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March 27 in history

198 sourced entries recorded on March 27, from 347 CE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 460March 27 (night) – Swabians invade the Gallic city of Lugo. The governor is killed.source
  • 1023Gebhard von Hohenwart becomes the new Bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria, upon the death of Gebhard of Swabia.source
  • 1111Battle of the Salnitsa river: Prince Vladimir of Kievan Rus' inflicts a crushing defeat on the Cumans (Polovtsy).source
  • 1184Tamar I becomes queen regnant of Georgia on the death of her father and coregent George III. She remains sole ruler of Georgia (the first woman to hold this office) until her death in 1213.source
  • 1188Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) holds a Diet at Mainz and takes the Cross, followed by his 21-year-old son, Frederick IV, and other German nobles. He sends a delegation to present an ultimatum to Saladin in Syria on May 26. With demands to withdraw his Muslim forces from Palestina and to return the True Cross to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.source
  • 1315In China, Kunga Lotro Gyaltsen is installed as the Imperial Preceptor of Tibetan Buddhists, by order of the Mongol Emperor Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan.source
  • 1318King Philip of France and Navarre reaches an agreement with the Capetian House of Burgundy to settle dissatisfaction over his claim of the crown as the brother of the late Louis X, ahead of Joan of Burgundy, the 4-year-old daughter of Louis X. King Philip agrees that Joan will arrange for Joan to eventually become the Queen of Navarre.source
  • 1349An earthquake in England strikes Meaux Abbey.source
  • 1370Antonio Ballester of Catalonia is appointed as the Latin Archbishop of Athens by Pope Urban VI.source
  • 1413The Republic of Genoa regains its independence after having been a territory of the Kingdom of France since 1396, and Giorgio Adorno is elected as the Doge for life. He will die after slightly less than two years in office.source
  • 1428Casimir V, Duke of Pomerania becomes the sole ruler of Pomerania-Stettin in Germany upon the death of his brother, Otto II, after the two had ruled jointly since 1413.source
  • 1437The regents for King Henry VI give royal assent to the legislation passed by the English Parliament, including the Marshalsea Act; the Exportation of Corn Act (excusing licensing fees of small amounts of grain, at less than 6 shillings, 8 pence for wheat or 3 shillings for barley); and the Guilds and Fraternities Act.source
  • 1442The English Parliament adjourns and King Henry VI gives royal assent to numerous adts passed, including the Treason Act 1442 (making the act of restraining English citizens or possessions within Wales an act punishable as treason) and the Peeresses Act 1441 (requiring that wives of nobles shall be put on trial in the same way as the peers of the realm)source
  • 1454Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, becomes Protector for King Henry VI of England, who is in a catatonic state.source
  • 1462Ivan III of Russia becomes the ruler of Russia, following the death of his father, Vasili.source
  • 1487Pope Innocent VIII issues an order designating the Roman Catholic Archbishop of St. Andrews, Robert Blackadder, as the Primate of All Scotland, outraging the bishops in Glasgow and the rest of Scotland.source
  • 1513Juan Ponce de León becomes the first European definitely known to sight Florida, mistaking it for another island.source
  • 1551French mechanical engineer Aubin Olivier becomes the director of the new Royal Mint, the Moulin des Etuves on the Île de la Cité in Paris after having learned the technique of producing uniform milled coinage during a sabbatical in Germany.source
  • 1599Essex leaves London with a large force to pursue a military campaign in Ireland.source
  • 1613The first English child is born in what will become Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.source
  • 1625Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland succeeds to the throne on the death of his father, King James VI and I.source
  • 1625Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of his father James I.source
  • 1630The first regulation regarding the Dannebrog Splitflag in which King Christian IV ordered that Norwegian Defensionskibe (armed merchant ships) may only use the Splitflag if they are in Danish-Norwegian war service.source
  • 1641The Battle of Pressnitz begins between the Holy Roman Empire and Sweden.source
  • 1641The Siege of São Filipe begins in the Azores as the Portuguese Navy fights to drive the Spanish out. After almost 11 months, the Portuguese prevail on March 4, 1642.source
  • 1641beginning of the 11 month Siege of São Filipe near Angra do Heroismo in the Azoressource
  • 1650Confederate Ireland's besieged capital Kilkenny is surrendered to Cromwell.source
  • 1651Proclamation in Liège revaluing 16-sou coins at 12 sous and prohibiting foreign copper coinssource
  • 1663the gold guinea coin worth one pound sterling (introduced 6 February) is proclaimed legal tender.source
  • 1667In North America (Canada), explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle is released from the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).source
  • 1668King Charles II of England signs an agreement with representatives of the English East India Company to lease the Indian city of Bombay (modern-day Mumbai) to the company for a rent of 10 pounds sterling per year, with transfer taking effect on September 21.source
  • 1672The Barony of Holckenhavn is by Eiler Holck from the manors of Kogsbølle, Ellensborg and Nygård.source
  • 1680The London Penny Post delivery service begins operations after being created by Robert Murray and William Dockwra, with a policy of delivering letters to any part of London or its suburbs for the price of one English penny.source
  • 1680The London Penny Post delivery service begins operations after being created by Robert Murray and William Dockwra, with a policy of delivering letters to any part of London or its suburbs for the price of one penny.source
  • 1689Japanese haiku master Bashō sets out on his last great voyage, which will result in the prose and verse classic Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow Road to the Interior").source
  • 1693Bozoklu Mustafa Pasha becomes the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, after Sultan Ahmed II appoints him as the successor of Çalık Ali Pasha.source
  • 1706Concluding that Emperor Iyasus I of Ethiopia has abdicated by retiring to a monastery, a council of high officials appoint Tekle Haymanot I Emperor of Ethiopia.source
  • 1713First Treaty of Utrecht between Great Britain and Spain: Philip V is accepted by Britain and Austria as king of Spain; Spain cedes Gibraltar and Menorca to Britain.source
  • 1713First Treaty of Utrecht between Britain and Spain. Spain cedes Gibraltar and Menorca.source
  • 1715Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, flees from Great Britain to France. His part in secret negotiations with France, leading to the Treaty of Utrecht, has cast suspicion on him in the eyes of the Whig government of Britain. He becomes secretary of state to the Pretender, James Edward Stuart.source
  • 1715Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke flees to France. His part in secret negotiations with France leading to the Treaty of Utrecht has cast suspicion on him in the eyes of the Whig government. He becomes Secretary of State to the Pretender, James Edward Stuart.source
  • 1717Actress Adrienne Lecouvreur is invited to join the Comédie-Française in Paris, performing first in the title rôle of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's Electresource
  • 1764The prince-electors, a group of nine German princes who select the next leader of the Holy Roman Empire, vote for the last time as the health of the Emperor Francis I declines. The electors (including Britain's King George III, who also rules as Elector of Hanover) approve Francis's son, Prince Joseph of Austria as King of the Romans. Upon the death of Francis in 1765, Prince Joseph becomes the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II.source
  • 1768Catherine the Great of Russia dispatches troops under General Pyotr Krechetnikov to intervene in a civil war in Poland, at the request of Poland's King Stanisław August Poniatowski, a move that will ultimately lead to the Partitions of Poland.source
  • 1782Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.source
  • 1782Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, becomes Prime Minister for the second time. His new Whig administration opens peace talks with the Americans, with Thomas Grenville being sent to Paris to negotiate with Benjamin Franklin.source
  • 1794The U.S. Senate passes a rule ending its policy of closing all of its sessions to the public.source
  • 1794Denmark-Norway and Sweden form a neutrality compact.source
  • 1794The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy vessels; in 1797 the first three frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution will go into service (not to be confused with October 13, 1775, which is observed as the Navy's Birthday).source
  • 1794The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy vessels (in 1797 the first 3 frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution go into service), not to be confused with October 13, 1775, which is observed as the Navy's Birthday .source
  • 1794The Marquis de Condorcet is arrested (while in disguise) in Clamart and imprisoned in Bourg-l'Égalité; two days later he is found dead in his cell.source
  • 1802March 25–27 – The Treaty of Amiens between the French Republic and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition. The treaty also ends the French Revolutionary Wars.source
  • 1810The Governor Bligh, Captain Chace, leaves Port Jackson with supplies for the Experiment. When it is discovered that the Leith party has already returned to Port Jackson Captain Chace decides to return via Foveaux Strait, where it collects (around June) the sealing gang left by the Fox in October 1809.source
  • 1811Battle of Anholt: The British Navy defeats Denmark.source
  • 1814War of 1812 – Battle of Horseshoe Bend: In northern Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek Indians.source
  • 1814Creek War – Battle of Horseshoe Bend: In northern Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek Indians.source
  • 1836The United States Survey of the Coast is returned to the U.S. Treasury Department, and renamed the U.S. Coast Survey.source
  • 1836Texas Revolution – Goliad massacre: 342 Texan prisoners are shot and killed, along with Texan General James Walker Fannin, by Mexican troops in Goliad, near the Presidio La Bahía.source
  • 1836The Kirtland Temple, the first Mormon temple, is dedicated by Joseph Smith Jr. in Kirtland, Ohio.source
  • 1843A decision in Foss v Harbottle, a leading precedent in English corporate law, declares that in any action in which a wrong is alleged to have been done to a company, the proper claimant is the company itself and not individual shareholders.source
  • 1851The first European men reportedly see Yosemite Valley.source
  • 1854Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.source
  • 1868The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.source
  • 1871The first Rugby Union International results in a 1–0 win, by Scotland over England.source
  • 1874March 25–27 – Third Carlist War: Second Battle of Somorrostro – In a renewed attempt to raise the siege of Bilbao by Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano himself arrives with 27,000 men and 70 cannons. However, in three days of fierce fighting, the Carlist General Joaquín Elío, with just 17,000 men, once again drives off the attack at nearby Somorrostro, and it is another six weeks before Serrano manages to relieve Bilbao.source
  • 1878In anticipation of war with Russia, Disraeli mobilizes British reserves, and calls up Indian troops to Malta.source
  • 1881in Basingstoke, antagonism between the Salvation Army and supporters of the licensed trade becomes so great that the Riot Act is read and troops are called in to restore order.source
  • 1884March 27–29 – Cincinnati riots of 1884.source
  • 1890Preston North End finish the second season of the Football League as title winners once again.source
  • 1890March 1890 middle Mississippi Valley tornado outbreak: 24 significant tornadoes are spawned by one system, including one that kills 76 people in Louisville, Kentucky.source
  • 1890A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 people and injuring 200.source
  • 1890Preston North End retain the English Football League Championship, winning their final game at Notts Countysource
  • 189727 March Scotland 5–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)source
  • 1898March 27 Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula or Pavlov Agreement for Russian Daliansource
  • 1899Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmits a radio signal across the English Channel.source
  • 1900Li Hongzhang, Viceroy of Liangguang, provinces reported to the central government that some of the gangsters in Hong Kong wanted to attack the provincial capital, and secretly demanded that the Governor of Hong Kong to ban.source
  • 1908The first Scout troop outside the U.K. is formed in Gibraltar.source
  • 1910A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312 people after ballroom decorations catch alight.source
  • 1912Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki gives 3,000 Cherry blossom trees to be planted in Washington, D.C., to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.source
  • 1914Belgian surgeon Albert Hustin makes the first successful non-direct blood transfusion, using anticoagulants.source
  • 1921Easter Crisis: Charles IV returns to Hungary at Szombathelysource
  • 192227 March – 2 April – 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)source
  • 1927C.D. Vendaval Apopa, a Salvadoran football club, was established.source
  • 1929The opening of Gueiren Agriculture School in Tainan Prefecture.source
  • 1931A real estate brand, Shōei Corporation was founded, as predecessor for Hullic.source
  • 1933Japan announces it will leave the League of Nations (due to a cancellation period of exactly two years, the egression becomes effective March 27, 1935).source
  • 1934Musa al-Husayni (born 1853), Palestinian Arab politician and leader of the Palestinian Arab national movement from 1922 until 1934. He never recovered from the beating he received from the Palestine Police in Jaffa five months earlier.source
  • 1938Italian mathematician Ettore Majorana disappears suddenly under mysterious circumstances, while travelling by ship from Palermo to Naples.source
  • 1939Abdul Rahim al Hajj Mohammed, a Palestinian leader was ambushed and killed by the British Army.source
  • 1943WWII: British Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Dasher is destroyed by an accidental explosion in the Firth of Clyde, killing 379 of the crew of 528.source
  • 1944In Sweden, Ruben Rausing patents Erik Wallenberg's method of packaging milk in paper, origin of the international company Tetra Pak.source
  • 1949March 25–28 — Operation Priboisource
  • 1952A legislative Assembly election is held in Coorg.source
  • 1952Konrad Adenauer survives an assassination attempt organized by members of a small underground group connected to Irgun, an Israeli militant Zionist organization.source
  • 1957The 29th Academy Awards Ceremony is held in Hollywood. Around the World in 80 Days wins Best Picture.source
  • 1964March 27 (Good Friday) – The Great Alaskan earthquake, the second-most powerful known (and the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history) at a magnitude of 9.2, strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.source
  • 1964Several towns in coastal British Columbia, including Prince Rupert, Tofino, Port Alberni and Zeballos, suffer damage from tsunamis associated with the Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. Overall damage is estimated at $10 million.source
  • 19692000 Weeks (directed by Tim Burstall) is released. The film was one of the first features of the modern era in Australian cinema, although it was received poorly both critically and commercially.source
  • 1971East Pakistan's independence is declared by army major (later president of Bangladesh) Ziaur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station.source
  • 1972March 23–April 2 – A 47-member expedition conducted by Presidential Assistant for National Minorities (Panamin) which has been headed by Manuel Elizalde Jr., mostly scientists and later joined by one of the agency's directors—American Charles Lindbergh, makes a first visit to the caves inhabited by 25 "surviving" Tasadays, a group of Stone Age-style people discovered in June 1971, in an isolated mountain rainforest in South Cotabato—the "first discovery of cavemen in modern times." The expedition ends as explorers are rescued by the United States Armed Forces.source
  • 1972The Soviet Union launches Venera 8, which will make the first soft landing on Venus.source
  • 1973At the 45th Academy Awards, The Godfather wins best picture.source
  • 1976The South African Defence Force withdraws from Angola and concludes Operation Savannah.source
  • 1976The first 7.4 km of the Washington Metro subway system opens.source
  • 1977Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 people. This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.source
  • 1980The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.source
  • 1984Starlight Express opens at Apollo Victoria Theatre in London.source
  • 1986Russell Street Bombing: A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police Headquarters in Russell Street, Melbourne, killing a woman constable, the first Australian policewoman to be killed in the line of duty.source
  • 1990The United States begins broadcasting Radio y Televisión Martí to Cuba.source
  • 1993Following a rash of integrist murders (including those of foreigners), Algeria breaks diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the country of interfering in its interior affairs.source
  • 1994TV tycoon Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition wins the Italian general election.source
  • 1994The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States; one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama.source
  • 1996Egyptian hijackers commandeer an Egyptian passenger flight in Luxor and land it in Martubah, Libya, demanding a meeting with world leaders. The hijackers released the 152 passengers unharmed and surrendered to the Libyan military.source
  • 1999Kosovo War: A U.S. Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is shot down by Yugoslav forces.source
  • 2002A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 people and injures 140 others at a hotel in Netanya, Israel.source
  • 2006Newspaper Rakyat Merdeka publishes a cartoon depicting the Australian prime minister and foreign minister as copulating dingoes in response to the West Papuan refugee crisissource
  • 2007Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov sign a border treaty between Latvia and Russia, officially demarcating the border between the two.source
  • 2014Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is confirmed as second-in-line to the Saudi Arabian throne.source
  • 2020North Macedonia becomes a full member of NATO.source
  • 2021A British expatriate is reported killed in an attack by jihadists on Palma, according to The Daily Telegraph. Dozens of expatriates are reported killed, and there are reports of beheadings of children as young as eleven years old.source
  • 2022The M23 offensive begins in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.source
  • 2023March 24–27 – A tornado outbreak kills at least 26 people in Mississippi and Alabama. This includes a violent tornado which devastated the city of Rolling Fork and the town of Silver City in Mississippi, killing 16 people and injuring 165 others.source
  • 2024Don Saunders, the deputy chair of the Free National Movement, is fatally shot in a robbery in Gambier Village, west of Nassau.source

Births

  • 347Saint Jerome, priest and translator of the Bible (approximate date)source
  • 972Robert II (the Pious), king of France (died 1031)source
  • 1196Sviatoslav III, Kievan Grand Prince (died 1252)source
  • 1254Hkun Law, Burmese ruler of Martaban (died 1311)source
  • 1401Albert III, Duke of Bavaria-Munich (died 1460)source
  • 1416Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (died 1480)source
  • 1492Adam Ries, German mathematician (died 1559)source
  • 1509Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, German nobleman (died 1578)source
  • 1606Hans Svane, statesman (died 1668)source
  • 1627Sir Stephen Fox, English politician (died 1716)source
  • 1676Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian rebel against the Habsburgs (died 1735)source
  • 1685Simon Hatley, English sailor (died 1723)source
  • 1765Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher, theologian (died 1841)source
  • 1784Jonathan Jennings, American politician and the first governor of Indiana (died 1834)source
  • 1785Louis XVII of France (died 1795)source
  • 1803Charles Lafontaine, Swiss mesmerist (died 1892)source
  • 1809Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner (died 1891)source
  • 1812William Robinson (Canadian architect), Canadian architect and land surveyor (died 1894)source
  • 1845Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1923)source
  • 1857Karl Pearson, English statistician (died 1936)source
  • 1863Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (died 1933)source
  • 1910Hugh Nibley, American scholar and Latter-day Saint apologist (died 2005)source
  • 1912James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 2005)source
  • 1948Manuel Veiga, writersource

Deaths

  • 710Rupert, bishop of Salzburgsource
  • 853Haymo, bishop of Halberstadtsource
  • 913Du Xiao, chancellor of Later Liangsource
  • 913Zhang, empress of Later Liangsource
  • 916Alduin I, Frankish noblemansource
  • 973Hermann Billung, Frankish noblemansource
  • 1023Gebhard I, bishop of Regensburgsource
  • 1165Awn al-Din ibn Hubayra, Abbasid vizier (born 1105)source
  • 1168Patrick of Salisbury, Norman nobleman (born 1122)source
  • 1168Patrick of Salisbury, Angevin governor of Poitou, is killed in an ambush at Poitiers by French forces under Guy of Lusignan. He is escorting Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine on a journey near the border of Aquitaine. Patrick's nephew, William Marshal, is part of the royal escort and is taken prisoner. Later he is ransomed and becomes a member of Eleanor's household.source
  • 1174Gilla Meic Liac mac Diarmata, Archbishop of Armaghsource
  • 1180Al-Mustadi, caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate (born 1142)source
  • 1184George III, king of Georgia (House of Bagrationi)source
  • 1221Berengaria of Portugal, queen consort of Denmark (born 1198)source
  • 1224William of Sainte-Mère-Église, Norman bishopsource
  • 1237John of Brienne (John I), king of Jerusalemsource
  • 1248Maud Marshal, English noblewoman (born 1192)source
  • 1329Pope John XXII issues a bull condemning some teachings of Meister Eckhart (who died last year) as heretical.source
  • 1378Pope Gregory XI (born c. 1329)source
  • 1378Pope Gregory XI dies at the Vatican in Rome after a little more than seven years as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and shortly after moving the church leadership back to Rome from the French city of Avignon. Officials of Rome begin a campaign of intimidation to prevent the Roman Catholic cardinals, a majority of whom are French, from electing a French cardinal as Gregory's successor.source
  • 1435Spytek z Tarnowa i Jarosławia, Polish noblemansource
  • 1462Vasily II of Moscow, Grand Prince of Moscow (born 1415)source
  • 1482The death of Mary of Burgundy triggers the first of the Flemish revolts against Maximilian of Austria.source
  • 1482Mary of Burgundy, Sovereign Duchess regnant of Burgundy, married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1457)source
  • 1489Gilbert Kennedy, 1st Lord Kennedy, Scottish noble (born 1405)source
  • 1564Lütfi Pasha, Albanian-born Ottoman statesman, juridical scholar and poet of slave origin (born c. 1488)source
  • 1613Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (born 1572)source
  • 1615Margaret of Valois, Queen of France (born 1553)source
  • 1615Margaret of Valois, dowager queen of France (born 1553)source
  • 1624Ulrik of Denmark, Danish prince-bishop (born 1578)source
  • 1625King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (born 1566)source
  • 1629George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, English noble, general and administrator (born 1555)source
  • 1635Robert Naunton, English politician (born 1563)source
  • 1635Robert Naunton, politician (born 1563)source
  • 1679Abraham Mignon, Dutch golden age painter (born 1640)source
  • 1697Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (born 1604)source
  • 1699Edward Stillingfleet, British theologian and scholar (born 1635)source
  • 1714Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (born 1633)source
  • 1714Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Queen Consort of Denmark (1670–1699) (born 1650)source
  • 1745Tommaso Crudeli, Florentine free thinker imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition (born 1702)source
  • 1765Arthur Dobbs, Irish politician and governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina (born 1689)source
  • 1770Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian artist (born 1696)source
  • 1772Taylor White, British judge (born 1701)source
  • 1830Luis Antonio Argüello former governor of Alta California died in San Franciscosource
  • 1878Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (born 1811)source
  • 1898Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian university founder (born 1817)source
  • 1931Arnold Bennett, British novelist (born 1867)source
  • 1954The Castle Romeo nuclear test explosion is executed at Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands.source
  • 1968Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, first human in space (born 1934)source
  • 1982Fazlur Rahman Khan, structural engineer and architect (born 1929)source
  • 2006Rudolf Vrba, 82, Canadian pharmacologist, Auschwitz escapee and contributor to the Auschwitz Protocol, cancer.source