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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48190)3/27/2005 4:15:39 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history-March 27:

Easter Sunday in Western Christianity (2005)

1513 - Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León first sighted Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth in the New World.

1794 - The United States Navy was established.

1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union.

1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake struck Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska at a magnitude of 9.2, with subsequent tsunamis reaching as far as California and Hawaii.

1977 - Two Boeing 747 airliners collided in the Tenerife disaster on Tenerife of the Canary Islands, killing 583 people in one of the worst aircraft accidents in aviation history.