Today in History for 27th March 2018:
Historical Events
1329 – Pope John XXII issues his ‘In Agro Dominico’ condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1871 – 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0
1964 – Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
1969 – Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars
1969 – Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston
1993 – Jiang Zemin appointed President of the People’s Republic of China
Famous Birthdays
1871 – Heinrich Mann, German novelist and essayist (Professor Unrat); brother of Thomas, born in Lübeck (d. 1950)
1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
1909 – Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
1931 – Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
1937 – Johnny “Clyde” Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion’s Den)
1952 – Rocky Maffit, rocker (Champaign)
Famous Deaths
1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
1956 – Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
1991 – Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91
1993 – Katherine Hynes De Groot, dies of stroke at 88
1995 – Albert Drach, Austrian-Jewish writer, dies at 92
2006 – Stanis?aw Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)