Mar 27 2024 62 mins 12
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On This Day In History for March 27, 2024
This is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining in 2024.
- It was on this date in 1513, that Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reached the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
- On March 27, 1886, Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrendered to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
- It was 112 years ago today that First Lady Helen Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the origin of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
- Also today in 1915, Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, was put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life
- It was 60 years ago today, that The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 struck Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage
- That same date in 1975, Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System began.
- It was 48 years ago today that The first section of the Washington Metro opened to the public.
- Also on March 27, 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
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- French engineer, urban planner, and politician, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, born on this date in 1809.
- Edward Augustus Inglefield, the English admiral and explorer was born 204 years ago today.
- Born March 27, 1844, American general and explorer, Medal of Honor recipient Adolphus Greely.
- German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Wilhelm Röntgen was born 179 years ago today.
- Born March 27, 1847, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Otto Wallach.
- American target shooter, colonel, mountaineer, geographer, geologist, and archaeologist, William Libbey, born on this date in 1855.
- Douglas Hartree, the English mathematician and physicist was born 127 years ago today.
- American mathematician and computer programmer, Margaret K. Butler, born on this date in 1924.
- American science fiction writer, Kevin J. Anderson is 62 today.
- Also born on that same date in 1963, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, Quentin Tarantino.
- Canadian actor, Nathan Fillion is 53 today.
Listener Birthdays
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- 23 – Richard Parkman
- 25 – Nicholas St Gabriel
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- 26 – Brina Baird in Hampton, VA
- 29 – Marc Blackburn
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 27, 2024
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News
- Mars declared unsafe for humans to live as no one can survive for longer than four years
- 2024 Abel prize: Michel Talagrand wins maths award for making sense of randomness | New Scientist
- Neuralink Reveals First Human-Trial Patient
Hacks & Strange Stories
- Robot turns itself to liquid to escape cage and then reforms just like in Terminator 2
- Dogs’ brain activity shows they recognize the names of objects | Ars Technica
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