[Orion]

1866: President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill; it later becomes the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

1912: First lady Helen Taft plants the first Japanese cherry trees in Washington, D.C.

1958: Nikita Khrushchev becomes prime minister of the Soviet Union.

1964: 27th March, 1964: A massive earthquake Named the “Good Friday Earthquake,” that measured 8.6 on the Richter scale struck Alaska, flattening buildings and triggering a massive tidal wave.

1968: 27th March, 1968: Yuri Gagarin, the famous Russian cosmonaut who flew the world's first manned space mission, died during a training flight .

1973: Marlon Brando refuses his Oscar for "The Godfather" in protest of Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans.

1977: At least 560 people die when two jumbo jets collide on a runway in the popular holiday destination of Tenerife.

1980: 27th March, 1980: After a week of small earthquakes below the area, an eruption of Mount St. Helens blasts a mushroom cloud over most of the state of Washington. Just 2 months later St. Helens catastrophically erupted on May 18, 1980 during which 57 people were killed or never found and huge tracts of forest and homes were destroyed.

1989: 27th March, 1989: A high turnout of eighty Percent of Russian people vote in Soviet parliamentary elections with many non-communist members being elected. This is a continuing trend in the Soviet Union of openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions together with freedom of information "glasnost and perestroika" .
An important point to note is the percentage of voters in the Soviet Union who used their right to vote compared with other countries in the same decade.

1909: 27th March, 1909: For the first time fingerprint evidence is used to solve a murder case. The worlds first official Fingerprint Bureau was founded in Scotland Yard in 1901. It should also be noted that the World's first Fingerprint Bureau opened in Calcutta, India in 1897

1998 :The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer, to fight male impotence.

2006:Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui a French citizen of Moroccan descent claimed in his trial that he was supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House but it is unclear if he was telling the truth or seeking publicity.
He was convicted of conspiring to kill Americans as part of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and is serving a life sentence at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.