^B{^#!16!27 March^N! Feast day of St Rupert, St Athilda, and St John of Egypt.
^B{1794^B} The United States Navy was formed. ^B{1871^B} England and Scotland played their first rugby international, in Edinburgh; Scotland won. ^B{1914^B} The first successful blood transfusion was performed, in a Brussels hospital. ^B{1958^B} Nikita Khrushchev became leader of the Soviet Union. ^B{1964^B} The ten Great Train Robbers who were caught were sentenced to a total of 307 years in prison. ^B{1977^B} Pan Am and KLM jumbo jets collided on the runway at Tenerife airport, in the Canary Islands, killing 574 people.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Henry Royce, English automobile designer and manufacturer, ^B{1863^B}; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect, ^B{1886^B}; Gloria Swanson, US film actress, ^B{1899^B}; Cyrus Vance, US secretary of state, ^B{1917^B}; Sarah Vaughan, US jazz singer, ^B{1924^B}; Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor, ^B{1927^B}; Duncan Goodhew, English Olympic swimmer, ^B{1957^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}King James I of Great Britain, ^B{1625^B}; Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter, ^B{1770^B}; George Gilbert Scott, English architect, ^B{1878^B}; James Dewar, Scottish physicist and chemist who invented the thermos flask, ^B{1923^B}; Arnold Bennett, English novelist, ^B{1931^B}; Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy, ^B{1983^B}.
