March 27th, 1976

Born on March 27th, 1976

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What happened on March 27th, 1976?

March 27th, 1976

The first section of the Washington Metro opens to the public.

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March 27th, 1976

The Washington Metro, the second-busiest rapid transit system in the U.S., opened to commuters.

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What else happened on March 27th?

March 27th, 2015

Himeji Castle (pictured), the largest and most visited Japanese castle, re-opened after five years of restoration work.

March 27th, 2009

A failure of the dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Tangerang, Indonesia, caused floods that killed at least 100 people.

March 27th, 2020

North Macedonia became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

March 27th, 2002

Second Intifada: A suicide bomber killed around 30 Israeli civilians and injured about 140 others in Netanya, triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorist military incursion into the West Bank.

March 27th, 1999

During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an Army of Yugoslavia unit shot down a U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft.

March 27th, 1998

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug sildenafil (chemical structure pictured), better known by the trade name Viagra, for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.

March 27th, 1981

The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike, the largest in the history of the Eastern Bloc, in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.

March 27th, 1980

Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt failed in their attempt to corner the world silver market, causing panic in commodity and futures exchanges.

March 27th, 1977

Two Boeing 747 airliners collided on a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife, killing 583 people in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history

March 27th, 1958

Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, assumed the office of premier.

March 27th, 1945

World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began Operation Starvation, laying naval mines in many of Japan's vital water routes and ports to disrupt enemy shipping.

March 27th, 1941

World War II: A group of Serbian-nationalist officers of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force carried out a coup d'état after Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.

March 27th, 1915

Mary Mallon (pictured), the first person to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, was placed into quarantine in New York City, where she spent the rest of her life.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 27th

Born on March 27th, 1976

48

Danny Fortson

American basketball player

*March 27th, 1976, Philadelphia

48

Samu Gryllus

Hungarian conductor, composer, sound designer

*March 27th, 1976, Budapest

48

Adrian Anca

Romanian footballer

*March 27th, 1976, Diosig

48

Roberta Anastase

Romanian politician

*March 27th, 1976, Ploiești

48

Djamel Belmadi

Algerian and French football player and manager

*March 27th, 1976, Champigny-sur-Marne

48

Carlos Areces

Spanish actor

*March 27th, 1976, Madrid

48

Carl Ng

Hong Kong actor and model

*March 27th, 1976, British Hong Kong

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 27th?

61

Xuxa

Brazilian television presenter, actress, singer and former model and Wiggles member

*March 27th, 1963, Santa Rosa

79

Manuel Neuer

German association football player

*March 27th, 1945, Gelsenkirchen

49

Fergie

American singer and actress

*March 27th, 1975, Whittier

55

Mariah Carey

American singer and songwriter (born 1969)

*March 27th, 1969, Huntington

49

Nichole Galicia

American-Panamanian actress

*March 27th, 1975, Panama City

61

Quentin Tarantino

American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor

*March 27th, 1963, Knoxville

53

David Coulthard

British racing driver

*March 27th, 1971, Twynholm

52

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

Dutch association football player and manager

*March 27th, 1972, Paramaribo

67

Stephen Dillane

British actor

*March 27th, 1957, Kensington

46

Romesh Ranganathan

British comedian

*March 27th, 1978, Crawley

37

Polina Gagarina

Russian singer, songwriter, actress, and model

*March 27th, 1987, Moscow

35

Diego Rosa

Italian racing cyclist

*March 27th, 1989, Corneliano d'Alba

37

Buster Posey

American baseball player

*March 27th, 1987, Leesburg

72

Linda Martin

Northern Irish singer

*March 27th, 1952, Omagh

53

Nathan Fillion

Canadian-American actor (born 1971)

*March 27th, 1971, Edmonton

36

Jessie J

English singer

*March 27th, 1988, Chadwell Heath

50

Joan Horrach

Road bicycle racer

*March 27th, 1974, Deià

74

Esther Benbassa

French historian and politician

*March 27th, 1950, Istanbul

89

Julian Glover

English actor

*March 27th, 1935, Hampstead

77

Wilhelm Röntgen

German physicist (1845–1923)

*March 27th, 1845, Lennep †February 10th, 1923, Munich

Same year
Born in 1976

47

Abiy Ahmed Ali

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

*August 15th, 1976, Beshasha

47

Anna Friel

British actress

*July 12th, 1976, Rochdale

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

48

Robert Mateusiak

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1976, Wołomin

47

Gülşen

Turkish singer

*May 29th, 1976, Çapa, Fatih

47

Regina Halmich

German boxer

*November 22nd, 1976, Karlsruhe

40

Ueli Steck

Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (1976-2017)

*October 4th, 1976, Langnau im Emmental †April 30th, 2017, Nuptse

47

Halim Haryanto

Badminton player

*September 23rd, 1976, Bandung City

47

Ellen Angelina

Indonesian badminton player

*June 30th, 1976, Salatiga City

48

Chantal Botts

Badminton player

*March 30th, 1976, Witbank

48

Takae Masumo

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1976, Hokkaido

48

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

48

Daniel Ernemann

German association football player and manager

*February 18th, 1976, Amberg

47

Inga Marte Thorkildsen

Norwegian politician

*July 2nd, 1976, Oslo

47

Benedict Cumberbatch

English actor (born 1976)

*July 19th, 1976, Hammersmith

47

Lars Ricken

German footballer

*July 10th, 1976, Dortmund

47

Francesco Totti

Italian association football player

*September 27th, 1976, Rome

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

47

Colin Farrell

Irish actor (born 1976)

*May 31st, 1976, Dublin

47

Wang Chen

Hong Kong badminton player

*June 21st, 1976, Shanghai

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Leap year

Yes: 1976 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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