Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 27

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 * 1638 – The first of four destructive earthquakes struck southern Italy, destroying an estimated 10,000 homes.
 * 1836 – At least 425 Texian prisoners of war were executed in the Goliad massacre, under orders from Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna.
 * 1850 – San Diego, the first European settlement in present-day California, was incorporated as a city.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, assumed the office of premier.
 * 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, an oil pipeline spanning the length of Alaska, began.
 * 1976 – The Washington Metro, the second-busiest rapid transit system in the U.S., opened to commuters.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 2009 – A failure of the dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Tangerang, Indonesia, caused floods that killed at least 100 people.
 * 2015 – Himeji Castle (pictured), the largest and most visited Japanese castle, re-opened after five years of restoration work.
 * Born/died this day: |Sigismund Báthory |d|1613| Simon Bradstreet |d|1697| Alexander Vostokov |b|1781| Rosa Campbell Praed |b|1851| Jan van Beers |b|1852|Thomas Graham Brown |b|1882|Kick Kelly |d|1926| Michael Joseph Savage |d|1940| Julia Alvarez |b|1950| Mariah Carey |b|1969| Mother Angelica |d|2016

March 27: Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania (1918)


 * 1884 – Outraged by a jury's decision to convict a man of manslaughter instead of murder, a mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, began three days of rioting.
 * 1899 – Philippine–American War: American forces defeated troops commanded by Philippine president Emilio Aguinaldo at the Battle of Marilao River.
 * 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.
 * 1999 – During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an Army of Yugoslavia unit shot down a U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft.
 * 2020 – North Macedonia became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).