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Historical events & facts — March 27
What happened on March 27?
On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747s collided on the runway of Los Rodeos airport in Tenerife, causing 583 deaths in the worst aviation accident in history. The KLM flight took off without clearance and collided head-on with the Pan Am aircraft still taxiing on the fog-shrouded runway. The tragedy transformed communication protocols in world civil aviation.
On March 27, 1964, the most powerful earthquake in North American history — magnitude 9.2 — struck Alaska, killing 143 people and triggering a tsunami that affected Pacific coastlines from Alaska to California. The Great Alaska Earthquake raised some areas by up to 11 metres and lowered others by 2 metres, transforming the region's coastal landscape.
On March 27, 1845, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born in Lennep, Germany — the physicist who discovered X-rays in 1895, earning him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in history in 1901. Röntgen's discovery transformed medicine by allowing doctors to see inside the human body for the first time without surgery, making him one of the most practically impactful scientists in history.
Notable birthdays — March 27
Famous people born on March 27
Carlo Buonaparte
Carlo Maria Buonaparte, also known as Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Charles-Marie Bonaparte, was a Corsican attorney, nobleman, and official, best known as the father of Napoleon Bonaparte and paternal grandfather of Napoleon III.
Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster
Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, was a British Liberal then Labour politician. He was Minister of Civil Aviation under Clement Attlee between 1945 and 1946 and Governor of Cyprus between 1946 and 1949.
Elsie MacGill
Elizabeth Muriel Gregory MacGill, known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes", was a Canadian engineer. She was chief aeronautical engineer at Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) in Fort William, Ontario during the Second World War.
Louis Simpson
Louis Aston Marantz Simpson was an American poet born in Jamaica. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At the End of the Open Road.
Cale Yarborough
William Caleb Yarborough was an American NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner, businessman, farmer, and rancher. He was the first driver in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships, winning in 1976, 1977, and 1978. He was one of the preeminent stock car drivers from the 1960s to the 1980s and also competed in IndyCar events.
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