Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 27

March 27: Feast day of Rupert of Salzburg in the Roman Catholic Church.

Juan Ponce de León

• 1513 - Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León (pictured) first sighted Florida, purportedly while searching for the Fountain of Youth in the New World.

• 1794 - The United States Navy was established.

• 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union.

• 1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake and subsequent tsunamis devastated Anchorage, Alaska.

• 1977 - Two Boeing 747 airliners collided in the Tenerife disaster on Tenerife of the Canary Islands, killing 583 people and resulting in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history.

Recent days: March 26 – March 25 – March 24

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