Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
33961March 26Holiday and observanceSynaxis of the Archangel Gabriel (Eastern Christianity)
33962March 27Event87 BC – Crown Prince Fuling, later Emperor Zhao of Han, is named as Emperor Wu of Han's successor and heir to the throne. Emperor Wu dies two days later.
33963March 27Event1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
33964March 27Event1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
33965March 27Event1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
33966March 27Event1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
33967March 27Event1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
33968March 27Event1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
33969March 27Event1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
33970March 27Event1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
33971March 27Event1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real.
33972March 27Event1812 – Hugh McGary Jr. establishes what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
33973March 27Event1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
33974March 27Event1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army butchers 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
33975March 27Event1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
33976March 27Event1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
33977March 27Event1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of teetotalism by The Salvation Army.
33978March 27Event1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
33979March 27Event1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
33980March 27Event1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
33981March 27Event1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
33982March 27Event1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
33983March 27Event1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
33984March 27Event1918 – Bessarabia is ceded to the Kingdom of Romania.
33985March 27Event1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
33986March 27Event1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
33987March 27Event1943 – 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.
33988March 27Event1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
33989March 27Event1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea is convened.
33990March 27Event1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

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