03-26-2011, 08:52 PM
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March 27th
1836 ~ Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
1845 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, physicist, awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics.
1863 ~ Birthday of Sir Henry Royce, automobile pioneer.
1871 ~ First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1958 ~ Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the USSR.
1968 ~ Death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
1972 ~ Death of M. C. Escher, Dutch artist.
1977 ~ A KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on the Canary Island of Tenerife, killing 582 people.
2002 ~ Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber killed 28 people in Netanya, Israel.
2006 ~ Death of Stanisław Lem, Polish writer.
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