TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2020

Today in history:

1860 – The corkscrew was patented by M.L. Byrn.

1866 – President Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.

1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.

1886 – Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.

1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.

1941 – World War II: Yugoslav Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.

1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan’s ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.

1977 – Deadliest aviation accident in history – Tenerife. Two jumbo jets collide on a foggy runway in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am) with 61 surviving on the Pan Am flight.

1980 – Norwegian oil platform collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.