TODAY IN HISTORY ― MARCH 27

March 27 is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56). 

NATIONAL JOE DAY 

1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.   

1625 – Scottish-born Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General and future president, Andrew Jackson, defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army butchers 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas. "Remeber Goliad!" was a rallying cry thereafter until  the Battle of the Alamo, after which it was, "Remeber the Alamo!" until Texas eventually won it's independence.

1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.

1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.

1915 – Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon), the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.

1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.

1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

1964 – The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.

1975 – Construction of the (Alyeska) Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.

1980 – The semi-submersible Norwegian drilling rig Alexander L. Kielland capsizes near the Phillips Norway Group's Edda platform in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.

2002 – The Passover massacre: A Hamas Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.

2009 – A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.

2013 – Canada becomes the first country to announce its intention to withdraw from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

2014 – Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.

2015 – Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.

BORN TODAY

1785 – Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)

1844 – Adolphus Greely, American general and explorer, Medal of Honor recipient ― WWI (d. 1935)

1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)

1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 1969)

1921 – Phil Chess, Czech-American record producer, co-founded Chess Records (d. 2016)

1924 – Margaret K. Butler, American mathematician and computer programmer (d. 2013)

From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.