1955 Mar 27, Steve McQueen made his network TV debut on the Goodyear Playhouse.
1963 Mar 27, John F. Kennedy met with King Hassan II of Morocco.
1998 Mar 27, Pres. Yeltsin nominated acting Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko (35) to head the government.
2003 Mar 27, Pres. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair met to assess the progress of the war in Iraq.
2003 Mar 27, Russia’s Evgeni Plushenko won his 2nd World Figure Skating Championships title, edging American Tim Goebel.
2004 Mar 27, Robert Merle (95), French author, died. His books included “The Day of the Dolphin,” which was made into a 1973 film.
2005 Mar 27, Ahmed Zaki (55), one of Egypt’s most acclaimed actors, died. He portrayed former Egyptian presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat.
2005 Mar 27, Pope John Paul II delivered an Easter Sunday blessing to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, but the ailing pontiff was unable to speak and managed only to greet the saddened crowd with a sign of the cross.
2006 Mar 27, Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified at his federal trial that he was supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House.
2007 Mar 27, Walter Anderson, the telecommunications entrepreneur who admitted hiding hundreds of millions of dollars from the IRS and District of Columbia tax collectors, was sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to repay about $23 million to the city. But US District Judge Paul Friedman said he couldn’t order Anderson to repay the federal government $100 million to $175 million because the Justice Department’s binding plea agreement with Anderson listed the wrong statute.
2007 Mar 27, US Attorney John Brownlee announced that ITT Corp. has agreed to pay a $100 million penalty for illegally sending classified night-vision technology to China and other countries.
2007 Mar 27, Paul Lauterbur (77), the father of Magnetic Resonance Imagery (MRI), died. He shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2003.
2008 Mar 27, In Columbus, Georgia, Charles Johnston (63) stormed a hospital and killed 3 people including a nurse he blamed for his mother’s death in 2004. Johnston was wounded and taken into custody.
2008 Mar 27, Puerto Rico’s Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila was charged with 19 counts in a campaign finance probe, including conspiracy to violate US federal campaign laws and giving false testimony to the FBI. 12 others were also charged in the corruption probe.
2009 Mar 27, President Barack Obama ordered 4,000 more military troops into Afghanistan, vowing to “disrupt, dismantle and defeat” the Taliban and al-Qaida.
2009 Mar 27, French President Nicolas Sarkozy wrapped up his mini-tour of three African countries, after meeting with Niger leader Mamadou Tandja. This followed visits to Kinshasa and Brazzaville.
2009 Mar 27, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari called for a US change of policy and voiced opposition to missile strikes. A suicide bomber demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending prayers near Jamrud in the Khyber Pass, killing at least 50 people and injuring over 100 more.
2009 Mar 27, Thai PM Abhisit Vejjavija’s rejected calls for his resignation by thousands of anti-government protesters who ringed his office for a second day in a boisterous rally.
2011 Mar 27, DJ Megatron (32), an urban radio and TV personality, was shot and killed in NYC. The occasional BET TV host was killed while going to a store.
2011 Mar 27, Venezuela’s President Chavez urged citizens to cut their calories to avoid obesity, the latest lifestyle recommendation by the self-proclaimed socialist crusader. Chavez has lobbied in recent weeks against what he calls the evils of capitalism, including alcoholism, breast implants and violent television programs.
2012 Mar 27, In South Korea world leaders including US President Barack Obama called for strong steps to combat nuclear terrorism, wrapping up a 53-nation summit overshadowed by North Korea’s planned rocket launch.
2012 Mar 27, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad toured the flashpoint Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs. A spokesman for UN envoy Kofi Annan said Syria has accepted his 6-point plan to end the bloodshed in the country. Syrian security forces reportedly killed 10 people as the regime pushed to retake areas still under rebel control.
2013 Mar 27, Syria’s Pres. Assad appealed o the leaders of a five-nation economic forum meeting in South Africa to help end his country’s two-year conflict. Assad sent a letter urging the leaders of the five nation BRICS forum — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — to “work for an immediate cessation of violence. The Observatory said rebels overran three army posts near Bir Ajam.
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