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World Day:
- World Theater Day
27 March Important Events:
1667: Netaji Palkar, who defected to Shivaji Maharaj and went to the Mughals, was forcibly converted.
1668: Charles II of England handed over the Bombay province to the British East India Company.
1794: The US Navy is founded.
1841: The first successful test of a steam-powered railway engine was conducted in New York County.
1854: Crimean War – England declares war on Russia.
1855: Canadian physician Abraham Gessner discovers samples of kerosene.
1871: The first international rugby match was played between two nations, Scotland and England.
1893: Keshavsuta wrote Tutari, a poem.
1958: Nikita Khrushchev becomes President of Soviet Russia.
1961: The first World Theater Day was celebrated in the year.
1966: On March 20, a stolen World Cup football trophy was found by a dog named Pickles in a garden in South London. Then the cup was stolen again in 1983, it has not been found till date.
1977: Pan Am and K on the runway on the island of Tenerife. L. M. 583 people were killed when these two Boeing 747 aircraft collided.
1992: Renowned singer Pandit Bhimsen Joshi conferred with the Tansen Award by the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
2000: Film producer-film director b. R. Rashtrabhushan Award announced to Chopra by Phi Foundation.
2001: Lt Gen Hariprasad took over as the head of the Forward Corps.
2004: NASA, an American research organization, developed X-43, the fastest unmanned jet aircraft.
27 March Birthdays / Anniversaries:
1785: Louis (Seventeenth) – King of France (died: 8 June 1795)
1845: Wilhelm Röntgen – Nobel Prize-winning German physicist (died: February 10, 1923)
1863: Birth of Henry Royce, founder of Rolls-Royce Limited. (Died: 22 April 1933)
1901: Carl Barks – cartoonist who drew Donald Duck to worldwide popularity for nearly three decades (died: August 25, 2000)
1915: Birth of Pushpalata Das, Indian freedom activist, social activist, Gandhian and MLA from the northeastern Indian state of Assam.
1917: Birth of Indian poet Kamakhi Prasad Chattopadhyay.
1923: Birth of famous anthropologist and feminist scholar Leela Dubey.
1939: Birth of Indian politician Banwari Lal Joshi.
1954: Birth of Hemant Joshi, Professor of Mass Communication and Journalism.
1990: Indian field hockey player Harbir Singh Sandhu’s birthday.
1898: Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian educationist and social reformer.
1915: Death of the great Indian revolutionary Pandit Kanshiram.
1952: Kaiichiro Toyota, founder of Toyota Motor Company, dies. (Born: 11 June 1894)
1967: Nobel Prize-winning Czech chemist Jaroslav Herovsky dies. (Born: 20 December 1890)
1968: Yuri Gagarin, Russia’s first cosmonaut to orbit the Earth.
1992: Prof. Sharachchandra Vasudev Chiramule, Marathi Literary, Principal, Garware College of Commerce.
1997: Bhargavaram Achrekar, Marathi theater singer-actor.
2000: Hindi film actresses Vera Sundar Singh and Priya Rajvansh were murdered at Chetan Anand’s bungalow in Ruia Park, Mumbai.