WHAT HAPPENED ON 27. MARCH
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A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200. (27. March 1890)

Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River. (27. March 1899)

A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312. (27. March 1910)

Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life. (27. March 1915)

Bessarabia joins the Kingdom of Romania. (27. March 1918)

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place. (27. March 1938)

World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup. (27. March 1941)

World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. (27. March 1943)

World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers. (27. March 1945)

The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened. (27. March 1948)

Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union. (27. March 1958)

Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. (27. March 1963)

The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage. (27. March 1964)

Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins. (27. March 1975)

The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens. (27. March 1976)

Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history. (27. March 1977)

The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. (27. March 1980)

Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges. (27. March 1980)

The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours. (27. March 1981)

A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people. (27. March 1986)