On This Day
27 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1898 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Muslim pragmatist, Islamic reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British India, passed away at Aligarh.
- 1942 Mahatma Gandhi met Sir Stafford Cripps at New Delhi and later declared Cripps proposals to be a "post-dated cheque".
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1845 Wilhelm Röntgen, German mechanical engineer and physicist, was born in Remscheid, Germany. On 8 November 1895, he discovered X-rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
- 1884 The first long-distance telephone call was made, between Boston and New York.
- 1964 A 9.2 magnitude earthquake hit 80 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska, killing 117 and producing a 50-foot tsunami that travelled over 8,000 miles.
- 1968 Yuri Gagarin, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, was killed in an air crash while on a routine training flight.
- 1977 The worst air crash in history occured in Tenerife, Spain, when two Boeing 747 aircrafts collided on the runway.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Theatre Day was initiated in 1962 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI). It is celebrated by ITI Centres and the international theatre community. Various national and international theatre events are organized to mark this occasion.
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