunication and interdict failed to have their intended
effect, Clement V, best known for the demise of the order of the
Knights Templar and for moving the Papacy from Rome to Avignon
(The Avignon Papacy), preached a crusade against the Venetians in
May 1309, declaring that Venetians captured abroad might be sold
into slavery, like non-Christians. Finally, Clement's legate,
Cardinal Pelagrue, overthrew the Venetians in a battle fought on
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1625: The English Monarchy (The
Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of England): Royal Accessions: Successions
To The English, Scottish And Irish Thrones: -- Charles I becomes
King of England, Scotland and Ireland, as well as claiming the
title King of France. Twenty four years later, at the conclusion
of the English Civil War, he was brought before a high court of
justice at Westminster Hall on charges of treason. He maintained
the Divine Right of kings to rule and opposed the Parliament Of
England' challenges to his authoritarian style. This resulted in
the English Civil War (1642-1651). The Civil War had been fought
over whether the King' power was absolute, or was limited by the
powers of Parliament. Oliver Cromwell had led the Parliamentary
forces to victory over the Royals. In the trial that followed,
Charles was found guilty and condemned as "a tyrant, traitor,
murderer, and public enemy" and was beheaded ten days later
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1794: Naval History: The
History Of The United States Navy: The Old United States Navy (The
Old Navy, United States Navy 1775-1885): The Naval Act Of 1794: --
The United States Government establishes the United States Navy
(USN), founding it as a permanent navy, and authorizes the
building of six frigates: the USS United States, USS
Constellation, USS Constitution, USS Chesapeake, USS Congress and
USS President. The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare
service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the
eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest
and most capable navy in the world and it has been estimated that
in terms of tonnage of its active battle fleet alone, it is larger
than the next 13 navies combined, which includes 11 U.S. allies or
partner nations. It has the highest combined battle fleet tonnage
and the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with eleven in
service, two new carriers under construction, and five other
carriers planned. With 336,978 personnel on active duty and
101,583 in the Ready Reserve, the U.S. Navy is the third largest
of the U.S. military service branches in terms of personnel. It
has 290 deployable combat vessels and more than 3,700 operational
aircraft as of June 2019, making it the third-largest air force in
the world, after the United States Air Force and the United States
Army. The U.S. Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy,
which was established during the American Revolutionary War and
was effectively disbanded as a separate entity shortly thereafter.
After suffering significant loss of goods and personnel at the
hands of the Barbary pirates from Algiers, the U.S. Congress
passed the Naval Act of 1794 for the construction of six heavy
frigates, the first ships of the U.S. Navy. Due to his strong
posture on having a strong standing Navy during this period, John
Adams is "often called the father of the American Navy".
The U.S. Navy played a major role in the American Civil War by
blockading the Confederacy and seizing control of its rivers. It
played the central role in the World War II defeat of Imperial
Japan. The U.S. Navy emerged from World War II as the most
powerful navy in the world. The 21st century U.S. Navy maintains a
sizable global presence, deploying in strength in such areas as
the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. It
is a blue-water navy with the ability to project force onto the
littoral regions of the world, engage in forward deployments
during peacetime and rapidly respond to regional crises, making it
a frequent actor in U.S. foreign and military policy. The Navy is
administratively managed by the Department of the Navy, which is
headed by the civilian Secretary of the Navy. The Department of
the Navy is itself a division of the Department of Defense, which
is headed by the Secretary Of Defense. The Chief of Naval
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1845: #BOTD: #HBD! Wilhelm
Rontgen (Anglicized: Roentgen), German mechanical engineer,
physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. February 10,
1923) is #born Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen in Lennep, Prussia, German
Confederation. He produced, detected and discovered X-rays
(electromagnetic rays) at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany
on November 8, 1895. The following December 28, Roentgen published
a paper detailing his discovery. This achievement earned him the
first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In honour of his
accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and
Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium, a
radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him.
The unit of measurement roentgen was also named after him. Wilhelm
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1886: The American Indian Wars
(The American Frontier Wars, The Indian Wars): The Apache Wars:
The Geronimo Campaign: The Surrender Of Geronimo: -- Geronimo,
Apache warrior chief and medicine man, ends the main phase of the
Apache Wars when he surrenders to U.S. Army Department Of Arizona
General George Crook (Apache nickname: Nantan Lupan, "Grey
Wolf"), his third and final surrender to the U.S. Army, at
the Canon De Los Embudos (Canyon Of The Funnels) in the Sierra
Madre Mountains about 86 miles (138 km) from Fort Bowie at Apache
Pass, Arizona and about 20 miles (32 km) south of the
international border, near the Sonora/Chihuahua border. Geronimo
and 27 other Apaches were later sent to join the rest of the
Chiricahua tribe, which had been previously exiled to Florida.
While holding him as a prisoner, the United States capitalized on
Geronimo's fame among non-Indians by displaying him at various
fairs and exhibitions. In 1898, for example, Geronimo was
exhibited at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska;
seven years later, the Indian Office provided Geronimo for use in
a parade at the second inauguration of President Theodore
Roosevelt. He died at the Fort Sill hospital in 1909, as a
prisoner of war, and was buried at the Fort Sill Indian Agency
Cemetery, among the graves of relatives and other Apache prisoners
of war. On June 16, 1829, Geronimo, whose name means "the one
who yawns", American tribal leader (d. February 17, 1909) was
born. He was a prominent leader and medicine man from the
Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe. From 1850 to 1886
Geronimo lead numerous raids upon and resistance to US and Mexican
military campaigns in northern Mexico and in New Mexico and
Arizona. Geronimo' combat actions were part of the prolonged
period of the Apache-United States conflict following the end of
the Mexican-American War in 1848. During his final period of
conflict from 1876 to 1886 he "surrendered" three times
and accepted life on the Apache reservations in Arizona. In his
old age, Geronimo became a celebrity. He appeared at fairs,
including the 1904 World' Fair in St. Louis, where he rode a
ferris wheel, sold souvenirs and photographs of himself. He died
at the Fort Sill hospital in 1909, still a prisoner of war. US
Paratroopers beginning in 1940 famously began using the cry
"Geronimo" when jumping from a plane, and in some Warner
Brothers cartoons, paratroopers are shown not only yelling
"Geronimo" when they jump, but also show them in a
hand-over-mouth position used in cartoons to depict yawning, a
reference to Geronimo's name "the one who yawns". On
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March 27, 1886: #BOTD: Sergei Kirov,
Soviet Politburo member, early Bolshevik revolutionary, member of
the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour
Party (d. December 1, 1934). born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov in
Urzhum in Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire (modern Urzhum,
Russia). Sergei Mironovich Kirov became an Old Bolshevik and
personal friend to Joseph Stalin, rising through the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union ranks to become head of the party in
Leningrad and a member of the Politburo. The Leningrad office of
the NKVD, headed by Kirov's close friend, Filipp Medved, looked
after Kirov's security. Stalin allegedly ordered Genrikh Yagoda,
the NKVD Commissar, to replace Medved with Grigory Yeremeyevich
Yevdokimov, a close associate of Stalin. However, Kirov
intervened, and had the order countermanded. As a result,
according to Alexander Orlov, an anti-soviet defector to the
United States, Stalin then ordered Yagoda to arrange the
assassination of Kirov. Yagoda ordered Medved's deputy, Vania
Zaporozhets, to undertake the job. Zaporozhets returned to
Leningrad in search of an assassin; in reviewing the files he
found the name of Leonid Nikolayev. Nevetheless, according to
other soviet defector, Grigori Tokaev, a real oppositionist
underground group had assassinated Kirov. Leonid Nikolaev, the
former first secretary of the Leningrad branch of the Communist
Party, was reputed to have assassinated outside of Kirov's offices
in the Smolny Institute, out of a rumored suspicion that he was
having an affair with Nikolaev's wife, Milda Draule, who worked at
the Smolny Institute and was rumored to have spent a weekend with
him. It is unknown whether these rumors had a basis in fact, or
were deliberately fostered by the NKVD. According to Amy Knight,
Nikolaev's wife, Milda Draule, was noted for her physical
plainness, while Kirov was known to prefer liaisons with
ballerinas and other Soviet women of notable beauty and grace.
Whatever the motivation for the assassination was, Nikolaev and
several suspected accomplices were convicted in a show trial and
executed less than 30 days later. Kirov's death was later used as
a pretext for Stalin's escalation of political repression in the
Soviet Union and the events of the Great Purge, with complicity as
a common charge for the condemned in the Moscow Trials. Kirov's
assassination is highly controversial, and there is widespread
belief in the complicity of Stalin and the NKVD in permitting the
conditions that allowed Kirov to be assassinated. Leonid
Vasilevich Nikolaev was a troubled young Soviet Communist Party
member in Leningrad. He was a small, thin man, about five feet
tall; even as an adult he showed the effects of childhood rickets
and malnutrition. He had difficulty holding a job, and had been
reprimanded by the Party for having refused a posting that was not
to his liking. Eventually, the Party expelled him as a member.
Unemployed, he soon ran short of money, and blamed the Party for
his troubles. His wife Milda Draule was a member of a regional
party committee, and he had a strong suspicion that she had a love
affair with Sergei Kirov, the Party administrator of the Leningrad
district. As Nikolaev's troubles grew, he became steadily more
obsessed with the idea of "striking a blow." On October
15, 1934, he was arrested by the NKVD, allegedly for loitering
around the Smolny Institute, where Kirov had his offices. The
Smolny guards had discovered a loaded 7.62 mm Nagant M1895
revolver in Nikolaev's briefcase; some Soviet sources later argued
that Nikolaev did have a permit to carry a loaded handgun. After
Nikolaev's visit, the NKVD failed to augment Kirov's security;
instead, it withdrew all police protection for Kirov with the
exception of a police escort to Smolny and a manned security post
at the entrance to his offices. On the afternoon of December 1,
1934, Nikolaev paid a final visit to the Smolny Institute offices.
With Stalin's alleged approval, the NKVD had previously withdrawn
the remaining guards manning the security desk at Smolny.
Unopposed, Nikolaev made his way to the third floor, where he shot
Kirov in the back of the neck with his Nagant revolver. As former
Soviet official and author Alexander Barmine noted, "the
negligence of the NKVD in protecting such a high party official
was without precedent in the Soviet Union". He is buried at
The Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow. After Kirov's death, Stalin
called for swift punishment of the traitors and those found
negligent in Kirov's death. Borisov, one of the first to come upon
the scene, was immediately arrested; he died the day after Kirov's
assassination, allegedly as the result of a fall from a truck in
which he was being transported by the NKVD. On December 28-29,
1934, Nikolaev and 13 other people as members of the
"counterrevolutionary group" were tried by the Military
Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR under Vasili Ulrikh's
chairmanship. At 5:45 AM on December 29, all of them were
sentenced to death and executed by shooting an hour later. For
Kirov's murder, a total of 117 people were arrested and killed,
including Nikolaev's 85-year-old mother, his brother, sisters, and
cousin. Milda Draule survived her husband by three months before
being executed herself. Their infant son (who was named Marx
following the Bolshevik naming fashion) was sent into an
orphanage. Marx Draule was alive in 2005 when he was officially
rehabilitated as a victim of political repressions, and Milda was
also found innocent retroactively. However, Nikolaev was never
posthumously acquitted. Several NKVD officers from the Leningrad
branch were convicted of negligence for not adequately protecting
Kirov, and were sentenced to prison terms of up to ten years.
However, Barmine claimed they never served their prison sentences;
instead, they were transferred to executive posts in Stalin's
labour camps for a period of time (in effect, a demotion).
Initially, a Communist Party communique reported that Nikolaev's
guilt had been established, and that he had confessed that he
acted at the behest of a 'fascist power', receiving money from an
unidentified 'foreign consul' in Leningrad. Barmine further
claimed 104 other defendants, who were already in prison at the
time of Kirov's assassination, and who had no demonstrable
connection to Nikolaev, were found guilty of complicity in the
'fascist plot' against Kirov, and were summarily executed.
However, a few days later, during a subsequent Communist Party
meeting of the Moscow District, the Party secretary announced in a
speech that Nikolaev had been personally interrogated by Stalin
the very next day after the assassination, an unheard-of event for
a party leader such as Stalin:"Comrade Stalin personally
directed the investigation of Kirov's assassination. He questioned
Nikolaev at length. The leaders of the Opposition placed the gun
in Nikolaev's hand!" Other speakers rose to condemn the
Opposition: "The Central Committee must be pitiless - the
Party must be purged..the record of every member must be
scrutinized..." No one at the meeting mentioned the theory of
fascist agents. Kirov's death meant the beginning of Stalin's
Great Purge. As author and Menshevik scholar Boris Nikolaevsky
pointed out, "One thing is certain: the only man who profited
by the Kirov assassination was Stalin." Indeed, Stalin ater
even used the Kirov assassination to eliminate the remainder of
the Opposition leadership against him, accusing Grigory Zinoviev,
Lev Kamenev, Abram Prigozhin and others who had stood with Kirov
in opposing Stalin (or simply failed to acquiesce to Stalin's
views), of having connections with Nikolaev and facilitating the
assassination. The Great Purge or the Great Terror, also known as
the Year of '37 and the Yezhovschina ("Period Of Yezhov',
names for Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD Soviet secret police
during the height of the Great Purge), was a campaign of political
repression in the Soviet Union that occurred from 1936 to 1938. It
involved a large-scale repression of relatively wealthy peasants
(kulaks); genocidal acts against ethnic minorities; a purge of the
Communist Party, government officials, and the Red Army
leadership; widespread police surveillance; suspicion of
saboteurs; counter-revolutionaries; imprisonment; and arbitrary
executions. Historians estimate the total number of deaths due to
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1899: #BOTD: #HBD! Gloria
Swanson, American actress and producer (d. April 4, 1983) is #born
Gloria May Josephine Swanson in Chicago and raised in a military
family. She is best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a
reclusive silent film star, in the critically acclaimed 1950 film
Sunset Boulevard. Swanson was also a top star in the silent film
era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the
direction of Cecil B. DeMille. She starred in dozens of silent
films and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the Best
Actress category. She also produced her own films, including Sadie
Thompson and The Love of Sunya. In 1929, Swanson transitioned to
talkies with The Trespasser. Personal problems and changing tastes
saw her popularity wane during the 1930s when she moved into
theater, and later television. Gloria Swanson died of
cardio-vascular disease at the New York Hospital, aged 84. She was
cremated and her ashes interred at the Episcopal Church Of The
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March 27, 1906: #BOTD: #HBD! Pee Wee
Russell, American jazz clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer
(d. February 15, 1969) is #born Charles Ellsworth Russell in
Maplewood, Missouri. As a child, he first studied violin, but
"couldn't get along with it", then piano, disliking the
scales and chord exercises, and then drums - including all the
associated special effects. Then his father sneaked young
Ellsworth into a dance at the local Elks Club to a four- or
five-piece band led by New Orleans jazz clarinetist Alcide
"Yellow" Nunez. Russell was amazed by Nunez's
improvisations: "[He] played the melody, then got hot and
played jazz. That was something. How did he know where he was or
where he was going?" Pee Wee now decided that his primary
instrument would be the clarinet, and the type of music he would
play would be jazz. Accordingly, he played clarinet and saxophones
early in his career, but he eventually focused solely on clarinet.
With a highly individualistic and spontaneous clarinet style that
"defied classification", Russell began his career
playing Dixieland jazz, but throughout his career incorporated
elements of newer developments such as swing, bebop and free jazz.
In the words of the poet Philip Larkin, "No one familiar with
the characteristic excitement of his solos, their lurid,
snuffling, asthmatic voicelessness, notes leant on till they
split, and sudden passionate intensities, could deny the
uniqueness of his contribution to jazz." His last gig was
with promoter/pianest George Wein at the inaugural ball for
President Richard Nixon on January 21, 1969. Russell died in a
hospital of chronic pancreatitis and cirrhosis of the liver in
Alexandria, Virginia, less than three weeks later, aged 62. He is
buried at B'Nai Abraham Memorial Park in Union, Union County, New
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March 27, 1912: #BOTD: #HBD! James
Callaghan, often known as Jim Callaghan, English lieutenant and
politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979
and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980 (d. March 26,
2005) is #born Leonard James Callaghan at 38 Funtington Road,
Copnor, Portsmouth, England. His father James had an Irish
Catholic father and a Jewish mother; and married an English
Baptist, Charlotte Cundy. Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan
Of Cardiff, KG, PC is to date the only politician in history to
have served in all four of the British "Great Offices of
State", having been Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to
1967, Home Secretary from 1967 to 1970, and Foreign Secretary from
1974, until his appointment as Prime Minister in 1976. As Prime
Minister, he had some successes, but was chiefly remembered for
the "Winter of Discontent" in 1978-79. During a very
cold winter, his battle with trade unions led to massive strikes
that seriously inconvenienced the public, leading to his defeat in
the polls by Margaret Thatcher. James Callaghan died as Britain's
longest-lived former prime minister, having surpassed Harold
Macmillan's record 39 days earlier, some 4 months before former
Prime Minister Edward Heath, and the day before Gallaghan's 93rd
birthday, at his home in Ringmer, East Sussex, England of lobar
pneumonia, cardiac failure and kidney failure. He died just 11
days after his wife of 67 years, who had spent the last four years
of her life in a nursing home due to Alzheimer's disease. Lord
Callaghan was cremated, and his ashes were scattered in a
flowerbed around the base of the Peter Pan statue near the
entrance of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, where his wife
had formerly been chair of the board of governors. His Order of
the Garter Banner was transferred from St George's Chapel, Windsor
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1921: #BOTD: #HBD! Harold
Nicholas, African American dancer specializing in tap, the younger
half of the tap-dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers, two of the
world's greatest dancers (d. July 3, 2000) is #born Harold Lloyd
Nicholas in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Harold along with his
brother Fayard Nicholas grew up primarily in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He learned to dance while watching vaudeville shows
with his brother while their musician parents played in the
orchestra. His father, Ulysses D. Nicholas, was a drummer and his
mother, Viola Harden Nicholas, was a pianist. In 1932, when Harold
was only 11 and his brother Fayard was 18, they became the
featured act at Cotton Club in New York City. The brothers earned
fame with a unique style of rhythm tap that blended masterful jazz
steps with daredevil athletic moves and an elegance of motion
worthy of ballet. They appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies on
Broadway and in London they worked with jazz choreographer Buddy
Bradley. The performances led them to a career in film. Nicholas
appeared in over 60 films, including the MGM musicals An
All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), Stormy Weather (1943) with
their signature staircase dance, The Pirate (1948), and Hard Four
(2007). The Nicholas brothers also starred in the 20th Century-Fox
musicals Down Argentine Way (1940), Sun Valley Serenade (1941),
and Orchestra Wives (1942). Fred Astaire told the brothers that
their dazzling footwork, leaps and splits in the Jumpin' Jive
dance in Stormy Weather (1943) produced the greatest movie musical
number he had ever seen. In the number, the brothers dance on a
piano and leap over performing musicians. Their last film together
was 1948's The Pirate, in which Gene Kelly danced with them,
breaking the color barrier. Harold went on to work as a solo
artist, moving to France and touring as a singer and dancer. He
appeared in the French film L'Empire De La Nuit. Harold returned
to America occasionally to do shows with his brother. Harold also
appeared in the films Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Tap (1989),
The Five Heartbeats (1991) and Funny Bones (1995). Carnegie Hall
sold out for a tribute to him and his brother in 1998, who were
both present. By that time he had been living on New York's Upper
West Side, where he lived for approximately 20 years with his
third wife Rigmor Alfredsson Newman, a producer. Harold Nicholas
died in New York City at the age of 79 from heart failure. He is
buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York. Nicholas was
inducted into the National Museum of Dance C.V. Whitney Hall of
Fame in 2001, along with his brother Fayard Nicholas.
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1943: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II):
The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The American Theater Of
World War II (The Americas Theater Of World War II): The Aleutian
Islands Campaign (The Alaksa Campaign) (Japanese: Aryushan Homen
No Tatakai, "The Battle Of The Aleutians"): The Battle
Of The Komandorski Islands: -- In a naval battle between American
and Imperial Japanese forces which took place in the North Pacific
some 100 miles south of the Soviet Komandorski Islands and 180
miles west of Attu Island, United States Navy forces intercept
Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska Island in the
Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands just to the west of the
International Date Line. Because of the remote location of the
battle and chance encounter on open ocean, neither fleet had air
or submarine assistance, making this one of the few engagements
exclusively between surface ships in the Pacific Theater and one
of the last pure gunnery duels between fleets of major surface
combatants in naval history. The battle was a daylight surface
engagement in which the inferior American force escaped complete
destruction mostly by luck. Although the Japanese cruisers heavily
outgunned the American force, the engagement was tactically
inconclusive; with the Japanese fleet on the edge of victory, Vice
Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya, commander of the Japanese fleet, not
realizing the heavy damage his ships had inflicted, and fearing
American war planes would appear, retired without destroying his
enemy. This amounted to a strategic defeat; both fleets suffered
damage, and the U.S. Navy warships executed an unlikely escape.
Thebattle ended Japanese attempts to resupply the Aleutian
garrisons by surface ship, leaving only submarines to conduct
supply runs. As a result of his failure to defeat the American
force, Hosogaya was accordingly retired from active service after
the battle and assigned to govern a group of South Pacific
islands. The U.S. fleet, under the command of Rear Admiral Charles
McMorris, consisted of the heavy cruiser Salt Lake City, the light
cruiser Richmond and the destroyers Coghlan, Bailey, Dale and
Monaghan. It was sent when the United States became aware of
Japanese plans to send a supply convoy to their forces on the
Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and the fleet with tasked with
preventing this. American intelligence estimated that the Japanese
escort consisted of one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, and four
destroyers. However, the Japanese 5th Fleet had been reinforced by
two more cruisers, so that the Japanese escort force actually
consisted of the heavy cruisers Nachi and Maya, the light cruisers
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1964: Natural Disasters:
Natural Disasters In The United States: Earthquakes (Quakes,
Tremors, Temblors): The 1964 Alaskan Earthquake (The Great Alaskan
Earthquake, The Good Friday Earthquake): -- The most powerful
earthquake in North American history and the second most powerful
earthquake recorded in world history occurs with a magnitude of
9.2 megathrust at 5:36 pm Alaska Standard Time (AKST) across
south-central Alaska, caused about 131 deaths, ground fissures,
collapsing structures and tsunamis and inflicting massive damage
to the city of Anchorage. The 1964 Alaskan Earthquake, also known
as the Great Alaskan Earthquake and Good Friday Earthquake, causes
ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis across
south-central Alaska, resulting in about 131 deaths. Lasting four
minutes and thirty-eight seconds, some six hundred miles (970 km)
of fault ruptured at once and moved up to 60 ft (18 m), releasing
about 500 years of stress buildup. Soil liquefaction, fissures,
landslides, and other ground failures caused major structural
damage in several communities and much damage to property.
Anchorage sustained great destruction or damage to many
inadequately earthquake-engineered houses, buildings, and
infrastructure (paved streets, sidewalks, water and sewer mains,
electrical systems, and other man-made equipment), particularly in
the several landslide zones along Knik Arm. Two hundred miles (320
km) southwest, some areas near Kodiak were permanently raised by
30 feet (9 m). Southeast of Anchorage, areas around the head of
Turnagain Arm near Girdwood and Portage dropped as much as 8 feet
(2.4 m), requiring reconstruction and fill to raise the Seward
Highway above the new high tide mark. In Prince William Sound,
Port Valdez suffered a massive underwater landslide, resulting in
the deaths of 32 people between the collapse of the Valdez city
harbor and docks, and inside the ship that was docked there at the
time. Nearby, a 27-foot (8.2 m) tsunami destroyed the village of
Chenega, killing 23 of the 68 people who lived there; survivors
out-ran the wave, climbing to high ground. Post-quake tsunamis
severely affected Whittier, Seward, Kodiak, and other Alaskan
communities, as well as people and property in British Columbia,
Washington, Oregon, and California. Tsunamis also caused damage in
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1981: Eastern Block Non-Violent
Revolutions: The Labor Union Movement In Poland: Solidarity
(Polish Trade Union) (Independent Self-Governing Trade Union
Solidarity, Solidarnosc): The Polish Crisis Of 1980-1981: The
Bydgoszcz Events (Polish: Wypadki Bydgoskie)(The Bydgoszcz Crisis
(Polish: Kryzys Bydgoski), The Bydgoszcz Provocation): The 1981
Warning Strike In Poland: -- The quickly growing Solidarity
movement faced one of the biggest challenges in its short history,
when during the Bydgoszcz events, several members of Solidarity,
including Jan Rulewski, Mariusz Labentowicz and Roman Bartoszcze,
were brutally beaten up by the security services, such as Milicja
Obywatelska and ZOMO. The Bydgoszcz Events soon became widely
known across Poland, and on March 24, 1981, Solidarity decided to
go on a nationwide strike in protest against the violence. The
strike was planned for Tuesday, March 31, 1981. On March 25, Lech
Walesa met Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski of the Polish
United Workers' Party, but their talks were fruitless. Two days
later, a four-hour national warning strike took place. It was the
biggest strike in the history of the Soviet Bloc and in the
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1993: China: The History Of
China: The People's Republic of China (PRC): The Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) (The Communist Party of China (CPC)): General
Secretaries Of The Chinese Communist Party: Paramount Leaders: --
Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic Of
China. Jiang Zemin, Chinese engineer and politician, former
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to
2002, 5th President of China from 1993 to 2003 (August 17, 1926 -
November 30, 2022) ws born Zemin Jiang in Yangzhou, Jiangsu,
Kiangtu County, Kiangsu, Republic Of China. Jiang has been
described as the "core of the third generation" of
Communist Party leaders since 1989. Jiang came to power
unexpectedly as a compromise candidate following the Tiananmen
Square protests of 1989, when he replaced Zhao Ziyang as General
Secretary after Zhao was ousted for his support for the student
movement. With the waning influence of Eight Elders due to old age
and with the death of Deng Xiaoping in 1997, Jiang consolidated
his hold on power and became the "paramount leader" of
the party and the country in the 1990s. Urged by Deng's Southern
Tour in 1992 to accelerate "opening up and reform",
Jiang officially introduced the term "socialist market
economy" in his speech during the 14th National Congress of
the Communist Party of China held later that year, ending a period
of ideological uncertainty and economic stagnation following 1989.
Under Jiang's leadership, China experienced substantial economic
growth with the continuation of reforms, saw the peaceful return
of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom in 1997 and Macau from
Portugal in 1999 and improved its relations with the outside world
while the Communist Party maintained its tight control over the
government. His contributions to party doctrine, known as the
"Three Represents," were written into the party's
constitution in 2002. Jiang vacated the post of party General
Secretary and Politburo Standing Committee in 2002, but did not
relinquish all of his leadership titles until 2005, and continued
to influence affairs until much later. Jiang is the longest-living
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27, 1999: The Aftermath Of The Cold
War: The Post-Cold War Era: The Breakup Of Yugoslavia: The
Yugoslav Wars: The Kosovo War: The 1999 F-117A Shootdown: -- An
American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk, callsign "Vega-31",
is shot down by a S-125 Neva/Pechora surface-to-air missile (SAM)
shot by a Yugoslav army unit, the first and only stealth aircraft
to be lost in combat. The pilot ejected safely and was rescued by
allied search and rescue forces. The F-117, which entered service
with the U.S Air Force in 1983, was widely seen as one of the most
advanced pieces of U.S. military equipment. At the same time,
Yugoslav air defenses were considered relatively obsolete. Lt.
Colonel Zoltan Dani, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 250th
Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Army of Yugoslavia that was
responsible for the shootdown, who as of 2020 runs a bakery, and
Lt. Colonel Darrell Patrick "Dale" Zelko, the pilot of
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Today, March 27, 2026
March 27: Quirky Country Music Song
Titles Day: -- Established to recognize the unique titles of the
songs that are available. There are numerous quirky country music
song titles available; therefore, a special day in the calendar
was established to honor them. While the lyrics to country music
may be humorous, it's not always obvious from the titles. But
today is all about those titles that make you pause and laugh as
well as wonder what was going through the singer's head when they
named the song. In the 1920s, a hybrid of Appalachian folk and
blues gained national prominence. It was largely upbeat tracks for
barn dances and heartfelt ballads. By the 1940s, audiences flocked
to see singing cowboys like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. Country
music grew up among working-class Americans in the south,
particularly in the Appalachian Mountains. Generations of
musicians have infused English ballads with Celtic and Irish
fiddle tunes, as well as other European influences. The
African-American influence was often neglected. Many white
musicians learned their profession from black teachers. The banjo
was brought to America by slaves who taught their children how to
pick. While many musical styles impacted country music, its roots
can be traced back to eastern Tennessee. In the 1920s, studios in
Bristol, Johnson City, and Knoxville began recording the unique
sounds of mountaineer artists from the Great Smoky Mountains. The
music of former Appalachian people who had relocated to Atlanta to
work in its cotton mills pumped through the city's robust music
culture. They dreaded the "hillbilly music" that they
left behind. Promoters could now commercialize country music.
Country music became an acknowledged genre when a promoter
"discovered" Fiddlin' John Carson. Early A.M. radio
stations began playing the distinct regional music on "barn
dance" programming in the 1930s introducing new fans to
country music. Until the 1980s, rural A.M. radio played mostly
country music. Country music had a vast musical heritage. It
increased in popularity to encompass western swing, honky tonk,
country boogie, and rockabilly. Regular boundary-crossing
encouraged audiences to define country music broadly. Several
renowned groups released hundreds of songs in many genres.
Instrumentation and style set country music apart from other
genres. Banjos, acoustic and electric guitars, dobros, fiddles,
and harmonicas all accompanied simple harmonies rhythmically.
Initially, country musicians disliked drums for being too
aggressive and noisy. But by the mid-1930s, western swing
performers were adding drums. Most country music groups had a
drummer by the 1950s. By the 1950s, new political and musical
genres were on the horizon. Rock n' roll influenced country music,
inspiring some performers to create rockabilly. In response to
social and political unrest, progressive artists began producing
protest songs in the 1960s. Because most country musicians knew
their fans were conservative, they shunned progressive politics.
Country music has endured for nearly a century due to its
adaptability. Like country musicians in the 1920s and 1930s,
performers since the 1970s have refused to be pigeonholed. 1970s
country music was transformed by country-pop and country-rock.
Country music has been hybridized into the 21st century, with
country performers topping the charts. Country music continues to
captivate audiences with captivating musical fusions.
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27: Scribble Day: -- Today's all
about celebrating the creativity and the art associated with
scribbling, which anyone can do regardless of their artistic
abilities. So the last time you scribbled aimlessly to relieve
boredom, you might have probably not known that there is actually
a day to celebrate the stress-releasing act of scribbling.
Scribbling is sometimes referred to as doodling and the terms are
often used interchangeably but there is a slight underlying
difference between both the acts and the origin of the words. The
word scribble can be traced back to the Latin 'scribere,' which
actually means 'to write'. To scribble is to write letters or
words hastily, often in an illegible manner. Doodle, on the other
hand, refers to drawing or amateur art. Etymologically, the word
doodle is derived from the German 'Dudeltopf' or 'Dudeldop,'
meaning 'simpleton'. So think of these terms as follows: when
students are under pressure, they scribble on their notebooks,
whereas students who are bored and daydreaming in class make
doodles. The history of International Scribble day itself does not
go too far back as the day was recently founded by Diane Alber,
author of "I'm NOT Just a Scribble" in 2019. The book is
about kindness and acceptance, demonstrated by a cute character,
Scribble, and encourages children to create art no matter their
ability. Diane made a Facebook post about her idea of initiating a
National Scribble Day and got some very positive responses from
teachers, so she went ahead with it. The day is usually celebrated
in schools where children gather for different activities to
create their own Scribble, the character from the book.
International Scribble day encourages the practice of scribbling
because, after all, every artist started with a scribble!
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 1361: The Plague: Pandemics:
The Black Death: The Second Plague Pandemic (The Second Black
Death, The Second Black Plague): The Black Death In Italy: The
Second Pestilence (Italian: Pesta Secunda): -- The Second Plague
Pandemic, the second pandemic of the Black Death that first
decimated populations around the world in 1346-53, ends
temporarily in Italy after having killed a fifth of the
population, hitting Pisa, Pistoia and Florence in Tuscany
especially hard, in the first recurrence of the pandemic spanning
from 1361 to 1363; in the Pesta Tertia (Italian: "Third
Pestilence") of 1369 to 1371, 10-15% of the remaining
population of Italy died. The Second Plague Pandemic was a major
series of epidemics of plague that started with the bubonic plague
Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality,
the Plague or the Black Plague) which reached Europe in 1348 and
killed up to a half of the population of Eurasia in the next four
years. Although the plague died out in most places, it became
endemic and recurred regularly. A series of major epidemics
occurred in the late 17th century, and the disease recurred in
some places until the late 18th century or the early 19th century.
After this, a new strain of the bacterium gave rise to the third
plague pandemic which started in Asia around the mid-19th century.
Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which exists in
parasitic fleas of several species in the wild and of rats in
human society. In an outbreak, it may kill all of its immediate
hosts and thus die out, but it can remain active in other hosts
that it does not kill, thereby causing a new outbreak years or
decades later. The bacterium has several means of transmission and
infection, including through rats carried on ships or vehicles,
fleas hidden in grain and, in its more virulent forms, transmitted
by blood and sputum directly between humans.
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 196 BC: Archaelogy
(Archeology): Great Discoveries Of Archaeology: Ancient Egypt:
Hellenistic Egypt: The Ptolemaic Dynasty (The Lagid Dynasty, The
Twenty-Third Dynasty Of Egypt, Dynasty XXIII, 23rd Dynasty,
Dynasty 23): Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Rosetta Stone (The Rosetta
Stone Decree, The Decree Of Memphis) -- The Rosetta Stone Decree,
a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt during the Ptolemaic dynasty on
behalf of King Ptolemy V, was on some undetermined date carved
with the date of March 27, 196 BC decree onto The Rosetta Stone. a
granodiorite stele, inscribed with three different transcriptions
of the decree. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian
using hieroglyphic script and Demotic script, respectively, while
the bottom is in Ancient Greek. As the decree has only minor
differences between the three versions, the Rosetta Stone proved
to be the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. The stone,
carved in black granodiorite during the Hellenistic period, is
believed to have originally been displayed within a temple,
possibly at nearby Sais. It was probably moved during the early
Christian or medieval period, and was eventually used as building
material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of
Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. On July 15, 1799, The Rosetta
Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French
Captain Pierre-Francois Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian
Campaign. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text
recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public
interest with its potential to decipher this previously
untranslated hieroglyphic language. Lithographic copies and
plaster casts began circulating among European museums and
scholars. Meanwhile, British troops defeated the French in Egypt
in 1801, and the original stone came into British possession under
the Capitulation of Alexandria and was transported to London. It
has been on public display at the British Museum almost
continuously since 1802, and is the most-visited object there.
Study of the decree was already under way when the first full
translation of the Greek text appeared in 1803. It was 20 years,
however, before the transliteration of the Egyptian scripts was
announced by Jean-Francois Champollion in Paris in 1822; it took
longer still before scholars were able to read Ancient Egyptian
inscriptions and literature confidently. Major advances in the
decoding were recognition that the stone offered three versions of
the same text (1799); that the demotic text used phonetic
characters to spell foreign names (1802); that the hieroglyphic
text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic
(Thomas Young, 1814); and that, in addition to being used for
foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native
Egyptian words (Champollion, 1822-1824). Ever since its
rediscovery, the stone has been the focus of nationalist
rivalries, including its transfer from French to British
possession during the Napoleonic Wars, a long-running dispute over
the relative value of Young and Champollion's contributions to the
decipherment and, since 2003, demands for the stone's return to
Egypt. Two other fragmentary copies of the same decree were
discovered later, and several similar Egyptian bilingual or
trilingual inscriptions are now known, including two slightly
earlier Ptolemaic decrees (the Decree of Canopus in 238 BC, and
the Memphis decree of Ptolemy IV, c. 218 BC). The Rosetta Stone
is, therefore, no longer unique, but it was the essential key to
modern understanding of Ancient Egyptian literature and
civilisation. The term Rosetta Stone is now used in other contexts
as the name for the essential clue to a new field of knowledge.
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 1945: World War II: The
European Civil War: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): The Western Front Of World War II: Wunderwaffen
(German: "Wonder Weapons", "Miracle Weapons");
V-Weapons (German: Vergeltungswaffen, "Vengeance Weapons",
"Retaliatory Weapons", "Reprisal Weapons"):
The V-2 (The V-2 Rocket, German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Vengeance
Weapon 2"; Aggregat 4, German: "Aggregate 4", A-4):
-- The final German V-2 rocket missile attack occurs, with one of
them killing 134 people and injuring 49 when it hit a block of
flats in Stepney. V-2 rocket launching sites had been set up by
the Germans around The Hague in the Netherlands on September 6,
1944. The first V-2 attack was launched from here against London
on September 8, 1944 and took an estimated 5 minutes to fly the
200 miles (320 km) from the Hague to London, where it struck at
6:43pm on Chiswick, causing 13 casualties. On November 25, 1944, a
V-2 rocket hit a Woolworth's shop at in London, United Kingdom,
killing 168 people and seriously injuring 121. As the V-2
explosions came without warning, the government initially
attempted to conceal their cause by blaming them on defective gas
mains. However, the public was not fooled and soon began
sardonically referring to the V-2s as "Flying gas pipes".
Intercepting the supersonic V-2 missiles in flight proved
virtually impossible, and other countermeasures, such as bombing
the launch sites, were fairly ineffectual. Sustained bombardment
continued until March 1945.
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 1892: #BOTD: Wilhelm Theodor H.
Wulff, German-Austrian astrologer to Hitler and Himmler (d. June
9, 1979) is #born in Hamburg, Germany at 8:15 AM. In 1912 Wulff
came across the horoscopes which Kepler had cast for Wallenstein,
initially in 1608 and then a corrected version, based on more
accurate birth data, in 1625. Wulff was so impressed with Kepler's
work that he studied the celestial science and became one of the
leading astrologers in Nazi Germany. In his 1968 book "Zodiac
and Swastika: How Astrology Guided Hitler's Germany", Wulff
recounts how Arthur Nebe -- SS functionary who held key positions
in the security and police apparatus of Nazi Germany and was, from
1941, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust -- and Walter
Schellenberg -- SS functionary who becomed one of the highest
ranking men in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and eventually assumed
the position as head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany
following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944 -- assigned him
various astrological tasks; he also mentions that they had used
pendulum dowsers like Ludwig Straniak -- a mystic Germanic
revivalist noted for his pendulum work and forced against his will
to work for the Nazis by holding his family hostage -- for similar
purposes. Wulff concludes his book by arguing that "National
Socialism was smashed and disappeared from the scene. Astrology
[...] remained". The historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke takes
the book as evidence that Wulff was consulted by Heinrich Himmler
in the last weeks of the war. Wilhelm Theodor H. Wulff's death and
burial details are not publicly disclosed.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Project: Man In Space 1961 US & Secret USSR Space Films DVD,
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 1968: #DOTD: #RIP: Yuri
Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. March 9, 1934)
#dies while on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base
as he and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin crash in a MiG-15UTI
near the town of Kirzhach. The bodies of Gagarin and Seryogin were
cremated and the ashes were buried in the walls of the Kremlin on
Red Square. Gagarin was survived by his wife Valentina, and
daughters Yelena and Galina. The cause of the crash that killed
Gagarin is not entirely certain, and has been subject to
speculation about conspiracy theories over the ensuing decades. At
least three investigations into the crash were conducted
separately by the Air Force, official government commissions, and
the KGB. According to a biography of Gagarin by Jamie Doran and
Piers Bizony, Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri
Gagarin, the KGB worked "not just alongside the Air Force and
the official commission members but against them." The KGB's
report, declassified in March 2003, claimed that the actions of
airbase personnel contributed to the crash. The report states that
an air-traffic controller provided Gagarin with outdated weather
information and that by the time of his flight, conditions had
deteriorated significantly. Ground crew also left external fuel
tanks attached to the aircraft. Gagarin's planned flight
activities needed clear weather and no outboard tanks. The
investigation concluded Gagarin's aircraft entered a spin, either
due to a bird strike or because of a sudden move to avoid another
aircraft. Because of the out-of-date weather report, the crew
believed their altitude was higher than it was and could not react
properly to bring the MiG-15 out of its spin. Another theory,
advanced in 2005 by the original crash investigator, hypothesizes
that a cabin air vent was accidentally left open by the crew or
the previous pilot, leading to oxygen deprivation and leaving the
crew incapable of controlling the aircraft. A similar theory,
published in Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine, is that the
crew detected the open vent and followed procedure by executing a
rapid dive to a lower altitude. This dive caused them to lose
consciousness and crash. On April 12, 2007, the Kremlin vetoed a
new investigation into the death of Gagarin. Government officials
said they saw no reason to begin a new investigation. In April
2011, documents from a 1968 commission set up by the Central
Committee of the Communist Party to investigate the accident were
declassified. The documents revealed that the commission's
original conclusion was that Gagarin or Seryogin had manoeuvred
sharply, either to avoid a weather balloon or to avoid "entry
into the upper limit of the first layer of cloud cover",
leading the jet into a "super-critical flight regime and to
its stalling in complex meteorological conditions". Alexei
Leonov, who was also a member of a state commission established to
investigate Gagarin's death, was conducting parachute training
sessions that day and heard "two loud booms in the distance".
He believes that a Sukhoi Su-15 was flying below its minimum
altitude and, "without realizing it because of the terrible
weather conditions, he passed within 10 or 20 meters (33 or 66 ft)
of Yuri and Seregin's plane while breaking the sound barrier".
The resulting turbulence would have sent the MiG-15UTI into an
uncontrolled spin. Leonov said the first boom he heard was that of
the jet breaking the sound barrier and the second was Gagarin's
plane crashing. Yuri Gagarin was born Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin in
Gzhatsk, USSR. On April 12, 1961, he became the first man in
space, orbiting in a capsule 187 miles above the Earth's surface
in a flight lasting 108 minutes. His space flight caused a
worldwide sensation and marked the beginning of the space race as
the U.S. worked to catch up to the Soviets and launch an American
into space. President John F. Kennedy later asserted the U.S.
would land a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Auschwitz And The Allies 2 Part TV Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 2006: #DOTD: #RIP: Rudolf Vrba
(Rudolf Urba), Czech Slovak-Jewish Canadian pharmacologist,
educator, holocaust victim who became known for his daring escapee
from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in April 1944, at the
height of the Holocaust, and for having co-written a detailed
report about the mass murder that was taking place there, which
having been distributed by George Mantello in Switzerland is
credited with having halted the mass deportation of Hungary's Jews
to Auschwitz in July 1944, saving more than 200,000 lives (b.
September 11, 1924) #dies of cancer aged 81 in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada. He is buried at Boundary Bay Cemetery in
Tsawwassen in The Greater Vancouver Regional District. Rudolf Vrba
was born Walter Rosenberg into a Jewish family in Topolcany,
Czechoslovakia. As a teenager in 1942, Rudolf Vrba was deported to
the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. On
April 10, 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escaped from
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Vrba gave a detailed account of his
escape in the two part TV documentary series "Auschwitz And
The Allies". After the war Vrba trained as a biochemist,
working mostly in England and Canada. Vrba and fellow escapee
Alfred Wetzler fled Auschwitz three weeks after German forces
invaded Hungary and shortly before the SS began mass deportations
of Hungary's Jewish population to the camp. The information the
men dictated to Jewish officials when they arrived in Slovakia on
April 24, 1944, which included that new arrivals in Auschwitz were
being gassed and not "resettled" as the Germans
maintained, became known as the Vrba-Wetzler report. When the War
Refugee Board published it with considerable delay in November
1944, the New York Herald Tribune described it as "the most
shocking document ever issued by a United States government
agency". While it confirmed material in earlier reports from
Polish and other escapees, the historian Miroslav Karny wrote that
it was unique in its "unflinching detail". There was a
delay of several weeks before the report was distributed widely
enough to gain the attention of governments. Mass transports of
Hungary's Jews to Auschwitz began on May 15, 1944 at a rate of
12,000 people a day. Most went straight to the gas chambers. Vrba
argued until the end of his life that the deportees might have
refused to board the trains, or at least that their panic would
have disrupted the transports, had the report been distributed
widely and sooner. From late June and into July 1944, material
from the Vrba-Wetzler report appeared in newspapers and radio
broadcasts in the United States and Europe, particularly in
Switzerland, prompting world leaders to appeal to Hungarian regent
Miklos Horthy to halt the deportations. On July 2 American and
British forces bombed Budapest, and on July 6, in an effort to
exert his sovereignty, Horthy ordered that the deportations should
end. By then, over 434,000 Jews had been deported in 147 trains --
almost the entire Jewish population of the Hungarian countryside
-- but another 200,000 in Budapest were saved.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: CIA The
Secret Files The Central Intelligence Agency TV Series MP4 DVD
Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP: James R.
Schlesinger, American economist, public servant and politician,
12th United States Secretary Of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under
Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Chair of the Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC) from 1971 to 1973 under President Nixon,
CIA Director for a few months in 1973 under Nixon, and America's
first Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter in 1977, serving
until 1979 (b. February 15, 1929) #dies at the Johns Hopkins
Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland of complications
from pneumonia, aged 85. James R. Schlesinger was born James
Rodney Schlesinger in New York City, the son of a Lithuanian
emigrant Jewish mother from what was then part of the Russian
Empire and an Austrian Jewish imigrant father. He converted to
Lutheranism in his early twenties. While Secretary of Defense, he
opposed amnesty for draft resisters and pressed for development of
more sophisticated nuclear weapon systems. Additionally, his
support for the A-10 and the lightweight fighter program (later
the F-16) helped ensure that they were carried to completion.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Hollywood Without Make-Up: Film Star Home Movies DVD MP4 Download
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 2002: #DOTD: #RIP: Billy
Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, screenwriter
and filmmaker (b. June 22, 1906) #dies of pneumonia in Beverly
Hills, California, aged 95. He is buried at Pierce Brothers
Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary, a reference to the
last line of Some Like It Hot. His gravestone bears the epitaph
"I'M A WRITER BUT THEN NOBODY'S PERFECT", a paraphrase
of the last line of Some Like It Hot; A French newspaper, Le
Monde, titled its front-page obituary: "Billy Wilder is dead.
Nobody is perfect". Billy Wilder was born Samuel Wilder to a
family of Polish Jews in Sucha Beskidzka, a small town which, at
that time, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His career in
Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the
most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Classic Hollywood
cinema. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director
eight times, winning twice, and for a screenplay Academy Award 13
times, winning three times. Wilder became a screenwriter while
living in Berlin. The rise of the Nazi Party and antisemitism in
Germany saw him move to Paris. He then moved to Hollywood in 1933,
and had a major hit when he, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch
wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award-nominated film
Ninotchka (1939). Wilder established his directorial reputation
and received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best
Director with the film noir Double Indemnity (1944), based on the
novel by James M Cain with a screenplay by Wilder and Raymond
Chandler. Wilder won the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy
Awards for the film adaptation of the novel The Lost Weekend
(1945), which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In the
1950s, Wilder directed and co-wrote a string of critically
acclaimed films, including the Hollywood drama Sunset Boulevard
(1950), for which he won his second screenplay Academy Award; Ace
in the Hole (1951), Stalag 17 (1953) and Sabrina (1954). Wilder
directed and co-wrote three films in 1957, including The Spirit of
St. Louis, Love in the Afternoon and Witness for the Prosecution.
Wilder directed Marilyn Monroe in two films, The Seven Year Itch
(1955) and Some Like It Hot (1959). In 1960, Wilder co-wrote,
directed and produced the critically acclaimed film The Apartment.
It won Wilder Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and
Best Original Screenplay. Beginning with Some Like It Hot and The
Apartment, he made seven films with Jack Lemmon, four of which
co-starred Walter Matthau; the threesome's first collaboration was
The Fortune Cookie (1966). Other notable films Wilder directed
include One, Two, Three (1961), Irma la Douce (1963), Kiss Me,
Stupid (1964) and Avanti! (1972). Wilder directed fourteen actors
in Oscar-nominated performances. Wilder received various honors
over his distinguished career between the late 1980s and 1990s. He
received the British Academy Film Award Fellowship Award, the
Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award, the
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, and the Producers
Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. Double Indemnity,
Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment are included
in the AFI's greatest American films of all time. As of 2019,
seven of his films are preserved in the United States National
Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally,
historically or aesthetically significant". Anthony Lane
writes that Double Indemnity, The Seven Year Itch, Sunset
Boulevard and The Apartment are "part of the lexicon of
moviegoing" and that Some Like It Hot is a "national
treasure." Roger Ebert asked, "Of all the great
directors of Hollywood's golden age, has anybody made more films
that are as fresh and entertaining to this day as Billy
Wilder's?...And who else can field three contenders among the
greatest closing lines of all time?", citing the closing
lines of Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot, and The Apartment.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Milton
Berle On Hollywood Palace (1969) DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 2002: #DOTD: #RIP: Milton
Berle, American comedian and actor (b. July 12, 1908) #dies in Los
Angeles from colon cancer, on the same day as Dudley Moore and
Billy Wilder. Born Mendel Berlinger into a Jewish family in
Harlem, he was as the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948-55)
the first major American television star, and was known to
millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr.
Television" during TV's golden age. Berle entered show
business in 1913 at the age of five when he won a children's
Charlie Chaplin contest. He also worked as a child model and was
the first "Buster Brown" for "Buster Brown"
shows. He appeared as a child actor in silent films, beginning
with The Perils of Pauline, filmed in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Around
1920, at age 12, Berle made his stage debut in a revival of the
musical comedy Florodora in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which later
moved to Broadway. By the time he was 16, he was working as a
Master of Ceremonies in Vaudeville. He became nationally famous in
1934 when was heard regularly on The Rudy Vallee Hour. The Milton
Berle Show radio series brought Berle together with Arnold Stang,
later a familiar face as Berle's TV sidekick. Others in the cast
were Pert Kelton, Mary Schipp, Jack Albertson, Arthur Q. Bryan, Ed
Begley, Brazilian singer Dick Farney, and announcer Frank Gallop.
Sponsored by Philip Morris, it aired on NBC from March 11, 1947
until April 13, 1948. Berle later described this series as "the
best radio show I ever did ... a hell of a funny variety show".
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Camera
Magic Images Of Nature Oxford Scientific Films DVD, MP4, USB
Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 2002: #DOTD: #RIP: Dudley
Moore, English actor, comedian, pianist and composer (b. April 19,
1935) #dies in Plainfield, New Jersey as a result of pneumonia,
secondary to immobility caused by progressive supranuclear palsy
(PSP), a Parkinson-plus syndrome, at the age of 66. Rena Fruchter,
his music collaborator and fellow pianist was holding his hand
when he died; she reported his final words were "I can hear
the music all around me." Moore is interred at Hillside
Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Dudley Stuart John Moore,
CBE was born at the original Charing Cross Hospital in central
London, England. He first came to prominence in the UK as one of
the four writer-performers in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe
from 1960, and with one member of that team, Peter Cook,
collaborated on the television series Not Only... But Also. The
double act worked on other projects until the mid-1970s, by which
time Moore had settled in Los Angeles to concentrate on his film
acting. His solo career as a comedy film actor was heightened by
the success of hit Hollywood films, particularly Foul Play (1978),
10 (1979) and Arthur (1981). For Arthur, Moore was nominated for
the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award. He
received a second Golden Globe for his performance in Micki and
Maude (1984).
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Hunt
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Michael
York, British film, television, and stage actor, is #born Michael
Hugh Johnson in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England. After performing
on stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in
films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet
(1968). He played leading roles in several major British and
Hollywood films, especially in the 1970s. Michael York, OBE's most
notable roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone
(1970), Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in Zeppelin (1971), Brian Roberts
in Cabaret (1972), George Conway in Lost Horizon (1973),
D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (also 1973) and its two
sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974),
Logan 5 in Logan's Run (1976), and John the Baptist in Jesus of
Nazareth (1977). In his later career, York found success as Basil
Exposition in the Austin Powers film series (1997-2002). York
received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was also awarded
the Order of the British Empire (OBE) at the 1996 Birthday
Honours.
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Offshore Pirate Radio 1960s-1980s MP3s DVD, Audio Download, USB
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 1946: #BOTD: #HBD! Andy Bown,
cofounder. keyboardist and bassist of the rock band Status Quo, is
#born Andrew Steven Bown in Beckenham, Kent, England. Status Quo
are a British rock band that formed in 1962. The group originated
in London as The Scorpions and was founded by Francis Rossi and
Alan Lancaster while they were still schoolboys. After a number of
lineup changes, which included the introduction of John Coghlan in
1963 and Rick Parfitt in 1967, the band became The Status Quo in
1967 and Status Quo in 1969. As of 2026, the group have been
active for 60 consecutive years (despite announcing a breakup in
1984, they would play Live Aid the following year and resume
normal activities in 1986). They have had over 60 chart hits in
the UK - more than any other rock band - including "Pictures
of Matchstick Men", "Down Down", "Rockin' All
Over the World", "Whatever You Want", "In the
Army Now", and "What You're Proposing". Twenty-two
of these reached the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart, and
fifty-seven reached the Top 40. They have released over 100
singles and 33 albums, most of which were bestsellers. Since
reaching number 5 on the UK albums chart in 1972 with Piledriver,
Status Quo have achieved a career total of 25 UK top ten albums,
extending all the way up to their most recent release, Backbone,
in 2019. As of 2015, they were one of only 50 artists to have ever
achieved more than 500 total weeks on the UK Albums Chart. With
their various records for both single and album releases, Status
Quo are one of the most successful bands of all time in the UK. In
July 1985 the band opened Live Aid at Wembley Stadium with
"Rockin' All Over the World". In 1991, Status Quo
received a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
Status Quo appeared on the BBC's Top of the Pops more than any
other band. Their success and longevity as well, in part, as their
connections to the British Royal Family, including philanthropic
work with the Prince's Trust, have seen them frequently described
as a "national institution" by the media. Bown's first
major band was the English rock band The Herd, founded in 1965. In
1966, 16-year-old Peter Frampton joined as lead singer and
guitarist. The band had three UK top twenty hits in the late
1960s, including "From the Underworld" and "I Don't
Want Our Loving to Die", before Frampton left in 1968 to form
Humble Pie with Steve Marriott. The band broke up shortly after,
reforming briefly and unsuccessfully in 1971. After The Herd
dissolved, Andy Bown spent two years with Judas Jump who were the
opening act of the Isle of Wight Festival 1970. He played
[keyboards at first] for Frampton in the 1970s then switched to
bass briefly when Rick Wills departed the Peter Frampton band in
early 1975. Bown himself left the Frampton entourage less than a
year later, just as Frampton was on the verge of achieving
worldwide success. He went back to England where he first dabbled
with a solo career (recording two solo albums for Bill Gaff's GM
label, US Mercury), then resumed work with Status Quo whom he
started playing keyboards for in 1973 as a session musician,
including sessions with Jerry Lee Lewis on the London Sessions
Album. Andy first appeared on Quo's Hello! album in that year;
performing on every album by the band from 1977's Rockin' All Over
the World onwards, and supporting them in concert. He joined
Status Quo as a full member in 1982, and has been with them ever
since. Bown released a number of singles in the 1970s, including
"New York Satyricon Zany" and "Another Shipwreck",
none of which charted. His most well-known song however was the
theme tune to the children's series Ace of Wands, "Tarot".
He also released five albums, the first of which, Gone to My Head,
was released in 1972. His latest solo album Unfinished Business
was released on September 5, 2011. The album was produced by Mike
Paxman and recorded by Chris West, it features contributions from
Henry Spinetti on drums, Mick Rogers on guitars, Trevor Bolder and
Brad Lang on basses as well as vocalists Juliet Roberts and Sylvia
Mason-James. It was recorded at State of the Ark Studios in
Richmond, Surrey in 2010. He was the bass player in the "Surrogate
Band" during Pink Floyd's The Wall tour in 1980 and 1981 and
can be heard on the live album Is There Anybody Out There? The
Wall Live 1980-81. He also did some keyboards for Pink Floyd's The
Final Cut album. and on Jack the Lad's last album Jackpot in 1976.
In addition he played Hammond organ and 12-string guitar during
the recording of Roger Waters' solo album The Pros and Cons of
Hitch Hiking in 1984, but did not take part in Waters' subsequent
tours. He still plays keyboards, guitar and harmonica with Status
Quo, and is an integral part of the band, having co-written many
well known Quo songs on various studio albums, most prominently
collaborating with Rick Parfitt on the group's 1979 hit "Whatever
You Want".
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 1625: #DOTD: #RIP: James VI and
I, King Of Scotland as James VI from July 24, 1567 and King Of
England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and
English crowns on March 24 1603 until his death (b. June 19, 1566)
#dies at Theobalds House in Hertfordshire, England during a
violent attack of dysentery, aged 58. He was succeeded by his
second son, Charles I. James's funeral on May 7 was a magnificent
but disorderly affair. Bishop John Williams of Lincoln preached
the sermon, observing, "King Solomon died in Peace, when he
had lived about sixty years ... and so you know did King James".
The sermon was later printed as Great Britain's Salomon [sic].
James is buried in Westminster Abbey. The position of the tomb was
lost for many years until his lead coffin was found in the Henry
VII vault, during an excavation in the 19th century. He was born
James Charles Stuart in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland, the
only son of Mary, Queen Of Scots, and her second husband, Henry
Stuart, Lord Darnley. As the eldest son and heir apparent of the
monarch, James automatically became Duke of Rothesay and Prince
and Great Steward of Scotland, Both Mary and Darnley were
great-grandchildren of Henry VII of England through Margaret
Tudor, the older sister of Henry VIII, thus James as a
great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of
Ireland, was a potential successor to all three thrones. Mary's
rule over Scotland was insecure, and she and her husband, being
Roman Catholics, faced a rebellion by Protestant noblemen. During
Mary's and Darnley's difficult marriage, Darnley secretly allied
himself with the rebels and conspired in the murder of the queen's
private secretary, David Rizzio, just three months before James's
birth. Although James wanted to bring about a closer union between
the kingdoms of Scotland and England, they remained individual
sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and
laws, both ruled by James in personal union. He succeeded to the
Scottish throne at the age of thirteen months, after his mother
was compelled to abdicate in his favour. Four different regents
governed during his minority, which ended officially in 1578,
though he did not gain full control of his government until 1583.
In 1603, he succeeded Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch of
England and Ireland, who died childless. He continued to reign in
all three kingdoms for 22 years, a period known as the Jacobean
era, until his death in 1625. After the Union Of The Crowns, he
based himself in England (the largest of the three realms) from
1603, returning to Scotland only once, in 1617, and styled himself
"King of Great Britain and Ireland". He was a major
advocate of a single parliament for England and Scotland. In his
reign, the Plantation of Ulster and English colonisation of the
Americas began. At 57 years and 246 days, James's reign in
Scotland was the longest of any Scottish monarch. He achieved most
of his aims in Scotland but faced great difficulties in England,
including the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and repeated conflicts with
the English Parliament. Under James, the "Golden Age" of
Elizabethan literature and drama continued, with writers such as
William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and Francis Bacon
contributing to a flourishing literary culture. James himself was
a prolific writer, authoring works such as Daemonologie (1597) (a
study on demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled
men, a book which endorses the practice of witch hunting), The
True Law of Free Monarchies (1598), and Basilikon Doron (1599). He
sponsored the translation of the Bible into English later named
after him, the Authorized King James Version, and the 1604
revision of the Book of Common Prayer. Anthony Weldon claimed that
James had been termed "the wisest fool in Christendom",
an epithet associated with his character ever since. Since the
latter half of the 20th century, historians have tended to revise
James's reputation and treat him as a serious and thoughtful
monarch. He was strongly committed to a peace policy, and tried to
avoid involvement in religious wars, especially the Thirty Years'
War that devastated much of Central Europe. He tried but failed to
prevent the rise of hawkish elements in the English Parliament who
wanted war with Spain.
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 1998: #DOTD: Ferdinand Porsche
(Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche), mainly known as Ferry Porsche,
Austrian-German engineer, technical automobile designer,
automaker-entrepreneur and businessman who operated Porsche AG in
Stuttgart, Germany (b. September 19, 1909) #dies 74 days short of
the 50th anniversary of the company at the age of 88, at the
Porsche family farm in Zell am See, Austria. He is buried there at
the Schuttgut church, beside his parents, his wife Dorothea and
Anton Piech. Porsche AG conducted a memorial service soon after in
Stuttgart. Ferry Porsche's father, Ferdinand Porsche, Sr. was also
a renowned automobile engineer and founder of Volkswagen and
Porsche. His nephew, Ferdinand Piech, was the longtime chairman of
Volkswagen Group, and his son, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, was
involved in the design of the 911. Ferry Porsche's life was
intimately connected with that of his father, Ferdinand Porsche,
Sr., who began sharing his knowledge of mechanical engineering
already in his childhood. With his father he opened a bureau of
automobile design, in Stuttgart in 1931. They worked together to
fulfill their country's National Socialist regime's needs and they
met Adolf Hitler at many business events. The Volkswagen Beetle
was designed by Ferdinand Porsche, Sr. and a team of engineers,
including Ferry Porsche. After World War II, while his father
remained imprisoned in France being accused of war crimes, Ferry
Porsche ran their company. Aided by the postwar Volkswagen
enterprise, he created the first cars that were uniquely
associated with the company. Despite the political-economical
adversities of the postwar years, the company manufactured
automobiles and, eventually, became a world powerhouse for
producing sports cars.
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 1900: #DOTD: #RIP: Joseph A.
Campbell, American businessman, founder of Campbell's Soup in 1869
when he partnered with Abraham Anderson (b. May 15, 1817) #dies in
Riverton, New Jersey, aged 82. He is buried in Woodlands Cemetery
in Philadelphia. Joseph Albert Campbell was born in Bridgeton, New
Jersey. The Campbell Soup Company, also known as just Campbell's,
is an American processed food and snack company. As the name
implies, the company is most closely associated with its flagship
canned soup products, however it has through mergers and
acquisitions grown to become one of the largest processed food
companies in the U.S., with a wide variety of products under its
flagship Campbell's brand as well as such well-known brands as
Pepperidge Farm, Snyder's of Hanover, V8, and Swanson. Under these
brands and many others, Campbell's produces not only soups and
broths, but other canned meals such as SpaghettiOs, baked goods
such as cookies and crackers, beverages, and salty snacks such as
pretzels and potato chips. It is headquartered in Camden, New
Jersey. The classic red-and-white can design used by many
Campbell's branded products has become an American icon, and its
use in pop art was typified by Andy Warhol's series of Campbell's
Soup Cans prints.
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 1990: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: Cold War Broadcasting: Cold War Television
Broadcasting: The Cuban Cold War: Radio Y Television Marti (TV
Marti): -- The United States begins broadcasting TV Marti, an
anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba. Radio Television Marti
(Radio Y Television Marti) is an American radio and television
international broadcaster based in Miami, Florida, financed by the
Federal government of the United States through the U.S. Agency
for Global Media (formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors, BBG),
which transmits news in Spanish to Cuba. Its broadcasts can also
be heard and viewed worldwide through their website and on
shortwave radio frequencies. Named after the Cuban national hero
and intellectual Jose Marti, it was established in 1983 with the
addition of TV Marti in 1990. The 2014 budget for the Cuba
broadcasting program is approximately 27M USD. Radio Television
Marti is an element of the International Broadcasting Bureau
(IBB). The sister elements in the IBB are Voice Of America (VOA),
Alhurra/Radio Sawa, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL),
Radio Farda, and Radio Free Asia (RFA). The IBB and the
Broadcasting Board of Governors are independent federal entities
spun off from the now defunct United States Information Agency.
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 1866: The Reconstruction Era
(Reconstruction): The Civil Rights Act Of 1866: -- The Civil
Rights Act Of 1866 (14 Stat. 27-30), the first United States
federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are
equally protected by the law, is vetoed by President Andrew
Johnson; his veto will be overridden by Congress and the bill
passed into law on April 9. The Civil Rights Act Of 1866 act was
mainly intended to protect the civil rights of persons of African
descent born in or brought to the U.S., in the wake of the
American Civil War. This legislation was enacted by Congress in
1865 but vetoed by President Andrew Johnson. In April 1866
Congress again passed the bill to support the Thirteenth
Amendment, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude,
except as punishment for a crime. Although Johnson again vetoed
it, a two-thirds majority in each chamber overcame the veto and
the bill therefore became law. John Bingham and some other
congressmen argued that Congress did not yet have sufficient
constitutional power to enact this law. Following passage of the
Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, which addressed citizenship rights
and equal protection under the laws in response to issues related
to former slaves following the American Civil War, Congress
reenacted the 1866 Act in 1871.
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Today, March 27, 2026March 27, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Chelsea
Brown, African American-born actress of television and film,
comedian, dancer and beauty, who appeared as a regular performer
in the comedy television series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (b.
Lois Brown, December 6, 1942) #dies of pneumonia in her hometown
of Chicago, Illinois at the age of 74. She had a successful career
in her native land before emigrating to Australia, where she
became well-known mostly for her roles in soap opera/serials
including top-rating Number 96 and as Abby Rossiter Patchett on E
Street. Brown was born as Lois Brown in Chicago, Illinois to
Mildred and Edward Brown. She appeared in a segment of a
first-season episode of Love, American Style titled "Love and
the Militant", with fellow Laugh-In alumnus Stu Gilliam.
Other guest roles included appearances in Marcus Welby, M.D.,
Ironside, Matt Lincoln, The Flying Nun, Match Game (in 1974) and,
in the UK, The Two Ronnies, singing The Carpenters song "Let
Me Be the One". She also appeared in the films Sweet Charity
(1969), Dial Hot Line (1970) and The Thing with Two Heads (1972).
Brown met and became engaged to Australian property developer
Kelvin Barry Hirst whilst holidaying in Acapulco, Mexico in 1973.
Brown emigrated to Australia shortly after that, Hirst became her
manager and they were married in 1977. They divorced in the early
1980s. Hirst features as the male vocal on Brown's record "Day
Dreaming" (October 1975). Brown became a familiar figure on
Australian television, with appearances on Graham Kennedy's
Blankety Blanks, Jimmy Hannan's Celebrity Squares plus ongoing
roles in soap operas Number 96 (in 1977), and Network Ten's E
Street (in 1990-1991) and various advertisements. She had a guest
role in the Australian-filmed revival of Mission: Impossible
(1988). Film roles in Australia included The Return of Captain
Invincible (1983) and Welcome to Woop Woop (1997). In the mid
1990s, she was married to fellow E Street actor Vic Rooney, who
died in 2002, after which she returned to the United States.
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