Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 27

March 27: Easter Sunday in Western Christianity (2005)

1513 - Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León first sighted Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth in the New World.
1794 - The United States Navy was established.
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union.
Good Friday Earthquake struck Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska at a magnitude of 9.2, with subsequent tsunamis reaching as far as California and Hawaii
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