March 27 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for March 27
In the headlines today:

2002	TV and vaudeville entertainer Milton Berle dies of colon cancer at his Los Angeles home at age 93.
2002	Actor Dudley Moore (Arthur, 10) dies of pneumonia at his New Jersey home at age 66.
2000	Daimler Chrysler announces it is buying a one-third interest in Japanese auto maker Mitsubishi.
1998	Pfizer's anti-impotency drug, Viagra, is approved by the FDA.
1996	Yigal Amir, convicted of murdering Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is sentenced to life in prison.
1977	582 people are killed when a pair of Boeing 747 jumbo jets collide on the island of Tenerife.
1968	The first person to orbit the Earth, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, dies in a plane crash.
1964	A 9.2 magnitude earthquake kills 14 people in Alaska. The resulting tsunami kills 110 more.
1958	Stereo long-play records (LPs) are announced by CBS.
1958	Nikita Khrushchev is named premier of the USSR.
1955	The first coast to coast color TV broadcast is made today.
1920	Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford.
1917	The Seattle Metropolitans hockey team wins the Stanley Cup -- the first US team to do so.
1836	Mormon founder Joseph Smith dedicates the first Mormon temple (Kirtland, OH).
1802	The Treaty of Amiens is signed by England and France.
1794	The US Navy is created by an act of Congress.
1625	King James I of England dies.
1512	Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, seeking the fountain of youth, discovers Florida, instead.