This day in history-Happy "Birthday" US Navy and Viagra!!!

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1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida.


1625 Charles I ascended the English throne upon the death of James I.


1794 President George Washington and Congress authorized creation of the U.S. Navy.


1836 The first Mormon temple was dedicated, in Kirtland, Ohio.


1939 Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball tournament with a 46-33 victory over Ohio State in Evanston, Ill.


1945 During World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters in Paris that German defenses on the Western Front had been broken.


1964 Alaska was rocked by a powerful earthquake that killed 114 people.


1977 A KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on the Canary Island of Tenerife, killing 582 people.


1996/b> An Israeli court convicted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's confessed assassin of murder, then sentenced former law student Yigal Amir to life in prison.


1997 Dexter King, son of Martin Luther King Jr., met with James Earl Ray, the man in prison for the assassination of the civil rights leader. Ray denied having anything to do with the shooting, to which King replied, "I believe you."


1998 The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer, to fight male impotence.


2001 California regulators approved electricity rate hikes of up to 46 percent.


2002 A suicide bomber killed 29 Israelis during a Passover Seder in Netanya, Israel.


2002 Comedian Milton Berle died at age 93.


2003 Serbian police killed two major suspects in the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.


2006 Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified at his federal trial that he was supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House.


2007 NFL owners voted 30-2 to make the video replay system a permanent officiating tool.



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Current Birthdays


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81 Anthony Lewis
Newspaper columnist


73 Julian Glover
Actor


72 Jerry Lacy
Actor


68 Austin Pendleton
Actor


66 Michael York
Actor


58 Tony Banks
Rock musician (Genesis)


56 Maria Schneider
Actress


49 Andrew Farriss
Rock musician (INXS)


45 Dave Koz
Jazz saxophonist


45 Quentin Tarantino
Director


44 Derrick McKenzie
Rock musician (Jamiroquai)


41 Talisa Soto
Actress


39 Pauley Perrette
Actress


38 Mariah Carey
Singer


38 Brendan Hill
Rock musician (Blues Traveler)


38 Elizabeth Mitchell
Actress


37 Nathan Fillion
Actor ("Desperate Housewives," "Firefly")


24 Emily Ann Lloyd
Actress


13 Taylor Atelian
Actress ("According to Jim")



Historic Birthdays


Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

3/27/1886 - 8/17/1969
German-born American architect
(Go to obit.)



78 Andrew Bell
3/27/1753 - 1/27/1832
Scottish clergyman who developed popular education


66 Alfred-Victor Vigny
3/27/1797 - 9/17/1863
French poet, dramatist and novelist


84 Gloria Swanson
3/27/1899 - 4/4/1983
American film, stage and television actress


83 Otto Wallach
3/27/1847 - 2/26/1931
German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1910)


70 Sir Henry Royce
3/27/1863 - 4/22/1933
English industrialist; a founder of Rolls-Royce Ltd.


78 Patty Smith Hill
3/27/1868 - 5/25/1946
American educator


93 Edward Steichen
3/27/1879 - 3/25/1973
American photographer; a leader of the Photo-Secession Group


74 Sato Eisaku
3/27/1901 - 6/3/1975
Japanese prime minister (1964-72); awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1974)


62 Pee Wee Russell
3/27/1906 - 2/15/1969
American jazz clarinetist


64 Ben Webster
3/27/1909 - 9/20/1973
American jazz musician


33 Denton Welch
3/27/1915 - 12/30/1948
English painter and novelist


66 Sarah Vaughan
3/27/1924 - 4/3/1990
American jazz vocalist and pianist

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html

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