📜 This Day in History
March 27
1625Charles I became King of England, Scotland and Ireland.- 1884Outraged by a jury's decision to convict a man of manslaughter instead of murder, a mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, began three days of rioting.
- 1958Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, assumed the office of premier.
- 1993Jiang Zemin succeeded Yang Shangkun to become President of the People's Republic of China.
- 2009A failure of the dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Tangerang, Indonesia, caused floods that killed at least 100 people.
- 2023Forty people are killed in a fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
