Today is Friday, March 27, the 86th day of 2009. There are 279 days left in the year.
1625 _ Charles I, King Of England, Scotland and Ireland, ascends to throne
1790 _ The shoelace invented
1914 _ First successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1931 _ Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
1933 _ Japan leaves League of Nations
1958 _ Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and First Secretary of Communist Party
1973 _ 45th Academy Awards: ``Godfather," Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win; Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1977 _ 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash, Tenerife
1988 _ Ku Ok-hee wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament
1997 _ 39 cult members in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)