March 27

Today in History
• 1003 - Peace deal signed between Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor and the pagan Wends
• 1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population
• 1513 - Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
• 1599 - English nobleman Robert Devereux becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• 1625 - Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland ascends the English throne
• 1668 - English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
• 1721 - France and Spain sign Treaty of Madrid
• 1790 - The modern shoelace with an aglet patented in England by Harvey Kennedy


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Celebrate Exchange Day
• International Scribble Day
• International Whiskey Day
• Myanmar Armed Forces Day
• National Spanish Paella Day
• Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
• Seward’s Day
• World Theatre Day

Birthdays
• 0972 - Robert II of France [the Pious, the Wise], King of the Franks
• 1746 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
• 1780 - August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician, 1st Prussian Railway
• 1784 - Jonathan Jennings, American politician (Governor of Indiana, 1816–1822)
• 1785 - Louis XVII Charles, King of France (1793-95)
• 1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer, Currier and Ives
• 1845 - Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, born in Germany, discovered X-rays
• 1863 - Henry Royce, automobile founder, Rolls-Royce