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1841 - The first steam fire engine was tested in New York City. The test of the eight-ton engine was successful and it was approved by officials, but the firemen of NYC saw the engine as a threat to them (and their hand-engines) and it was never put into successful service.1860 - The device which, officially, is a “covered gimlet screw with a ‘T’ handle”, or corkscrew, was patented this day by M. L. Byrn of New York City.
1912 - First Lady Helen (Nellie) Taft, wife of U.S. President William Howard Taft, and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, planted the first two cherry trees in Washington DC. The trees are Yoshino cherries, and are still standing several hundred yards west of the John Paul Jones statue at the south end of 17th Street.
1931 - From the Put Foot in Mouth Department: New York Giant’s Manager John McGraw told reporters that night baseball would never supplant baseball in its natural setting, under a warm sun.
1943 - Pabst Blue Ribbon Town was first heard on CBS radio. The show lasted only a year, but it became widely known as the program that introduced audiences to the one, the only, Groucho Marx.
1945 - Ella Fitzgerald and the Delta Rhythm Boys recorded the classic, It’s Only a Paper Moon for Decca Records.
1945 - Nazi Germany launched its last V2 rocket at Great Britain from The Hague in the Netherlands (it crashed in Orpington, southeast of London). During WWII, 2,754 people were killed and 6,523 were injured in V2 rocket attacks on London.
1950 - Jazz pianist Erroll Garner became one of the first jazz instrumentalists to give a solo concert. He played the Music Hall in Cleveland, OH. In 1954, Garner would gain international applause for writing and recording a standard that has been presented many times since: Misty. Johnny Mathis and Sarah Vaughan are but two of many recording artists to offer vocal renditions of this renowned Garner composition. Play Misty for me.
1951 - Frank Sinatra recorded I’m a Fool to Want You for Columbia. This was one of the last songs Sinatra recorded for Mitch Miller, who had taken over as head of recording for the label.
1955 - Steve McQueen made his network TV debut on Goodyear Television Playhouse. McQueen starred in The Chivington Raid. In 1958, McQueen was starred in his own TV series, Wanted Dead or Alive, on NBC.
1957 - Jerry Lewis (in Hollywood) and actress Celeste Holm (in New York City) hosted the 29th Annual Academy Awards at the RKO Pantages Theater, Los Angeles. Looking at the list of winners and nominees, it seems as if 1956 was the year for bigger-than-life extravaganzas, epics and star-studded casts from the Best Picture, Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Todd, producer), to Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments. Others of that genre included The Rainmaker; Richard III; The Bad Seed; King Vidor’s War and Peace; and High Society; Written on the Wind, The King and I and Anastasia. Around the World in 80 Days received additional accolades for Best Writing/Best Screenplay - Adapted (James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman); Best Cinematography/Color (Lionel Lindon); Best Film Editing (Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax); and Best Music/Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Victor Young). The Oscar for Best Director went to George Stevens for Giant. Best Actor was Yul Brynner for The King and I and the Best Actress prize was given to Ingrid Bergman for Anastasia. Anthony Quinn was Best Supporting Actor in for Lust for Life and Dorothy Malone was Best Supporting Actress in Written on the Wind. The Best Music/Song Oscar was awarded to Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) from The Man Who Knew Too Much.
1958 - CBS Laboratories announced a new stereophonic record that was playable on ordinary LP phonographs, meaning, monaural. In stereo, on the proper equipment, a new rich and fuller sound was heard. It eventually became a standard for record and equipment buyers.
1964 - The strongest earthquake (8.6 on the Richter Scale) to strike North America hit 80 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska. The quake was followed by seismic wave 50 feet high that traveled 8,445 miles at 450 miles per hour; 117 killed, caused close to $500 million damage. Of 131 deaths in the disaster, 119 were caused by the tsunami.
1968 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin died in a plane crash. He was 34 years old. Gagarin was the first man to orbit the Earth.
1970 - Joe Cocker played his first American concert (as headliner). He entertained fans at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East in New York City.
1971 - UCLA became the first team ever to win five consecutive NCAA basketball titles. The Bruins defeated Villanova 68-62. UCLA, under coaching legend John Wooden, dominated NCAA tournament play until 1974, when North Carolina State won the tourney. The Bruins roared back in one season to win the championship once more.
1971 - Janis Joplin started her second (and final) week at the top of the pop music charts with the hit, Me and Bobby McGee, written by Kris Kristofferson.
1972 - Adolph Rupp of the the University of Kentucky retired after 42 years of coaching the Wildcats. During his long tenure at Kentucky, Rupp won 874 games for a winning average of 82.1 percent. Rupp was second only to Clair Bee who coached at Rider College in New Jersey and at Long Island University.
1973 - It was Oscar night (for the 45th time) at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was hosted by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston and Rock Hudson. Most people, when offered an Academy Award, can’t get up to the stage fast enough to claim the little gold guy. But, Marlon Brando said, “You can keep it," when AMPAS offered him the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance as The Godfather. Brando refused to accept the award because he felt that the U.S. and Hollywood were discriminating against American Indians. The Godfather (Albert S. Ruddy, producer) also was awarded the the prize for Best Picture. That Oscar was accepted, as were several for Cabaret: Best Director (Bob Fosse), Best Actress (Liza Minnelli) and Best Supporting Actor (Joel Grey). Best Supporting Actress was Eileen Heckart for Butterflies are Free and the Best Music/Song prize went to Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn for The Morning After from The Poseidon Adventure.
1975 - The construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline began at Sheep Creek Camp. The pipeline was completed May 31, 1977.
1977 - Aviation’s worst disaster [video] happened when a KLM Boeing 747 crashed into a Pan Am 747 on a runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife. All 248 on the KLM plane and 335 of 396 aboard Pan Am jet were killed. That total of 583 dead was the highest for any type of aviation disaster.
1978 - The musical revue, Dancin’, opened at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre on this day. Directed by Bob Fosse, who won a Tony Award for the choreography, Dancin’ ran for 1,774 performances, taking it all the way to June 27, 1982.
1979 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (Delaware v. Prouse) that police cannot stop motorists at random to check licenses and registrations unless there is reason to believe a law has been broken.
1980 - Mount St. Helens became active this day. An explosive steam eruption of the volcano in southwestern Washington State was the first activity since 1857. (It erupted on May 18, 1980, in one of the most violent volcanic eruptions ever recorded in North America.)
1985 - Billy Dee Williams received a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. His place, for those looking to visit, is located between Joan Davis and Harry Carey.
1990 - The U.S. began test broadcasts of TV Marti to Cuba, which promptly jammed the signal.
1991 - U.S. President George Bush (I) publicly disagreed with General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who had claimed he had urged further fighting in the Persian Gulf War at the time Bush ordered a cease-fire. (Schwarzkopf later apologized to Bush.)
1995 - OK, into the limousine, as we head for the 67th Annual Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. David Letterman was the host at these awards for the motion pictures of 1994. The Best Picture was Forrest Gump (Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, Steve Tisch, producers). Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks won Oscars for Best Director and Best Actor, respectively, in ... you got it ... Forrest Gump. The Best Actress prize was claimed by Jessica Lange for Blue Sky. Best Supporting Actor was Martin Landau for Ed Wood and the Best Supporting Actress award went to Dianne Wiest for Bullets Over Broadway. The Best Music/Song Oscar went to Elton John (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics) for the fine job they did for the animated movie, The Lion King, with the song, Can You Feel the Love Tonight.
1996 - An Israeli court convicted of murder the (confessed) assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The court then sentenced former law student Yigal Amir to life in prison.
1997 - Dexter King, son of Martin Luther King Jr., met with James Earl Ray, the man in prison for the assassination of the civil rights leader. Ray denied having anything to do with the shooting, to which King replied, “I believe you.”
1998 - Ferry (Ferdinand) Porsche, who created the sports car that bears his name, died at age 88 in Zell am See, Austria.
1998 - These films opened in the U.S.: Meet The Deedles, starring Paul Walker, Steve Van Wormer and Dennis Hopper; and The Newton Boys, with Matthew Mcconaughey, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'onofrio and Skeet Ulrich.
1998 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer, saying it helped about two-thirds of impotent men improve their sexual function.
1999 - Maria Butyrskaya of Russia won the World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Defending champion Michelle Kwan of the U.S. finished second.
2000 - DaimlerChrysler AG announced it would buy 34 percent of Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors Corporation.
2002 - Thirty people were killed and 140 injured in a suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel. Some 250 diners were present for the Passover holiday seder when a terrorist walked into the crowded dining room of the hotel and detonated an explosive device.
2002 - Milton Berle died at 93 years of age. Berle, known as Uncle Miltie and Mr. Television, rose to TV stardom as the host of the Texaco Star Theater beginning in 1948.
2003 - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Zindel died in New York City. He was 66 years old.
2004 - Deaths on this day: French author Robert Merle, at 95 years of age; his books include The Day of the Dolphin -- and 87-year-old Edward J. Piszek, founder of Mrs. Paul’s Kitchens.
2005 - Pope John Paul II delivered an Easter Sunday blessing to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square. The ailing 84-year-old pontiff was unable to speak and managed only to greet the saddened crowd with a sign of the cross.
2006 - Shooting Dogs, a film on Rwanda’s genocide, reduced many survivors to tears at its premiere in Kigali. The film’s title refers to the way UN troops shot dogs eating the corpses that littered the streets of the Rwandan capital. President Paul Kagame said the movie would help to ensure memories of the mass murder were kept alive.
2007 - Sportkill debuted in U.S. theatres. The horror thriller stars Dona Wood, David C. Hayes and Jose Rosete.
2007 - Police in Mexico City kicked off a campaign to exchange guns for computers and other gifts in an attempt to reduce firearm deaths.
2007 - The U.S. Justice Dept. announced that ITT Corporation had agreed to pay a $100-million penalty for illegally sending classified night-vision technology to China and other countries.
2007 - Paul Lauterbur died from kidney disease at 77 years of age. Lauterbur shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing a way to create noninvasive images of the human body with nuclear magnetic resonance -- the system known as MRI.
2008 - Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders released his 15-minute film Fitna, which linked verses of the Koran to violent images from terrorist attacks. The Dutch MP (Member of Parliament) had upset the Muslim world before, by calling for a ban on the Koran and likening it to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The Janky Promoters, with Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Terry Crews and Young Jeezy; and the animated Monsters vs. Aliens, featuring the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Kiefer Sutherland and Paul Rudd.
2009 - The Red River rose to a daunting 112-year high and breached one of the dikes fortifying Fargo, North Dakota. But Fargo’s mayor pledged to continue fighting the elements as he ordered more evacuations and additional National Guard troops to prevent a devastating flood. Mayor Dennis Walaker said, “We do not want to give up yet. We want to go down swinging if we go down.”
2009 - 95-year-old Jack Dreyfus, founder of the Dreyfus Fund in 1951, died in NYC. His fund helped establish the retail mutual-fund business.
2010 - A two-day Arab League summit opened in Sirte, Libya. Amr Moussa, the head of the Arab League, urged the 22-nation bloc to engage Iran directly over concerns about its growing influence in the region and its disputed nuclear program.
2011 - Israel deployed a rocket defense system, hoping the homegrown Iron Dome system would provide increased security for its citizens. The deployment raised hopes that Israel had found a solution to the years of rocket fire from Gaza.
2012 - The U.S. set its first-ever limits on ‘heat-trapping pollution’ from new power plants. “The standard will check the previously uncontrolled amount (of carbon pollution) that power plants ... release into our atmosphere,” Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said in a conference call with reporters Tuesday. But “it also creates a path forward for future facilities to use technology that burns coal, while releasing less carbon pollution.”
2013 - Egypt’s naval forces captured three scuba divers who were trying to cut an undersea Internet cable in the Mediterranean off Alexandria, Egypt. The incident caused a flurry of speculation that the network of cables carrying the bulk of the world’s Internet traffic could be at risk of sabotage. But Mark Simpson, the CEO of SEACOM, which owns the SEACOM cable system, said, “I don’t expect to see a rash of sabotage. It’s not the kind of thing that keeps people like me awake at night.” Sleepy or not, no motive was immediately apparent for the cable sabotage.
2014 - Southern California police served two dozen search warrants and made multiple arrests targeting thefts from baggage at Los Angeles International Airport. Baggage handlers (those arrested did not directly work for the airport) had pilfered electronics, jewelry, etc. for months in the largest baggage theft operation in the history of the airport.
2014 - Russia’s President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would develop its own credit card system to reduce reliance on Western-based companies and soften the potential blow from U.S. and E.U. sanctions. Both Visa and MasterCard had blocked the accounts of cardholders at BankRossiya and SMF Bank, both of which were sanctioned by the U.S. over Russia’s involvement in Crimea. In April 2014 the Russian government established a national clearing system as a separate corporation controlled by the Central Bank of Russia (CBR). The National Payment Card System (NPCS) was designed to process all card payments inside the country. And China UnionPay jumped into the Russian market in August 2014.
2015 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Get Hard, starring Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart and Alison Brie; the animated Home, featuring the voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Matt Jones; Cupcakes, with Dana Ivgy, Keren Berger and Yael Bar-Zohar; A Girl Like Her, with Jimmy Bennett, Hunter King and Lexi Ainsworth; A Little Chaos, starring Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Stanley Tucci; Nightlight, with Shelby Young, Chloe Bridges and Carter Jenkins; The Riot Club, starring Sam Claflin, Max Irons and Douglas Booth; The Salt of the Earth, with Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado; and While We’re Young, starring Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried and Ben Stiller.
2015 - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton advised a U.S. House of Representatives panel that she had permanently deleted all e-mails from the private server she had used to conduct official business. The statement infuriated Republicans on the panel.
2016 - The Pavlof Volcano erupted in southwestern Alaska sending ash 20,000 feet into the air. There was about 30 minutes warning before the unexpected eruption began.
2016 - A 15-year-old Japanese girl escaped from Kabu Terauchi’s apartment in downtown Tokyo while he was shopping in Akihabara. The girl had been held captive for nearly two years. Police captured Terauchi in the early hours of March 28 near a forest west of Tokyo.
2017 - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 15 days behind bars and fined after staging the biggest anti-corruption protests in years, an act branded a “provocation” by Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. The most striking thing about those protests was the make-up of the crowds, which included significant numbers of young people, even schoolchildren.
2018 - Waymo, formerly known as the Google self-driving car project, announced a partnership with Jaguar Land Rover to build self-driving Jaguar luxury SUVs for the company’s autonomous Silicon Valley taxi fleet.
2018 - Hundreds of taxis brought traffic to a standstill in Brussels, Belgium as the cabbies protested proposed government reforms said that favored ride-hailing competitors like Uber. Some 650 taxis took part in the protest, setting off fireworks and blocking traffic on major roads in and around the Belgian capital, including outside the European Union’s headquarters.
2018 - Australia and Ireland joined the wave of nations and groups expelling Russian diplomats over the nerve-agent poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain. The mass expulsions were a show of solidarity for Britain, which blames Russia for the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
2019 - India shot down one of its satellites in space with an anti-satellite missile. The government said it was a test to protect India’s assets in space against foreign attacks.
2019 - Australia’s top cyberwarrior reported that his country had actively participated in an electronic war against the Islamic State group in Syria. The director-general of the government-run Australian Signals Directorate, Mike Burgess, said Australia’s attacks degraded IS communications during military operations and actively stopped people seeking to join the extremist group.
2020 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: Mulan, starring Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen and Jet Li; Emperor, with James Cromwell, Bruce Dern and Kat Graham; Military Wives, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan and Jason Flemyng; Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris and Edgar Ramírez; and Vivarium, with Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots and Jonathan Aris.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $2-trillion coronavirus economic stimulus bil. POTUS Trump was expected to sign it quickly. The U.S. had almost 86,000 known infections at this point. The single biggest portion of money in the package was a large pot aimed at industry rescues, but with no guardrails to ensure that public money was directed toward saving the jobs, wages, and benefits of typical workers rather than the wealth of shareholders, creditors, and corporate executives. 2)British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock tested positive for the coronavirus. British fatalities jumped by 260, to 1,019. Some 14,579 people in the U.K. had tested positive. 3)Italy registered the most coronavirus deaths since the country’s outbreak five weeks earlier, adding 969 more victims to raise the world’s highest COVID-19 toll to 9,134. 4)Four passengers died aboard the Zaandam cruise ship, anchored off the coast of Panama.
2020 - A U.S. federal appeals court ruled that undocumented immigrants who presented a credible case or asylum in the U.S. were entitled to a prompt hearing for release on bond while their cases were pending.
2021 - China and Iran signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement. The accord brought Iran into China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure scheme intended to stretch from East Asia to Europe.
2021 - Mexico’s government acknowledged that the country’s death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic was above 321,000.
2022 - 94th Academy Awards show: Will Smith strode onstage and slapped Chris Rock in the face after the comedian made a joke about the actor’s wife while presenting the award for the winning documentary. Picture of the year for 2021 went to CODA, about a hearing child with deaf parents. The top acting awards were won by Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) and Will Smith (King Richard). Troy Kotsur became the first deaf man to win an acting Oscar for his role in CODA. Actresses Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wand Sykes hosted the show -- all for the first time. (For his slapping stunt, Smith was banned from attending any Academy events or programs for ten years.)
2022 - Israel began hosting a historic two-day summit with top diplomats from the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Bahrain. The talks centered on shared concerns, particularly over Iran, and food shortages brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine -- which are being felt in Egypt and Morocco. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the summit in the Negev would become a “regular forum,” noting that the coalition of Middle Eastern countries would help to deter Iran and its proxies. “This meeting is the first of its kind and not the last," said Lapid, standing alongside the foreign ministers of Morocco, Egypt, Bahrain, the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates. “What we are doing here is making history, building a new regional architecture based on progress, technology, religious tolerance, security and intelligence cooperation.”
2022 - Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a 90-minute-long Zoom interview to four prominent journalists from Russia, the country invading his. Several hours after that, the Russian telecommunications regulator released a statement directing Russian news outlets not to publish the interview. Journalists based outside Russia published it. Those still inside Russia did not.
2023 - Three students and three staff members were shot and killed at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the deadliest mass shooting in Tennessee history. The shooter, a 28-year-old transgender man and former student of the school, was shot and killed by police.
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Birthdays on This Day March 27
1797 - Alfred de Vigny
poet, novelist: Poemes, Cinq-Mars, Servitude et Grandeur Militaires; died Sep 17, 18631813 - Nathaniel Currier
lithographer: Currier & Ives hand-colored lithograph prints of 19th century daily life; died Nov 20, 18881845 - Wilhelm Röntgen (Röntgen)
Nobel Prize-winning scientist [1901]: discovered x-rays; died Feb 10, 19231868 - Patty Smith Hill
songwriter: Good Morning to All [predecessor of Happy Birthday to You]; died May 25, 19461879 - Edward Steichen
artist, photographer: U.S. Army supervisor of aerial photographic operations [WWI], Vogue, Vanity Fair, US Navy special unit of photographers shot naval aviation and combat [WWII], Director of Dept. of Photography at Museum of Modern Art, New York; died Mar 25, 19731892 - (James) Thorne Smith Jr.
author: Topper, Rain in the Doorway, The Stray Lamb; died June 21, 19341899 - Gloria Swanson (Gloria May Josephine Svensson)
actress: Airport ’75, Sadie Thompson, Sunset Boulevard, Teddy at the Throttle; author: Swanson on Swanson; died Apr 4, 19831903 - Betty Balfour
actress [‘The British Mary Pickford’]: Nothing Else Matters, Squibs, Mord Em’ly, 29 Acacia Avenue, The Vagabond Queen, The Sea Urchin, Squibs, Satan’s Sister; died Nov 4, 19771904 - Hal Kemp
bandleader: The Merrymakers: Moonlight Saving Time, Shuffle Off to Buffalo, Forty-Second Street, For All We Know, Hands Across the Table; died Dec 21, 19401906 - Pee Wee Russell
musician: saxophone, clarinet: Dinah, I’ve Found a New Baby, Anything for You, Oh No!, I Got ‘Em Again, But Why, What’s the Pitch, Midnight Blue; died Feb 15, 19691914 - Richard Denning (Denninger)
actor: Mr. & Mrs. North, Hawaii Five-O, Alice Through the Looking Glass, An Affair to Remember, Black Beauty, Creature from the Black Lagoon; died Oct 11, 19981914 - Snooky Lanson (Roy Landman)
singer: By the Light of the Silvery Moon; vocalist on Your Hit Parade on radio and TV; died July 2, 19901920 - Richard Hayman
musician: house conductor for Mercury Records; harmonica player: Ruby; Theme from The Three Penny Opera [Moritat]; died Feb 5, 20141921 - Fred Foy
radio, TV announcer: The Lone Ranger: “A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty ‘Hi Yo Silver!’ The Lone Ranger.”; died Dec 22, 20101924 - Sarah Vaughan
‘The Divine One’: jazz singer: Broken-Hearted Melody; Make Yourself Comfortable, Whatever Lola Wants, Passing Strangers [w/Billy Eckstine]; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award [1989]; died Apr 3, 19901927 - Anthony Lewis
author: Gideon’s Trumpet, Make No Law, The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment; died Mar 25, 20131927 - Mstislav (Leopold) Rostropovich
composer, musician: cello: his most important legacy is the large number of works written for him by greatest composers: Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Miaskovsky, Shostakovich, Britten, Lutoslawski, Bliss, Dutilleux; conductor: National Symphony Orchestra; humanitarian; died Apr 27, 20071931 - Burt Collins
jazz musician: trumpet, flugel horn: played w/Jess Roden Band, Lalo Schifrin, T. Rex; died Feb 24, 20071931 - David Janssen (David Harold Meyer)
actor: The Fugitive, The Green Berets, Two Minute Warning, Francis Goes to West Point, Once is Not Enough, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, O’Hara, U.S. Treasury, Harry O; died Feb 13, 19801932 - Wes Covington
baseball: baseball: Milwaukee Braves [World Series: 1957, 1958], Chicago White Sox, KC Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1966]; died Jul 4, 20111937 - Johnny Copeland
musician: guitar, singer: Further on Up the Road, That’s All Right, Cut Off My Right Arm, Excuses, Wella Wella Baby, Love Her with a Feeling; died July 3, 19971939 - Cale Yarborough
auto racer: Daytona 500 winner [1968, 1977, 1983, 1984]; died Dec 31, 20231940 - Austin Pendleton
actor: Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Guarding Tess, My Cousin Vinny, What’s Up Doc?, Petulia1940 - June Wilkinson
model [“the most photographed nude in America”]; actress: Three Bad Men, Keaton’s Cop, Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter, Qian li dan qi zhui xiong, The Candidate, The Continental Twist1941 - Bunny Sigler
singer: Love Train, Regina, Shake Your Booty, Sweeter Than the Berry, Picture Us, Your Love Is Good, Tossin’ and Turnin’; died Oct 6, 20171942 - Art Evans
actor: Die Hard 2, Fright Night, Fright Night II, M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues, Monk, Family Matters, A Soldier’s Story, Wilkie, Leadbelly, Bitter Harvest, Anderson’s Cross1942 - Michael York (York-Johnson)
actor: Cabaret, The Three Musketeers, Murder on the Orient Express, Logan’s Run, The Heat of the Day, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Wrongfully Accused, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me1946 - Bill (William Paul) ‘Suds’ Sudakis
baseball: LA Dodgers, NY Mets, Texas Rangers, NY Yankees, California Angels, Cleveland Indians1947 - Tom Sullivan
singer, composer: If You Could See What I Hear1947 - Doug Wilkerson
football: North Carolina Central, Houston Oilers, SD Chargers1950 - Tony Banks
musician: keyboards: group: Genesis1950 - Vic (Victor Lanier) Harris
baseball: Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, SL Cardinals, SF Giants, Milwaukee Brewers1951 - Bobby Lalonde
hockey: NHL: Vancouver Canucks, Atlanta Flames, Boston Bruins, Calgary Flames1952 - Maria Schneider
actress: Last Tango in Paris, Les Nuits Fauves; died Feb 3, 20111953 - Annemarie Moser-Proell
Olympic skiing champ: held all-time record six women’s World Cup championships, five in succession [1971-1975]1959 - Andrew Farriss
musician: keyboards, guitar: group: INXS: Just Keep Walking, The One Thing, Original Sin, Me, Melting in the Sun, This Time1963 - Randall Cunningham
football [quarterback]: Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, Baltimore Ravens1963 - Quentin Tarantino
Academy Award-winning screenwriter: Pulp Fiction [1994]; writer, director: From Dusk Till Dawn, Four Rooms, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vols 1&2, Grindhouse: Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood1966 - Paula Trickey
actress: Pacific Blue, Past Tense, McBride: Murder Past Midnight, The Base, A Kiss Goodnight, Carnal Crimes, Columbo: Columbo Cries Wolf, The O.C.1967 - Tom Hammonds
basketball [forward]: Georgia Tech Univ; NBA: Washington Wizards, Charlotte Hornets, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves1967 - Talisa Soto
model, actress: Mortal Kombat, La mission, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, Island of the Dead, That Summer in LA, The Corporate Ladder, Flypaper1969 - Pauley Perrette
actress: NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Satan Hates You, A Moment of Grace, Ash Tuesday, The Ring, My First Mister, Almost Famous, Hand on the Pump1970 - Mariah Carey
Grammy Award-winning singer: Vision of Love, Best New Artist [1991]; LPs: Mariah Carey, Emotions, MTV Unplugged, Music Box, Merry Christmas, Daydream, Butterfly, Rainbow; has sold more than 120 million albums and singles since her debut in 1990; only artist with a #1 single in every year of the 1990s; has spent more weeks at #1 than any other artist; more1970 - Elizabeth Mitchell
actress: Revolution, Lost, V, The Santa Clause 2, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, Gia, Running Scared, Answers to Nothing1971 - Nathan Fillion
actor: The Rookie, Castle, Firefly, Serenity, Slither and Trucker, Much Ado About Nothing, Desperate Housewives, Two Guys and a Girl; Internet: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog; video games Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach1971 - Matt Pegg
musician: bass guitar: group: Procol Harum; has played/recorded with Francis Dunnery, Ian Brown, Chris Difford; son of Jethro Tull bass guitarist Dave Pegg -- and has been known to stand in for his dad on Jethro Tull tours1972 - Kevin Hodson
hockey [goalie]: Detroit Red Wings, Tampa Bay Lightning1975 - Stacy ‘Fergie’ Ferguson
singer: group: The Black Eyed Peas: Hey Mama!, Dirty Dancing, True, Don’t Phunk With My Heart, Pump It, Where Is the Love, Shut Up; more1976 - Danny Fortson
basketball [forward, center]: Univ of Cincinnati; NBA: Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks, Seattle SuperSonics1979 - Louise Brealey
actress: Casualty, Sherlock, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Containment1979 - Michael Cuddyer
baseball [outfield]: Minnesota Twins [2001–2011]; Colorado Rockies [2012–2014]; New York Mets [2015])1986 - Manuel Neuer
footballer [goalkeeper]: German national team: 2014 World Cup champs1987 - Buster Posey
baseball [catcher]: San Francisco Giants [2009–2019]: 2010, 2012, 2014 World Series champs1988 - Holliday Grainger
actress: The Borgias, Great Expectations, Casualty, Doctors, Dalziel and Pascoe, Where the Heart Is, Waterloo Road, Merlin, Bonnie & Clyde [2013]1988 - Jessie J (Jessica Ellen Cornish)
singer: Nobody’s Perfect, Wild, Domino, Laserlight, Do It Like a Dude, Bang Bang; more1988 - Brenda Song
actress: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, The Ultimate Christmas Present, Like Mike, Get a Clue, Stuck in the Suburbs, Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, Special Delivery, College Road Trip, The Social Network2000 - Halle Bailey
singer: Angel, In Your Hands; actress: Grown-ish, The Little Mermaid, The Color Purple [2023]
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Hit Music on This Day March 27
1944Besame Mucho (facts) - The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen
Mairzy Doats (facts) - The Merry Macs
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