Today is Tuesday, March 27, the 87th day of 2012. There are 279 days left in the year.
1625 ― Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & 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
1933 ― Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
1945 ― Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 U.S. soldiers killed
1958 ― Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and first secretary of Communist Party
1966 ― Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in U.S., Europe and Australia
1988 ― Ku Ok-hee wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament