IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: MARCH 27

• 196 BC Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.  MORE

1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida

• 1713 Spain loses Menorca and Gibraltar to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht.  MORE

• 1790 The modern shoelace with an aglet patented in England by Harvey Kennedy.
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• 1841 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC.  MORE

1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene.  MORE

• 1914 1st successful non-direct blood transfusion is performed by Dr. Albert Hustin in Brussels                                                                      

1977 583 die in aviation’s worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain
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1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
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• 1997 Martin Luther King’s son meets James Earl Ray, his father’s killer

• 2134 32nd (NEXT) predicted perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.

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