ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
March 27
1 year ago… Boris gets Covid Just days into a national lockdown due to coronavirus, it’s announced the Prime Minister has tested positive for Covid-19. He would end up in intensive care.
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6 years ago… Kane’s debut goal Harry Kane, below, scores just 80 seconds into his England debut as the Three Lions beat Lithuania 4-0 at Wembley.
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19 years ago… Dudley Moore dies The comic and musician, famous for his double act with Peter Cook and films including Arthur, dies at the age of 66 after suffering with a brain disorder.
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23 years ago… Viagra launches Pfizer’s little blue pill is approved by US regulators as a treatment for erectile dysfunction.
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26 years ago… Oscars triumph Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, scoops six Academy Awards including Best Picture.
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44 years ago… Runway disaster The world’s worst aviation disaster sees 583 die as two Boeing 747 airliners, a KLM and Pan Am plane, collide at Tenerife airport.
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48 years ago… Brando’s boycott Marlon Brando sends Sacheen Littlefeather to the Oscars to decline his award for Best Actor in the Godfather, in a protest against Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans.
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58 years ago… Beeching rail axe Dr Richard Beeching, above, issues his report into the railways calling for hundreds of miles to be cut from the network together with more than 2,000 stations.
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69 years ago… Singin’ In The Rain released The movie, famous for the scene starring Gene Kelly where he dances with an umbrella, below, hits cinemas.
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76 years ago… Last victim Ivy Milichamp, 34, becomes the last casualty of enemy action on British soil during World War Two – the victim of a final V-2 rocket attack by the Germans on Orpington, Kent.
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150 years ago… Momentous match The first international rugby match, played at Edinburgh’s Raeburn Place, sees Scotland beat England.
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396 years ago… Charles I is king! On the death of his father James I, Charles becomes king of England, Scotland and Ireland. He would be executed in 1649, aged 48, following the Civil War.