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March 27 is the 86th ... the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 ... Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director ...
Pee Wee Russell (March 27, 1906 –February 15, 1969), (born Charles Ellsworth Russell) American clarinetist, would have turned 118 this year. Hal Kemp (March 27, 1905 –December 21, 1940), (born James Harold Kemp) American bandleader and reedist , would have turned 119 this year.
1964 – The 9.2 M w Good Friday earthquake, the strongest in U.S. history, and subsequent tsunamis devastated Anchorage, Alaska, killing over 130 people. Too much uncited 1977 – Two Boeing 747 airliners collided on a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife , killing 583 people in the worst aircraft accident in aviation ...
1964 - 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. 1969 - Mariner 7 is launched.
[50] 1st Lieutenant Harold W. Welch, who had fractured an arm and a leg, would be released March 21, and U.S. Army captains David I. Holland and Melvin J. Kessler would be set free on March 27. [51] Voters in New Hampshire overwhelmingly approved the first legal state lottery in the United States since 1895, with 114,987 in favor and only ...
The last 27 prisoners were transferred elsewhere at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Frank P. Weatherman was the last of the 27 inmates to depart the prison. [80] All communication was lost from the Soviet Union's Mars 1 spacecraft because of a malfunction in its antenna.
Nearly 100 years ago, one of the most fondly remembered U.S. presidents was born. John F. Kennedy was born May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, a little town just outside of center Boston.
27 March 27, 1937 (Saturday) 28 March 28, 1937 ... [27] Born: Olusegun Obasanjo ... as the first person in history to reach 500 miles per hour ...