On This Day:
Friday March 27, 2015 This is the 86th day of the year, with 279 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: cattle driving A cattle driver is a drover. A cattle roundup was a drift. A cattle stall is a crib. To drive cattle with a rod is to goad. A headlong rush of cattle is a stampede.
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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