March 27 Fun Facts, Trivia and History
March 27 History Highlights
- 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reached the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
- 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever ID’d in the United States, was put in quarantine.
- 1952 – Singin’ In The Rain debuted in theaters.
- March 27, 2001 – Nintendo 3DS released, Video Game Console
- If you were born on March 27th,
You were likely conceived the week of… July 4th (prior year)
Typhoid Mary
March 27 is…
Spanish Paella Day
March 27 Birthday Quotes
“Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend someone, somewhere, somehow.”
– Brenda Song
“I’m a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.”
– Nathan Fillion
“My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.”
– Gloria Swanson
“Being perfect is boring. It’s the imperfections that make us perfect.”
– Jessie J
“I am not a special person. I am a regular person who does special things.”
– Sarah Vaughan
March 27 Birthdays
1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect (died in 1969)
1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress and producer (died in 1983)
1901 – Carl Barks, American illustrator (died in 2000)
1905 – Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German general (died in 1980)
1914 – Richard Denning, American actor (died in 1998)
1924 – Sarah Vaughan, American Jazz singer (died in 1990)
1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (died in 1988)
1942 – Michael York, English actor
1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian actress and singer
1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress
1969 – Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1971 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
1975 – Fergie, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1988 – Jessie J, English singer-songwriter
1988 – Brenda Song, American actress
1988 – Holliday Grainger, English actress
March 27 History
1899 – Guglielmo Marconi’s radio transmitted across the English Channel from Boulogne, France, to Dover, England.
March 27, 1960 Birthday (fictional) James Potter, Harry Potter
1964 (Earthquake) ‘Good Friday Earthquake’ – the most powerful earthquake in US history at a magnitude of 9.2, struck Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1965 – #1 Hit March 27, 1965 – April 9, 1965: The Supremes – Stop! In the Name of Love
1972 – Newspaper comic strip Funky Winkerbean debuted.
1973 – Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather went to the podium for Marlon Brando to decline his Best Actor Oscar for his performance in The Godfather.
1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System began.
1977 – The Canary Islands Plane Disaster – Two 747s collided, killing 570 people.
1978 – Broadway Show – Dancin’ (Dance Musical) March 27, 1978
1980 – The North Sea Oil Rig Disaster: The Alexander L. Kielland Oil Rig capsized, killing 123 people.
1983 – The Thornbirds miniseries ran March 27-30 on ABC
1983 – Broadway Show – Brighton Beach Memoirs (Play) March 27, 1983
1984 – East End Show – Starlight Express (Musical) March 27, 1984
1998 – The FDA approved Viagra.
March 27, 2001 – Nintendo 3DS released, Video Game Console
2010 – #1 Hit March 27, 2010 – April 30, 2010: Rihanna – Rude Boy
#1 Hit March 27, 2021 – April 2, 2021: Up – Cardi B
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
“getting the hang of it” comes from attaching the head of an axe to the shaft just right.
I feel like I spent a lot of time as a child being taught the difference between stalactites and stalagmites and zero time needing to know that information.
Half of infinity would be infinity.
“Stella! Hey, Stella!” – Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) in A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
Before alarm clocks, there were ‘knocker-ups’ in Britain and Ireland who went knocking door to door with a large stick.
Under UN protocol, the President of the United States is to be addressed as “His Excellency.”
In the 1850s, baseball had different rules in Massachusetts than it did in New York. Under the Massachusetts rules, you could throw the ball at a runner, and if you hit them, they were out.
A standard 3×3 Rubik’s Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different possible configurations.
Why do Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles bother wearing masks?
Michael Buffer the “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble” guy had the phrase trademarked and as of 2009, it has generated $400 million dollars in revenue.
“Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” – Arthur “Cody” Jarrett (James Cagney) in White Heat, 1949
Tom Cruise – Real Name: Tom Cruise Mapother
Over 15,000 forms of life have been found in the New York Subway system
Robot B9 – the official name for the robot on Lost In Space
The biggest film of 1938: Alexander’s Ragtime Band (Drama) earned ~ $4,000,000