This Day in History
March 27, 2026
2023
2023 Nashville school shooting
Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.
2023
Ciudad Juárez migrant center fire
Forty people are killed in a fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
2016
2016 Lahore suicide bombing
A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.
2015
Al-Shabaab (militant group)
Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
2014
Government of the Philippines
Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
2009
Situ Gintung
The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2004
HMS Scylla (F71)
HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2002
Passover massacre
Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.
2002
Nanterre massacre
Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured.
2000
2000 Phillips explosion
A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
1999
Kosovo War
Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
1998
Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
1993
Christian Democracy (Italy)
Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1990
Cuban dissident movement
The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí.
1986
Car bomb
A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
1981
Solidarity (Polish trade union)
The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1980
Alexander L. Kielland (platform)
The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1977
Tenerife airport disaster
Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the deadliest aviation accident in history.