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On this Day - March 27th


 * 1899 - First radio transmission across the Channel from Wimereux, in France, to South Foreland Lighthouse, near Dover, by Guglielmo Marconi
 * 2000 - Ian Dury, best known as founder and lead singer of the band Ian Dury and the Blockheads, died, he taught art at the Kent Institute of Art & Design