March 27<\/p>\n
1513 \u2013 Spanish Conquistador Juan Ponce de Le\u00f3n reaches the northern end of the Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.<\/p>\n
1794 \u2013 The United States establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of 6 frigates.<\/p>\n
1814 \u2013 During the War of 1812, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe, at the Battle of Horseshow Bend of Tallapoosa River in central Alabama, effectively ending the Creek nation’s involvement in the War.<\/p>\n
1836 \u2013 During the Texas Revolution, on the orders of General Antonio L\u00f3pez de Santa Anna, the Mexican army massacres 342 Texas prisoners of war at Goliad, Texas.<\/p>\n
1866 \u2013 President Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866.<\/em> His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.<\/p>\n 1886 \u2013 During surrender negotiations between Geronimo and U.S. Army General George Crook, photographer C. S. Fly takes several pictures of Geronimo and his band,\u00a0 the only known photographs taken of American Indians while still at war with the United States.<\/p>\n 1899 \u2013 Emilio Aguinaldo, age 30, the first and youngest President of the Philippines, leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine\u2013American War, being defeated at the Battle of Marilao River.<\/p>\n 1915 \u2013 Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the U.S. is put in quarantine for the second time, and for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 U.S. Navy Task Group 16.6 intercepts, engages and forces a withdrawal of Japanese ships off the Soviet Komandorski Islands that were attempting to reinforce the occupying Japanese garrison at Kiska Island.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 The most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history,\u00a0 at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 The first section of the Washington D.C. Metro rail system opens to the public.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 On Tenerife,\u00a0 in the Canary Islands, KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, both Boeing 747 airliners, collide on the airport’s main runway, killing all 248 passengers and crew aboard the KLM plane, and 335 of the 396 passengers and crew aboard the Pan Am plane. This is still the deadliest aviation accident in history.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 The U.S. begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Mart\u00ed.<\/em><\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 Over Kosovo, a USAF Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk, <\/em>piloted by LTC. Darrell Zelko is shot down by the Yugoslav 3rd Brigade of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade firing a S-125 Neva SAM-3, the first and only F-117 to be lost in combat.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 person and injures 71 other people.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 A Palestinian moslem terrorist suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The nation of North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 27 1513 \u2013 Spanish Conquistador Juan Ponce de Le\u00f3n reaches the northern end of the Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida. 1794 \u2013 The United States establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of 6 frigates. 1814 \u2013 During the War of 1812, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Red … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66257"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91233,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66257\/revisions\/91233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}