Sunday, March 27, 2011

March 27

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1309 Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population. The Church City Gold Afternoon Fix
2 1814 War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The White Stripes St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air) Icky Thump
3 1851 First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans. Thee Silver Moutain Reveries There's a River in the Valley Made of Melting Snow Pretty Little Lightning Paw
4 1884 A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse. Kaiser Chiefs The Angry Mob Yours Truly, Angry Mob
5 1886 Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars. The Shadows Apache Apache
6 1915 Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life. The Everly Brothers Take a Message to Mary Take a Message to Mary
7 1980 Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges. Echo and the Bunnymen Silver Ocean Rain

(Historical facts about March 27 are from Wikipedia.)

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