March 27

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[edit] Events

1. 1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.
2. 1613 - First English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
3. 1854 - Crimean War: United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
4. 2002 - A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.

[edit] Births

1. 972 - King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
2. 1871 - Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
3. 1886 - Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
4. 1913 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)

[edit] Deaths

1. 1555 - William Hunter, Protestant martyr