Talk:March 27

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March 27: Feast day of Rupert of Salzburg in the Roman Catholic Church.

• 1513 - Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León (pictured) first sighted Florida, purportedly while searching for the Fountain of Youth in the New World.
• 1794 - The United States Navy was established.
• 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union.
• 1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake and subsequent tsunamis devastated Anchorage, Alaska.
• 1977 - Two Boeing 747 airliners collided in the Tenerife disaster on Tenerife of the Canary Islands, killing 583 people and resulting in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history.

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