Today is Wednesday, March 27, the 86th day of 2013. 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
1940 ― Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
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
1979 ― Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars
1988 ― Ku Ok-hee wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament