On This Day:
Thursday March 27, 2014 This is the 86th day of the year, with 279 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Clue ™ Clue (Cluedo outside the United States) is a murder mystery board game set in an English country mansion and was originally published by Waddington Games in 1948. It was devised by Anthony Pratt, a law clerk from Birmingham, England. Parker Brothers obtained the rights to produce Clue in the United States and was purchased by Hasbro in 1991. The players represent guests staying at the mansion, whose owner, Mr. Boddy (Dr. Black outside the United States), has been found murdered. The solution to the mystery contains the three components of Room, Suspect, and Weapon. The rooms include the kitchen, ballroom, conservatory, dining room, billiard room, library, lounge, hall, and study; suspects are Miss Scarlett, Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard, Rev. Green, Mrs. White, and Mrs. Peacock, and the weapons include rope, lead pipe, knife, wrench, candlestick, and revolver.
Holidays Feast day of St. Rupert, St. Athilda, and St. John of Egypt.
Myanmar/Burma: Army Day / Resistance Day.
Luxembourg: Osweiler.
Events 1512 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida.
1703 - Czar Peter the Great founded the city of St. Petersburg.
1794 - President George Washington and Congress authorized creation of the U.S. Navy.
1860 - The corkscrew was patented by M. L. Byrn of New York.
1884 - The first long-distance telephone call was made, between Boston and New York City.
1899 - Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio signals, across the English Channel.
1912 - The wife of President William Howard Taft planted cherry trees on the bank of the Potomac River, in an event celebrating a gift by the Japanese government of 3,020 cherry trees to the U.S. government.
1917 - The Seattle Metropolitans became the first U.S. team to win the Stanley Cup as they defeated the Montreal Canadiens.
1920 - Film stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were married.
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became Soviet premier in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.
1964 - The strongest earthquake in American history, measuring 8.4 on the Richter scale, occurred in southern Alaska, creating a deadly tsunami; 114 people were killed and thousands injured.
1998 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the impotency drug Viagra, made by Pfizer.
Births 1813 - Nathaniel Currier, American lithographer: Currier & Ives.
1845 - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered X-rays.
1863 - Sir Henry Royce, founder of Rolls-Royce Ltd., with C.S. Rolls.
1924 - Sarah Vaughan (The Divine One), American jazz singer.
Deaths 1923 - James Dewar, Scottish physicist and chemist who invented the thermos flask.
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