Summary of the Day ✨ 27 March (27/03)
Tragedy struck multiple locations as a mass shooting in Nashville claimed seven lives, while a suicide bombing targeting Easter celebrations in Pakistan killed over seventy people and injured nearly three hundred. In political news, North Macedonia officially became NATO’s 30th member, even as a fire at a migrant detention center in Mexico resulted in forty fatalities and militants briefly occupied a hotel in Somalia leaving twenty dead.
Historical Events 📜
- 2023: Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 2023: Forty people are killed in a fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
- 2020: North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.
- 2016: A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.
- 2015: Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
- 2014: Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
- 2009: The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
- 2004: HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
- 2002: Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.
- 2002: Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured.
- 2000: A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
- 1999: Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
- 1998: The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
- 1993: Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People’s Republic of China.
- 1993: Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
Famous Births 👶
- 2002: Daria Snigur, Ukrainian tennis player
- 2001: Natanael Cano, Mexican rapper and singer
- 2000: Halle Bailey, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 2000: Sophie Nélisse, Canadian actress
- 1999: Jesser, American YouTuber
- 1999: Alex O’Connor, English media personality
- 1998: Giannis Bouzoukis, Greek footballer
- 1997: Lisa, Thai rapper and dancer
- 1995: Bill Tuiloma, New Zealand footballer
- 1993: Brandon Nimmo, American baseball player
- 1992: Marc Muniesa, Spanish footballer
- 1991: London on da Track, American record producer
- 1990: Erdin Demir, Swedish-Turkish footballer
- 1990: Ben Hunt, Australian rugby league player
- 1990: Nicolas Nkoulou, Cameroonian footballer
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2026: Henry Lee, Chinese-American forensic scientist (born 1938)
- 2025: Christina McKelvie, Scottish politician (born 1968)
- 2024: Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American author, psychologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934)
- 2024: Joe Lieberman, American politician and lawyer (born 1942)
- 2018: Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (born 1936)
- 2016: Mother Angelica, American Roman Catholic religious leader and media personality (born 1923)
- 2015: Johnny Helms, American trumpet player, bandleader, and educator (born 1935)
- 2015: T. Sailo, Indian soldier and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram (born 1922)
- 2014: Richard N. Frye, American scholar and academic (born 1920)
- 2014: James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense and first United States Secretary of Energy (born 1929)
- 2013: Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (born 1923)
- 2013: Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American scientist and engineer (born 1924)
- 2013: Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (born 1917)
- 2012: Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist and feminist (born 1929)
- 2011: Clement Arrindell, Nevisian judge and politician, 1st Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (born 1931)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast day:
Easter (Palmarian Church) - Christian feast day:
Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century. - Christian feast day:
Amador of Portugal - Christian feast day:
Augusta of Treviso - Christian feast day:
Charles Henry Brent (Episcopal Church (USA)) - Christian feast day:
Gelasius, Archbishop of Armagh - Christian feast day:
John of Egypt - Christian feast day:
Panacea De’ Muzzi - Christian feast day:
Philetus - Christian feast day:
Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730. - Christian feast day:
Rupert of Salzburg - Christian feast day:
Zanitas and Lazarus of Persia - Christian feast day:
March 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Armed Forces Day (Myanmar)
- Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania (Romania)