Today is Saturday, March 27, the 86th day of 2010. There are 279 days left in the year.
1713 _ Spain loses Menorca and Gibraltar
1855 _ Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1924 _ Canada recognizes USSR
1945 _ Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 U.S. soldiers killed
1945 _ General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1956 _ U.S. seizes communist newspaper ``Daily Worker"
1958 _ Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and first secretary of Communist Party
1973 _ 45th Academy Awards: ``Godfather", Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win, Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1988 _ Ku Ok-hee wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament
1988 _ World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA)