Current Birthdays
Mariah Carey turns 40 years old today.
68 Michael York
Actor
35 Fergie
Singer (Black Eyed Peas)
Oh and some other stuff
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida.
1625 Charles I ascended the English throne upon the death of James I.
1794 President George Washington and Congress authorized creation of the U.S. Navy.
1836 The first Mormon temple was dedicated, in Kirtland, Ohio.
1939 Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball tournament with a 46-33 victory over Ohio State in Evanston, Ill.
1945 During World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters in Paris that German defenses on the Western Front had been broken.
1964 Alaska was rocked by a powerful earthquake that killed 114 people.
1977 A KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on the Canary Island of Tenerife, killing 582 people.
1996 An Israeli court convicted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's confessed assassin of murder, then sentenced former law student Yigal Amir to life in prison.
1997 Dexter King, son of Martin Luther King Jr., met with James Earl Ray, the man in prison for the assassination of the civil rights leader. Ray denied having anything to do with the shooting, to which King replied, "I believe you."
1998 The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer, to fight male impotence.
2001 California regulators approved electricity rate hikes of up to 46 percent.
2002 A suicide bomber killed 29 Israelis during a Passover Seder in Netanya, Israel.
2002 Comedian Milton Berle died at age 93.
http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/birthdays/mar27.htm