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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Tatmadaw Day in Myanmar | refimprove |
| 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a leading British Whig Party statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as prime minister of Great Britain. | unreferenced section |
| 1794 – To protect American merchant ships from Barbary pirates, Congress passed the Naval Act to authorize the building of six frigates, which eventually became the U.S. Navy. | Date not in source cited |
| 1814 – In central Alabama, U.S. and Native American forces under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. | refimprove section |
| 1851 – Explorer Lafayette Bunnell and other members of the Mariposa Battalion became the non-indigenous discoverers of California's Yosemite Valley. | unreferenced section |
| 1915 – Mary Mallon (pictured), the first person to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, was placed into quarantine in New York City, where she spent the rest of her life. | improve citations |
| 1964 – The 9.2 Mw Good Friday earthquake, the strongest in U.S. history, and subsequent tsunamis devastated Anchorage, Alaska, killing over 130 people. | Too much uncited |
| 1977 – Two Boeing 747 airliners collided on a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife, killing 583 people in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history. | Too much uncited |
| 1993 – Jiang Zemin succeeded Yang Shangkun to become President of the People's Republic of China. | refimprove |
| 2009 – A suicide bomber killed at least 48 people during Friday prayer at a mosque in Jamrud, Pakistan. | Source and article inconsistencies re death toll |
| Domenico Lalli |b|1679| | Birthday not cited |
| Jane Colden |b|1724| | Birthday not cited |
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- 1638 – The first of four destructive earthquakes struck southern Italy, destroying an estimated 10,000 homes.
- 1836 – At least 425 Texian prisoners of war were executed in the Goliad massacre, under orders from Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1850 – San Diego, the first European settlement in present-day California, was incorporated as a city.
- 1941 – World War II: A group of Serbian-nationalist officers of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force carried out a coup d'état after Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.
- 1945 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began Operation Starvation, laying naval mines in many of Japan's vital water routes and ports to disrupt enemy shipping.
- 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, assumed the office of premier.
- 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, an oil pipeline spanning the length of Alaska, began.
- 1976 – The Washington Metro, the second-busiest rapid transit system in the U.S., opened to commuters.
- 1980 – Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt failed in their attempt to corner the world silver market, causing panic in commodity and futures exchanges.
- 1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike, the largest in the history of the Eastern Bloc, in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.
- 2002 – Second Intifada: A suicide bomber killed around 30 Israeli civilians and injured about 140 others in Netanya, triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorist military incursion into the West Bank.
- 2009 – A failure of the dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Tangerang, Indonesia, caused floods that killed at least 100 people.
- 2015 – Himeji Castle (pictured), the largest and most visited Japanese castle, re-opened after five years of restoration work.
- Born/died this day: |Sigismund Báthory |d|1613| Simon Bradstreet |d|1697| Alexander Vostokov |b|1781| Rosa Campbell Praed |b|1851| Jan van Beers |b|1852|Thomas Graham Brown |b|1882|Kick Kelly |d|1926| Michael Joseph Savage |d|1940| Julia Alvarez |b|1950| Mariah Carey |b|1969| Mother Angelica |d|2016
March 27: Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania (1918)
Ball-and-stick model of sildenafil
- 1884 – Outraged by a jury's decision to convict a man of manslaughter instead of murder, a mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, began three days of rioting.
- 1899 – Philippine–American War: American forces defeated troops commanded by Philippine president Emilio Aguinaldo at the Battle of Marilao River.
- 1998 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug sildenafil (chemical structure pictured), better known by the trade name Viagra, for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
- 1999 – During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an Army of Yugoslavia unit shot down a U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft.
- 2020 – North Macedonia became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
- Jonathan Jennings (b. 1784)
- Doug Wilkerson (b. 1947)
- Elisheva Bikhovski (d. 1949)
- T. Sailo (d. 2015)