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March 27

4 sourced moments from March 27 in history: The US re-established its Navy with six frigates (1794); Röntgen, born 1845, was expelled from school over a cartoon; The Great Alaska earthquake struck (1964), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on March 27

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1977 Earth & Climate · Natural Disasters

The Tenerife airport disaster killed 583 people

On a fog-bound runway in the Canary Islands, two jumbo jets met head-on in the deadliest accident aviation has ever recorded.

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1964 Earth & Climate · Natural Disasters

The Great Alaska earthquake struck

On Good Friday 1964, the most powerful quake in US history shook Alaska for nearly five minutes and sent tsunamis across the Pacific.

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1845 Science · Physics

Röntgen, born 1845, was expelled from school over a cartoon

Born on 27 March 1845, the future discoverer of X-rays lost his school diploma over a caricature he didn't draw — and died nearly bankrupt.

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1794 History · Modern

The US re-established its Navy with six frigates

Pirates in the Mediterranean pushed a reluctant Congress to vote a navy back into existence, frigate by frigate.

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