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This is a list of selected March 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Tatmadaw Day in Myanmar refimprove
1782Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a leading British Whig Party statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as prime minister of Great Britain. unreferenced section
1794 – To protect American merchant ships from Barbary pirates, Congress passed the Naval Act to authorize the building of six frigates, which eventually became the U.S. Navy. Date not in source cited
1814 – In central Alabama, U.S. and Native American forces under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. refimprove section
1851 – Explorer Lafayette Bunnell and other members of the Mariposa Battalion became the non-indigenous discoverers of California's Yosemite Valley. unreferenced section
1915Mary Mallon (pictured), the first person to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, was placed into quarantine in New York City, where she spent the rest of her life. improve citations
1964 – The 9.2 Mw Good Friday earthquake, the strongest in U.S. history, and subsequent tsunamis devastated Anchorage, Alaska, killing over 130 people. Too much uncited
1977 – Two Boeing 747 airliners collided on a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife, killing 583 people in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history. Too much uncited
1993Jiang Zemin succeeded Yang Shangkun to become President of the People's Republic of China. refimprove
2009 – A suicide bomber killed at least 48 people during Friday prayer at a mosque in Jamrud, Pakistan. Source and article inconsistencies re death toll
Domenico Lalli |b|1679| Birthday not cited
Jane Colden |b|1724| Birthday not cited

Eligible

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

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