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THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Monday, 27 March 2023
2011

Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing won the Australian Grand Prix, inaugurating his successful run in the 2011 Formula One season.

2009

The Situ Gintung Dam in Indonesia burst, killing at least 99 people in a flash flood.

1993

Jiang Zemin was appointed President of the People's Republic of China.

1977

574 people died in the worst accident in aviation history. A KLM jumbo jet and a Pan Am 747 collided and exploded in a ball of flames on the runway at Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

1968

Yuri Gagarin (b. 1934), the Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to journey into outer space, died in a plane crash.

1966

Suharto became President of Indonesia and held office for 31 years until 1998.

1964

Anchorage, Alaska was struck by the 9.2 magnitude Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history killing 125 people and causing great destruction.

1958

Nikita Khrushchev became the Premier of the Soviet Union.

1945

The heavily fortified Japanese island south of Tokyo, Iwo Jima, was captured by American forces after four days of fighting. Around 22,000 Japanese soldiers and 6000 U.S. men were killed

1933

Polythene was discovered by Reginald Gibson and Eric William Fawcett.

1855

Abraham Gesner patented kerosene.

1668

English King Charles II signed a Royal Charter presenting Bombay to the East India Company for an annual rent of £10.

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