Today in History for 27th March 2022:
Historical Events
1808 – Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “Die Schopfung” premieres in Vienna
1879 – Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
1929 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1958 – Havana Hilton opens in Cuba, later HQ for Fidel Castro
1980 – Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212
2019 – UK Prime Minister Theresa May promises to stand down if parliament accepts her Brexit plan
Famous Birthdays
1921 – Tom Bevill, American Democratic fifteen-term U.S. congressman, born in Townley, Alabama (d. 2005)
1922 – Margaret Stacey, English sociologist who helped shape the distinctively British genre of empirical sociology, born in London (d. 2004)
1926 – Frank O’Hara, American writer and poet, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1966)
1942 – Michael Jackson, British writer and journalist, born in Wetherby, Yorkshire (d. 2007)
1950 – Tony Banks, British progressive rock keyboardist (Genesis – “Supper’s Ready”), and film score and classical composer, born in East Hoathly, Sussex, England
1985 – Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel, born in Sollentuna Municipality, Sweden
Famous Deaths
1714 – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, queen of Denmark and Norway (1670-99), dies at 63
1983 – Janis Ivanovs, Latvian composer, dies at 76
1991 – Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint’s Vacation), dies at 77
2001 – Anthony Dexter [Walter Fleischmann], Canadian actor (The Phantom Planet, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas), dies at 88
2017 – Chelsea Brown, American comedienne (Laugh-in, Matt Lincoln), dies at 74
2020 – Les Hunter, American basketball center (NCAA C’ship 1963, Loyola Ramblers; NBA: Baltimore Bullets; ABA All Star 1968, 69; Miami Floridians), dies from cancer at 77