March 27
Today in America's Present Past
1513 | Explorer Juan Ponce de León first sighted Florida.
1794 | The U.S. Navy was established.
1813 | Publisher Nathaniel Currier was born.
1814 | Indian Wars: Battle at Horseshoe Bend, Dadeville, Alabama.
1836 | Texas-Mexican War: The Goliad massacre.
1844 | Explorer Adolphus Washington Greely was born.
1866 | Civil Rights: Democratic President Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act, which later became the 14th Amendment.
1866 | Entrepreneur Andrew Rankin patented the urinal.
1899 | Actress Gloria Swanson was born.
1910 | Composer David Duffle Wood died.
1912 | POTUS: First Lady Taft planted the first two Yoshino cherry trees on the bank of the Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C.
1914 | Author Budd Schulberg was born.
1915 | Typhoid Mary (Mallon) was arrested for evading public health officials in New York and placed in quarantine for the rest of her life.
1916 | Educator Susan Blow died.
1918 | Author Henry Brooks Adams died.
1926 | Author Frank O’Hara was born.
1937 | Painter Thomas Aquinas Daly was born.
1939 | Racer Cale Yarborough was born.
1945 | WWII: General Eisenhower declared German forces beaten on the Western Front.
1947 | Journalist Walt Mossberg was born.
1963 | Director Quentin Tarantino was born.
1964 | The “Good Friday Earthquake” magnitude 9.2 struck Alaska.
1969 | Entertainer Mariah Carey was born.
1975 | Musician Fergie was born.
1976 | Washington, D.C. underground Metro opened.
1980 | Mount St. Helens had its first recorded phreatic eruption.
1999 | Michigan State University students riot in East Lansing, Michigan.
2002 | Comedian Milton Berle died.
2006 | Journalist Lyn Nofziger died.
2020 | POTUS: Republican President Trump signed a 2.2 trillion government spending bill.
2024 | Politician Joe Lieberman died.