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Friday, 27 March 2026

2009

Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.

2004

{{HMS|Scylla|F71}}, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

2002

Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.

2000

A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.

1999

An F-117 Nighthawk is shot down during the Kosovo War.

1998

The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.

1994

One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.

The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.

1993

Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.

Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.

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