What happend on 27th March

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1986

Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer, Angela Taylor and injuring 21 people.

1980

The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

1977

Tenerife disaster: Two jumbo jets collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583.

1976

The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC subway system is opened.

1969

Mariner 7 is launched.

1964

The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.

1963

Dr Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. See Beeching axe.

1958

Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

1952

Sun Records begins operations.

1945

World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.