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1794 – To protect American merchant ships from Barbary pirates , the United States Congress passed the Naval Act to establish a naval force , consisting of the USS Constitution and five other frigates , which eventually became the United States Navy .
1836 – Texas Revolution : Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the execution of about 400 Texian prisoners of war.
1850 - San Diego is incorporated as a city.
1884 – Outraged by a jury 's decision to convict a man of manslaughter instead of murder , a mob in Cincinnati , Ohio , began three dægs of rioting .
1945 – Ōðru Woruld Gūþ : The United States Army Air Forces began Operation Starvation , laying naval mines in many of Japan's vital water routes and ports to disrupt shipping.
1958 – Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union following the death of Joseph Stalin .
1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System , an oil pipeline spanning the length of Alaska , began.
1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike , the biggest strike in the history of the Eastern Bloc , in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.
2002 – A suicide bomber killed about 30 Israeli civilians and injured about 140 others at the Park Hotel in Netanya , triggering Operation Defensive Shield , a large-scale counter-terrorist Israeli military incursion into the West Bank , two dægs later.
2009 – The dam holding Situ Gintung , an artificial lake in Tangerang District , Indonesia, failed, resulting in floods killing at least 100 people.
March 27 : Tatmadaw Dæg in Burma
CGI rendering of the Tenerife airport disaster
1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham , a leading British Whig Party statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as Prime Minister of Great Britain .
1915 – Typhoid Mary , the first person to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever , was placed into quarantine , where she would spend the rest of her life.
1977 – Two Boeing 747 airliners collided (CGI rendering pictured) on a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife in the Canary Islands , killing 583 people in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history .
1980 – Nelson Bunker Hunt and his brother failed in their attempt to corner the Woruld market in silver, causing panic in commodity and futures exchanges .
1998 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug sildenafil , 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.
2005 – Golden Globe Award -winning medical drama , Grey's Anatomy , commenced airing on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), in the United States.
2009 – A suicide bomber killed at least 48 people at a mosque in Jamrud , in the Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.