On This Day March 27th

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March 27th is the Eighty–sixth Day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 279 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.

1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, claiming the title King of France.

1638 – The first of four destructive Calabrian earthquakes strikes southern Italy. Measuring magnitude 6.8 and assigned a Mercalli intensity of XI, it kills 10,000–30,000 people.

1794 – The United States Government established a permanent navy and authorized the building of six frigates.

1866—President of the United States of America, Andrew Johnson, vetoes the Civil Rights Act 1866. Congress overrides his veto, and the bill passes into law on April 9.

1871 – The first international rugby football match, Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

1871 – The first international rugby football match, Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

1886 – Geronimo, an Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.

1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of the disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.

1933—Japanese invasion of Manchuria: Japan left the League of Nations after it approved the Lytton Report, which ruled in favor of China.

1976 – The first section of the Washington Metro opens to the public.

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

1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approved Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.

 

Birthdays

1844 – Adolphus Greely, American general and explorer, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1935)

1863 – Henry Royce, an English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933)

1879 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)

1924 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)

1939 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver and businessman

1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian actress, singer, businesswoman, and television presenter

 

Holidays And Observance

MANATEE APPRECIATION DAY

The sea's gentle giants, manatees, are closely related to elephants, with their egg-shaped heads and flat tails. They are 10 to 13 feet in length, weigh almost 1,300 pounds, and, despite looking bulky, can move or swim very quickly if necessary. They can be found in slow rivers, saltwater bays, estuaries, canals, and other coastal areas, spending their lives either sleeping, eating, or traveling. Manatees don’t have a care in the world and only need to surface occasionally to replenish their oxygen.

Unfortunately, manatees have become endangered in recent years, mainly due to the loss of their habitat. There are only three distinct species worldwide—West African, Amazonian, and West Indian—and the aquatic animals regularly fall victim to poaching for their meat, the destruction of waterways, and careless collisions with ships.

New developments destroy their natural nesting areas, contaminate the water with toxic sewage, manure, and fertilizers, and cause algal blooms. Manatees often fatally collide with boats and ships in the shallow waters where they must live to feed on the seagrass, their only food resource.

Manatee Appreciation Day was created by Save the Manatee Club, the world’s leading manatee conservation organization. Founded in 1981 by songwriter Jimmy Buffet and former U.S. senator Bob Graham, the organization protects the manatee and its habitat. It established this holiday to support its mission of rescuing the slow-moving sea cows from thoughtless, deadly human activities.

 

Others Include.

American Red Cross Giving Day

Celebrate Exchange Day

Holy Wednesday

Little Red Wagon Day

Manatee Appreciation Day

National Joe Day

National Scribble Day

National Spanish Paella Day

Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day

Viagra Day

Whole Grain Sampling Day

World Theatre Day

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