This Day in History For March 27 –

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1866 – Andrew Rankin patents the urinal.

1912 – First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the bank of the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.

1915 – Typhold Mary (Mary Mallon) is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid.

1930 – First American radio broadcast from ship at sea.

1931 – New York Giants manager John McGraw says night baseball would not become popular, a statement that proved to be inaccurate.

1933 – Farm Credit Administration is authorized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s executive order.

1943 – World War II: The United States begins assault on Fandouk Pass, Tunisia.

1948 – Just 11 days after being released from prison, jazz singer Billie Holiday plays in front of a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

1952 – “Singin’ In the Rain,” a musical comedy directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

1957 – 29th Academy Awards: “Around the World in 80 Days,” Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner win.

1964 – The 12 men involved in the Great Train Robbery sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars for robbing the Glasgow-London Royal Mail train in 1963.

1969 – Mariner 7 launches and on August 5 it flies 2,190-miles above southern Mars, the closest approach to the planet.

1972 – Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching the Kentucky men’s basketball team. He won 876 games and four NCAA championships.

1979 – Supreme Court rules 8-1 that police officers cannot randomly stop cars.

1986 – Groundbreaking for Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida.

1995 – 67th Academy Awards: “Forrest Gump,” Jessica Lange and Tom Hanks win.

2000 – Phillips plant explosion kills one person and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.

2012 – Danielle Steel’s novel “Betrayal” is published.

2019 – Yahya Jammeh, the former president of Gambia, stole almost $1 billion from his country before his exile in 2017, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.

2024 – New analysis confirms climate change is slowing the rotation of the Earth due to melting ice caps and will probably delay the next leap second by three years, according to Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego.

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