March 27: Laetare Sunday (Western Christianity, 2017)
CG rendering of the Tenerife airport disaster
- 1836 – Texas Revolution: Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the execution of about 400 Texian prisoners of war.
- 1884 – Outraged by a jury's decision to convict a man of manslaughter instead of murder, a mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., began three days of rioting.
- 1958 – First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev also took over the role of Premier.
- 1977 – Two Boeing 747 airliners collided (CG rendering pictured) on a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 people in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history.
- 2009 – A suicide bomber killed at least 48 people at a mosque in Jamrud, in the Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.
Domenico Lalli (b. 1679) · Simon Bradstreet (d. 1697) · Julia Alvarez (b. 1950)
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