Bairnsdale Conservative: Wed 27th Mar Todays News

Happy birthday and many happy returns Michael Lee andHelen Huang. Born on the someday, across the years. Not April 1st. One asks if your parents were really trying ..
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Girl rocks a Hendrix song on a Korean instrument called gayageum

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Smuggler agrees Howard successfully stopped the boats

Piers Akerman – Wednesday, March 27, 2013 (1:51am)

THAT the worst is by no means over for Labor was confirmed yesterday in Sydney and Indonesia.

ICAC heard that the disgraced former NSW minister Ian Macdonald was known as “Obeid’s left testicle”, and an alleged head of a people-smuggling syndicate offered advice to the Gillard government on how to stop the boats.

According to senior Labor figures, Macdonald’s preselection was decided over a Chinese lunch attended by Labor heavyweights even though it was recognised he was an agent of powerbroker Eddie Obeid and his Terrigal group.

The Byzantine dealings of the NSW Labor Party are fascinating, and as ICAC is discovering, occasionally disturbingly corrupt but the barbecue stopper was the interview with Sayed Abbas, recognised as one of the most active people smugglers to operate out of Indonesia in recent years.

According to Abbas, Australia could stop the boats if it employed tactics used during John Howard’s time as prime minister.

AAP reported that Abbas is set to face an extradition hearing next month after Australian officials handed over the necessary paperwork late last week.

He is such an identity that he is believed to have remained in business even while he was incarcerated in Salemba prison in Jakarta and asylum-seekers wanting to take boats to Australia contact agents who still work for him.

It is believed his syndicate has pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars by sending dozens of asylum-seeker boats to Christmas Island, including one that sank in December 2011, killing up to 200 people.

Abbas denies all the charges against him, claiming he is the victim of mistaken identity.

But during a lengthy interview at police headquarters in Jakarta, where he has been moved to pending his extradition, he revealed a deep understanding of the people-smuggling business in Indonesia.

He also offered some advice to Australian authorities.

“The Australian government can stop (the boats) like before when John Howard was there,” he told AAP.

“If they were more serious, they could stop. It’s very easy.”

He said turning boats around worked.

“Maybe Australia, with such strong power can stop it like John Howard did. Like in 2001, just shut the channel.

“Not like now when Kevin Rudd opened it again,” he said.

“Before, all boats travelling there, after they left then they were stopped, told to go back again.

“When people in Indonesia found out about this, many illegal tracks were shut.

“Then in 2008, it was opened again.”

Under Howard, four boats were turned back, on others, there were riots and attempts to destroy the craft.

Still, if a smuggler says Howard was a tough customer and his strategy worked, why hasn’t the Labor Party given it a try?

Abbott has promised to slow and stop the boat arrivals.

Abbas seems to think he will be successful.

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HIGHER TAXES, BIGGER DEBT

Tim Blair – Wednesday, March 27, 2013 (4:10pm)

It’s a Labor two-fer:

New data show that across OECD countries the average tax and social security burden on employment incomes increased by 0.1 of a percentage point to 35.6 per cent in 2012. It increased in 19 out of 34 countries, fell in 14, and remained unchanged in 1.

The increases were largest in the Netherlands, Poland and the Slovak Republic (mainly due to increased rates and other changes to employer social security contribution) as well as Spain andAustralia (due to higher statutory income tax rates).

But despite those higher taxes:

Gillard government debt levels are forecast to blow out by 80 per cent to $165 billion in this term alone – that’s a whopping $14,000 for every working Australian.

(Via Ross C.)

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MONTHLY REFINED

Tim Blair – Wednesday, March 27, 2013 (1:26pm)

The Monthly recently celebrated the Prime Minister’s feisty feminism. Sadly, the magazine’s right-on rejoicing was quickly undermined by the PM herself, who turns out to be a fan of bunny-suited radio pigs. Readers to the rescue! Here’s Smike’s updated cover image:

And from Jaki:

David of Riverina:

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Another big boat arrives

Andrew BoltMARCH272013(5:45pm)

Yet another boat arrives, with 147 on board. That’s a lot. The word truly has gone out that we’re a soft touch - at least until the Abbott Government gets in.

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On 2GB, March 27

Andrew Bolt March 27 2013 (5:12pm)

On with Steve Price from 8pm. Listen live here. Talkback: 131 873

Listen to all past shows here. We had a great chat last night with new minister Gary Gray, a friend who I find is not the climate sceptic I painted him as. I think.

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The Monthly given the XXX factor

Andrew Bolt March 27 2013 (3:00pm)

Brilliant. Tim Blair and his readers kindly rework The Monthly’s cover to make it closer to the zeitgeist.
I can’t decide whether the third cover on Blair’s list is the best, or this one:

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Where was the public interest, Doug?

Andrew Bolt March 27 2013 (2:54pm)

Labor Senator Doug Cameron gives News Ltd head Kim Williams a moral sermon in a Senate committee hearing on March 18:

I THINK the hypocrisy is huge with the Murdoch media coming here and lecturing the Senate about privacy laws ... The public interest hasn’t been mentioned in your address. Surely you should have mentioned public interest.

When was the public interest discussed in this conversation?:

SENATOR Doug Cameron saved scandal-plagued NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald because he thought he was “hard-working and competent”.
Giving evidence before the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, Senator Cameron confirmed intervening in a factional coup against Mr Macdonald in 2006 because he believed the minister had “a very long history of involvement in the Left”.
“Nothing had been raised with me about Mr Macdonald’s integrity,” he told ICAC.
Senator Cameron, who was in 2006 the national secretary of the influential Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union, said he argued “we should let him go out with some dignity”, rather than Mr Macdonald being stripped of his preselection.
Senator Cameron added that Mr Macdonald had asked to retain preselection in part because he wanted to go to the Beijing Olympics as a minister.

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This needed saying?

Andrew Bolt March 27 2013 (8:52am)

Professor Sinclair Davidson finds himself in the astonishing position of having to argue in the Financial Review that putting our mining industry in the hands of communists wouldn’t actually be a good idea.

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Who’d now keep their money in a Spanish bank?

Andrew Bolt March 27 2013 (8:09am)

Stealing 40 per cent from big bank accounts is the kind of European “rescue” that tells everyone their money is not safe in a bank:

CYPRUS warned that “superhuman” efforts were needed to reopen its banks by Thursday as protests and uncertainty about the island’s top lender showed that its huge bailout had not ended its troubles…
Banks were shut for an 11th day, leaving homes and businesses on the Mediterranean island short of cash…
[Central bank governor Panicos] Demetriades said the delay in reopening them was to fully install capital controls that would prevent depositors from draining their accounts, and the need to strengthen Bank of Cyprus, the number one lender.

Is there any wonder there are now fears of runs on banks in Italy and Spain?:

A rescue program agreed for Cyprus on Monday represents a new template for resolving euro zone banking problems and other countries may have to restructure their banking sectors, the head of the region’s finance ministers said.
“What we’ve done last night is what I call pushing back the risks,” Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers, told Reuters and the Financial Times hours after the Cyprus deal was struck.
“If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be ‘Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about that? What can you do to recapitalize yourself?’. If the bank can’t do it, then we’ll talk to the shareholders and the bondholders, we’ll ask them to contribute in recapitalizing the bank, and if necessary the uninsured deposit holders,” he said…
Asked what the new approach meant for euro zone countries with highly leveraged banking sectors, such as Luxembourg and Malta, and for other countries with banking problems such as Slovenia, Dijsselbloem said they would have to shrink banks down.
“… realize that if a bank gets in trouble, the response will no longer automatically be that we’ll come and take away your problem. We’re going to push them back.”

Oops.

A few hours later, as markets tanked, his office issued a statement proclaiming:

Cyprus is a specific case with exceptional challenges which required the bail-in measures we have agreed upon yesterday.
Macro-economic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.
The walkback is unlikely to satisfy critics who contend a clumsy execution of the Cyprus bailout by euro-zone policy makers has needlessly raised the odds of bank runs across the periphery of the euro zone…
Even before Dijsselbloem’s remarks — and subsequent reversal — Monday, some economists feared the Cyprus precedent would come back to haunt euro-zone policy makers by amplifying the potential for deposit flight the next time trouble flares up in a bigger euro-zone economy, such as Italy or Spain.

In fact, Dijsselbloem is voicing the frustration of richer and more responsible European countries at having to bail out poorer and more profligate ones.
And so they all sink, in a death-grapple.
UPDATE
Terry McCrann:

The original proposal to bail out Cyprus was a catastrophic stupidity. For the first time in the sorry saga of post-GFC bailouts, small insured depositors in banks were going to lose some of their money…
But it stepped over a line… In short, you could not ask for a better mechanism to spark pre-emptive cascading bank runs, right across Europe…
Those “smartest guys in the room” hurriedly came up with a “smarter” idea. They wouldn’t take anything from smaller depositors; they’d take instead much more from the big depositors, over 100,000… Under the “improved” plan, they could lose 30-40 per cent of their money…
So the price of avoiding bank runs elsewhere in Europe from small depositors, is to give big depositors even more reason to run at the first whiff of trouble…
And who do you think could take out a lot of money from a bank in a very short time? Thousands of people with small deposits, or tens of companies and millionaire/billionaires with big deposits?…
The cure will almost certainly prove worse than having let Cyprus go under.

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Geldof: icon of the Age of Seeming

Andrew Bolt March 27 2013 (7:27am)

Lateline last night seemed a satire on modern charities of the “seeming, not doing” kind:

DAVID JONES: We launched the One Young World social business fund.
EMMA ALBERICI: Tell us one of those successes?
DAVID JONES: One interesting thing from Parker who at the age of 16 became the youngest person in history to ski to the geographic North Pole and on the way was taking samples to show how the polar caps are melting faster…

So the first “success” cited by the charity is some teenager having a whale of an adventure on the pretext of doing “research” of next to no scientific use.

Sir Bob Geldof was also in the studio, and provided an even more bizarre example of the great Seeming Not Doing movement:

EMMA ALBERICI: So how do you explain the disaster of the Occupy movement which was
SIR BOB GELDOF: I don’t think it was a disaster. I think it was a fantastic thing.
EMMA ALBERICI: But what did it achieve?
SIR BOB GELDOF: It achieved a lot. No.
…. But also the fact that they didn’t have an agenda, you know, but the point is… but the failure of Occupy is that nobody could say what they wanted. They could say it was just ‘f… off, everything, just f… off, it’s crap’.
Brilliant, that’s enough. We resist. We say no. What do you say no about? The lot. Everything.

Yes, a great success. They said “f… off” and then went home. Attitude struck.
Geldof is very big on attitude, of course. Much bigger on attitude than on logic or consequence. He’s a perfect icon for the age, as he proceeded to demonstrate with this astonishing stream of incoherence:

SIR BOB GELDOF: His message and my message are different. You’re in a difficult position as an interviewer. You’re asking him about One Young World and you’re asking me about ODA and, you know, it limits the sort of… I hear you get extravagant in your language, but the war on poverty. Everything he talks about and everything you talk about in your profession, climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, all those things, come from poverty, come from the scourge of poverty…

The key issue there is speed because what everything requires now is the long term and our electoral cycle doesn’t allow for that. The four year basis, if Julia goes to the electorate or Tony Abbott goes to the electorate and says look, this is where we need to be, it’s a 20 year pop, do you agree with us or not, it’s 20 years but you’ve got to put up with us and you know what, 20 years there’s going to be corruption. Once we’re in power it all begins to go pear shaped are you prepared to put up with it?
Honest to God, the implication of this little thing in your pocket we haven’t a clue what it means. You know, him and his cohorts they’re supposed to be doing this every day but we’ve no understanding of the implication just like we had no understanding of what the car and the phone meant in 1913. No understanding that immense suburbs that meant a difference at the cities, that people stay at home. No understanding of the change of psychology and the death of distance meant the death of trust, all those sort of things.
Nothing, and we’re groping towards it. So it’s easy to turn on Tony Abbott or Julia Gillard or David Cameron, it’s easy.
You’ve got four years to resolve the GFC in your country, it’s global, hello. You’re not going to resolve it in France by getting up and saying this, that and the other. The people who wrote the 20th century probably were Darwin, Freud and Marx.
My aunty is 104, she’s alive. And she said in 1913 nobody had a clue that the world was about to commit suicide. No one. A year later, we’re 2013, whoever the Darwin, Freud and Marx of the 21st century are they’ve written it. Who are they? Where are they? Who’s groping towards an understanding of a difference, that business really hasn’t grasped yet so you see it floundering and falling apart. The politics haven’t grasped yet so you see them flounder and fall about in their four year cycles.
You know, we live through an age of volatility and mistrust. It’s an exciting age, we will talk about it in 300 years. It’s exciting to be alive.

It doesn’t matter what you actually say, let alone do.
Just seem.

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From too few to worry about to too many to stop

Andrew Bolt March 27 2013 (7:19am)

Boat people policy

They were so blind to the fact that the success of a few would encourage the many:

[In 2010], civil libertarian Julian Burnside mocked people who worried about the boat people starting to stream in through Labor’s open door.
”If it keeps up at this rate, it would take about 20 years to fill the MCG with boat arrivals,” the QC scoffed.
Many of the Left were impressed by this airy dismissal.
Take Prime Minister Julia Gillard: “Mr Burnside is very, very right. This is a point well made.”

So we’ve gone in a flash from too few to worry about to too many to stop:

All up, 3111 passengers have arrived in Australia seeking asylum this year, compared with 1302 in the first full three months of last year.
If the trend continues, there could be more than 35,000 asylum seekers arriving by boat by the end of the year, more than double the record intake of 2012.

I suspect 35,000 is far too alarmist. But even the 17,000 boat people who came last year represent a rate of arrival enough to fill the MCG within six years - and that’s after excluding family reunions.

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Road to Greece: Gillard spends $75 billion she’s just borrowed

Andrew Bolt March 27 2013 (3:25am)

The Gillard Government is spending billions it’s borrowed - and which we will have to repay:

Analysis of Budget documents reveals that between the 2010 election and Federal Treasury’s update in October last year, the 2012-13 net debt estimate rose $54 billion to $144 billion.
With Wayne Swan having junked the Government’s commitment to a surplus this financial year, Bank of America Merrill Lynch now forecasts Treasury will raise the estimate by a further $21 billion in the May budget…
Ahead of the budget, the Coalition is honing in on a number even larger than net debt - the total value of bonds and other securities issued by the Government, or gross debt, which has ballooned from $151 billion at the 2010 poll to $267 billion now. In the last budget the Government raised the gross “debt ceiling” from $250 billion to $300 billion.

That means the Gillard Government in its first term will have spent $75 billion it doesn’t have. And it goes into the election promising massive new welfare and education spending.
The bungles add to the waste:

The government budgeted for just 12,000 asylum seekers this financial year but the latest two boats, carrying 105 and 83 people, took the number of arrivals for 2012-13 past 15,200.

And still three months to go in the year.
The way to stop this march towards Greece?

CURBING Australia’s chronic and growing welfare “churn” - including ditching Family Tax Benefit B and the controversial Schoolkids’ Bonus - provides the key to returning the budget to surplus and boosting economic efficiency.
As the government scrambles for savings in the lead-up to the May budget, a Sydney think tank estimates more than half the money spent on social security, health and education across state and federal governments - more than $315 billion a year - involves collecting taxes and returning them to the same taxpayers in the form of cash payments and subsidised services.
The Centre for Independent Studies’ latest report, released today, recommends scrapping the principle of universal “free” healthcare embodied in Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and means-testing medical services and drugs in the same way government allowances and pensions are means-tested…
The study also argues the assets test for the age pension - the biggest federal expenditure - should include the “family home"…
Mr Baker calculates that churn ties up about 70,000 federal public servants and costs about $7bn a year in administration costs - about 4 per cent of the commonwealth’s annual welfare expenditure.
“The ATO spends another $3.2bn on tax collection,” he says...

But with 6 million Australians now living on state benefits or salaries, which political party dares save us from the Age of Entitlement?
UPDATE
The unpretty face of the Entitled Australian:

‘The Australian public ... seem to expect that the full suite of welfare services will extend to them across the globe no matter where they go or how they behave,’’ the report says, citing a couple who wanted frequent flyer points while being evacuated from Cairo on a government-chartered rescue flight.

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Gillard’s protection racket

Andrew Bolt March 27 2013 (3:01am)

The first sin is that the Gillard Government is spending more billions it doesn’t have - and which others must later repay.
The second is that it is spending those billions to help the unions propping up the Prime Minister:

UNIONS are capitalising on the government’s latest spending programs to launch membership drives that target more than 300,000 workers in another sign of the way federal policies are aiding union objectives.
The campaigns urge workers to join a union to gain some of the $1.5 billion in taxpayer funds being spent on childcare and aged care in Labor’s election-year promise to lift wages in both sectors.
Employers fear conditions placed on the federal cash have given the unions a new way to build membership and issue wage claims because money will flow only to centres that sign enterprise bargaining agreements with their staff.
The United Voice union is leading the campaign by telling workers to expect pay rises of up to $10,571 a year under the government schemes as long as they follow a three-step plan that starts with joining the union.

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Can’t be in the same state together

Andrew Bolt March 27 2013 (2:51am)

How do you know Julia Gillard is visiting Western Australia? WA Opposition Leader Mark McGowan has vanished:

Last time she visited Perth, McGowan jumped on a plane to Bali.
This week, Gillard is scheduled to be in Perth and McGowan is again on holidays.
And let’s not forget that McGowan told Gillard not to visit WA during the election campaign - which he lost by a country mile.

(Thanks to reader DP.)

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Ode to a Car… or Mountain with a Vue

We still miss this hunk of metal and rubber which took us across the USA two summers back, plus many trips to the Eastern Sierras.

Alas, the very reason that Saturn went under… the VTI transmission… was what killed ours as well.

The Nissan Altima doesn't hold a candle to this noble ride.

okay, I went a little too far huh?

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4 her
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Breaking Dawn. San Francisco wakes up under a high fog covered sky. — at Kirby Cove.
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Climate models are not good enough

Only a few climate models were able to reproduce the observed changes in extreme precipitation in China over the last 50 years. This is the finding of a doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Climate models are the only means to predict future changes in climate and weather.

“It is therefore extremely important that we investigate global climate models’ own performances in simulating extremes with respect to observations, in order to improve our opportunities to predict future weather changes,” says Tinghai Ou from the University of Gothenburg’s Department of Earth Sciences.

Tinghai has analysed the model simulated extreme precipitation in China over the last 50 years.

“The results show that climate models give a poor reflection of the actual changes in extreme precipitation events that took place in China between 1961 and 2000,” he says. “Only half of the 21 analysed climate models analysed were able to reproduce the changes in some regions of China. Few models can well reproduce the nationwide change.”

For more : http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/25/climate-models-arent-good-enough-to-hindcast-says-new-study/
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Absolutely gorgeous Spring Day here in North Fork!!
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In the small town of Eden, N.Y., the recent appearance of mysterious circles in a frozen pond has residents baffled. What do you think caused these circles? http://oak.ctx.ly/r/3cl0
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This is Labor's counter argument. Don't let the Liberals continue their shameless scare campaign on Australia's modest debt levels.
The debt isn't even necessary. It isn't as if they are doing something worthwhile with it. Worse service than Howard government .. ed
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Congrats to Dom Rhodes who just made his 1000th phonecall. Here is State Director Mark Neeham presenting Dom with his tshirt & hat as thanks for his hard work.Thanks Dom!

Join our phone call challenge today and help us get Australia back on track! http://www.nsw.liberal.org.au/get_involved
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Labor likes to compare Australia's debt to other countries like Greece. The reality is that under the Labor government we have gone from having no debt to over $150 billion net debt in just five years.
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Under Labor’s record debt, the interest payments this year alone on this debt stack up to $7 billion. This would be enough to fund the NDIS.
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The eruption of Krakatoa in August 1883 was one of the most deadly volcanic eruptions of modern history with more than 36,000 estimated deaths. Learn more about the Krakatoa Volcano:http://oak.ctx.ly/r/3ckl

Below, an 1888 lithograph of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.
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Meanwhile @ the Chicago Teachers Union...
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Time wasting activity #257
Do you think he found his photo?
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Real Hollywood Heroes: Charlton Heston Speaks at Harvard Law School (Video)

That scares me to death, and it should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. You are the best and the brightest. You, here in this fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River. You are the cream. But I submit that you and your counterparts across the land are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that and abide it, you are, by your grandfathers’ standards, cowards.

http://independentfilmnewsandmedia.com/charlton-heston-speaks-harvard-law-school/
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Hanks bonds with son in fake drunk pictures
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It was an honour and privilege to catch up with the Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition, The Hon Julie Bishop MP today.
Whilst Labor is divided and dysfunctional the Coalition remains united in it’s positive plan for the future of Australia. A plan achievable due to the calibre and expertise of highly respected Liberal politicians such as Julie.
It was a pleasure to meet you today Julie and thank you for your support in Dobell. — with Jim Picot, Ken Duncan, Julie Bishop and Julie Bishop MP.
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Hi everyone! Here's the MichelleMalkin.com newsletter for March 26th. Enjoy!

Safety tip: Don’t handle a gun like the guy in Mayor Bloomberg’s ad

Michael Bloomberg’s organization, “Mayors Against ~~salt smoking trans fats global warming large sodas~~ Illegal Guns,” placed a $12 million ad buy in ten states...

Please click here to read the rest

Thomas Sowell: Can it happen here?

Dennis Prager: Florida Atlantic U., left-wing university

Hot Air: NEA’s Legacy: $310 Million in Direct Campaign Spending Since 2000

Twitchy: Juan Williams defends ‘critical thinking’ exercise involving stomping on ‘Jesus’

Twitchy: Man of the people: How did Rob Reiner coast to the front of the line at SCOTUS today?

Why so bitter, Bobby?

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March 27

1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a leading British Whig Party statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the execution of about 400 Texian prisoners of war.
1899 – Philippine–American War: Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo led the troops himself against the US for the only time in the war in the Battle of Marilao River.
1958 – First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev (pictured) also took over the role of Premier.
2002 – A suicide bomber killed about 30 Israeli civilians and injured about 140 others at the Park Hotel in Netanya, triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorist Israeli military incursion into the West Bank, two days later.
2009 – The dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake inTangerang District, Indonesia, failed, resulting in floods killing at least 100 people.

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Events

196 BC – Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
1812 – Hugh McGary Jr. established what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeat England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army.
1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo led Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine-American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1918 – Bessarabia joins the Kingdom of Romania.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces interceptJapanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1963 – Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
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.
1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLMand 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
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.
2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
2002 – Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
2004 – HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2009 – Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2009 – A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.

[edit]Births

972 – King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
1306 – Philip III of Navarre (d. 1343)
1416 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d. 1480)
1627 – Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
1676 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian nationalist (d. 1735)
1696 – Antoine Court, French minister (d. 1760)
1702 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (d. 1762)
1709 – William Flackton, English bookseller, publisher, organist, violinist, viola player and composer (d. 1798)
1710 – Joseph Abaco, Belgian violoncellist and composer (d. 1805)
1712 – Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
1714 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
1730 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar and critic (d. 1786)
1746 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
1760 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer (d. 1832)
1761 – James Sykes, American politician, 14th Governor of Delaware (d. 1822)
1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
1767 – Charles Didelot, French-Ukrainian dancer and choreographer (d. 1837)
1784 – Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, Hungarian philologist (d. 1842)
1785 – King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
1787 – Pierre Antoine Delalande, French naturalist and explorer (d. 1823)
1797 – Alfred de Vigny, French author (d. 1863)
1801 – Alexander Barrow, American politician (d. 1846)
1809 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, Canadian politician (d. 1886)
1809 – Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)
1810 – William Hepworth Thompson, English scholar (d. 1886)
1813 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888)
1817 – Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist and botanist (d. 1891)
1818 – Erminia Frezzolini, Italian operatic soprano ⟨d. 1884⟩
1839 – John Ballance, New Zealand politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
1844 – Adolphus Greely, American explorer and general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1935)
1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
1851 – Vincent d'Indy, French opera composer and teacher (d. 1931)
1857 – Karl Pearson, English statistician and mathematician (d. 1936)
1859 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
1860 – Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
1863 – Sir Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d. 1933)
1865 – Alessandro Verde, Italian cardinal and archbishop (d. 1958)
1868 – Patty Smith Hill, American educator (d. 1946)
1869 – James McNeill, Irish politician and diplomat (d. 1938)
1871 – Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (d. 1948)
1871 – Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
1875 – Jean Cau, French rower
1877 – Oscar Grégoire, Belgian water polo player and swimmer (d. 1947)
1879 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
1879 – Sándor Garbai, Hungarian Politician (d. 1947)
1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
1883 – Paul McCullough, American actor and comedian (d. 1936)
1886 – Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
1888 – Bouke Benenga, Dutch freestyle swimmer and water polo player (d. 1968)
1890 – Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, British navy officer (d. 1974)
1892 – Ferde Grofé, American composer and pianist (d. 1972)
1892 – Dorrit Weixler, German actress (d. 1916)
1893 – Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)
1894 – René Fonck, French aviator (d. 1953)
1895 – Betty Schade, German-born American actress (d. 1982)
1895 – Roland Leighton, English soldier and poet (d. 1915)
1898 – Maria Rasputin, Russian daughter of Grigori Rasputin (d. 1977)
1898 – Alma Tell, American actress (d. 1937)
1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
1897 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1958)
1901 – Carl Barks, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
1901 – Eisaku Sato, Japanese statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
1901 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
1902 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 – Leif Tronstad, Norwegian scientist (d. 1945)
1904 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican playwright (d. 1950)
1905 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1905 – László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1976)
1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American jazz musician (d. 1969)
1909 – Golo Mann, German historian (d. 1994)
1909 – Ben Webster, American jazz and tenor saxophonist (d. 1973)
1912 – James Callaghan, British politician (d. 2005)
1913 – Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945)
1914 – Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
1914 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (d. 2009)
1914 – Krit Srivara, Thai commander (d. 1976)
1915 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (d. 2006)
1917 – Cyrus Vance, American politician, 57th United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
1917 – Reva Gerstein, Canadian Psychologist
1920 – Robin Jacques, British illustrator (d. 1995)
1920 – Richard Hayman, American conductor
1921 – Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
1921 – Richard Marner, Russian-Scottish actor (d. 2004)
1921 – Hélène Berr, French novelist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
1921 – Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (d. 2010)
1922 – Barnaby Conrad, American author (d. 2013)
1922 – Dick King-Smith English author (d. 2011)
1922 – Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1923 – Endo Shusaku, Japanese author (d. 1996)
1923 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican poet (d. 2012)
1924 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
1926 – Frank O'Hara, American poet (d. 1966)
1927 – Jean Beetz, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 1991)
1927 – Anthony Lewis, American journalist and writer
1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
1927 – Johnny Copeland, American Texas blues guitarist and singer (d. 1997)
1929 – Sybil Christopher, Welsh-American actress (d. 2013)
1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1930 – Daniel Spoerri, Swiss painter
1930 – Bob den Uyl, Dutch writer (d. 1992)
1931 – David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
1932 – Roberto Farias, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
1932 – Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, Spanish politician, Mayor of Madrid (d. 1991)
1933 – Robert Castel, French sociologist (d. 2013)
1934 – Peter Schamoni, German director and producer (d. 2011)
1935 – Abelardo Castillo, Argentinian writer
1935 – Julian Glover, British actor
1935 – Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (d. 1981)
1936 – Otmar Issing, German economist
1937 – Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
1939 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver and businessman
1939 – Bruce Johnston, American convicted murderer and rapist (d. 2002)
1940 – Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
1940 – Austin Pendleton, American actor
1940 – Silvano Bertini, Italian boxer
1941 – Ivan Gašparovič, Slovakian politician, President of the Slovak Republic
1941 – Liese Prokop, Austrian athlete and politician (d. 2006)
1942 – John E. Sulston, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Michael York, English actor
1942 – Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
1943 – Mike Curtis, American football player
1944 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
1944 – Miguel Enríquez, Chilean physician and activist (d. 1974)
1945 – Władysław Stachurski, Polish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1946 – Michael Aris, British academic (d. 1999)
1946 – Andy Bown, English bass player and songwriter (Status Quo (band) and Judas Jump)
1946 – Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
1947 – Marc-Yvan Côté, Canadian politician
1947 – Brian Jones, British balloonist
1947 – Aad de Mos, Dutch football coach
1947 – Oliver Friggieri, Maltese philosopher, academic, poet, and author
1947 – Walt Mossberg, American journalist
1947 – Craig Defoy, Welsh golfer
1948 – Jens-Peter Bonde, Danish politician
1949 – Dubravka Ugrešić, Croatian author
1949 – Serguei Pershin, Russian astrobiologist
1950 – Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
1950 – Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician and academic
1950 – Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1952 – Jan Albers, Dutch field hockey player
1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
1952 – Richard Séguin, Canadian singer and songwriter
1952 – Dana Stabenow, American author
1953 – Edwarda O'Bara, American coma patient (d. 2012)
1953 – Herman Ponsteen, Dutch cyclist
1953 – George Copos, Romanian businessman
1954 – Robbie Haines, American sailor
1955 – Patrick McCabe (novelist), Irish novelist and dramatist
1955 – Lefteris Pantazis, Greek singer
1955 – Mariano Rajoy, Spanish politician
1955 – Christian Sarron, French motorcyclist
1956 – Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong activist
1956 – Thomas Wassberg, Swedish skier
1956 – Dale Arnold, American sports commentator and radio personality
1957 – Nick Hawkins, British politician
1957 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997)
1957 – Kostas Vasilakakis, Greek footballer and football manager
1959 – Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
1959 – Mariusz Strzałka, Polish fencer
1960 – Hans Pflügler, German footballer
1960 – Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Legião Urbana and Aborto Elétrico) (d. 1996)
1960 – Mark Lovell, English Rally driver (d. 2003)
1961 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z and TMG)
1961 – Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
1962 – Kevin J. Anderson, American science fiction author
1962 – Jann Arden, Canadian singer-songwriter
1962 – Rob Hollink, Dutch poker player
1962 – John O'Farrell, British broadcaster, author and satirist
1963 – Charly Alberti, Argentinian musician (Soda Stereo)
1963 – Randall Cunningham, American football player
1963 – Bedabrata Pain, Indian film director, producer, and inventor
1963 – Dave Koz, American saxophonist
1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
1963 – Jörg Michael, German drummer (Stratovarius)
1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian actress, children's entertainer, singer, and television host
1964 – Glenn Carter, English actor and singer
1964 – Kad Merad, French-Algerian actor
1966 – Paula Trickey, American actress
1966 – Haruto Umezawa, Japanese manga artist
1966 – Manny Tolentino, Filipino tennis player
1966 – Žarko Paspalj, Serbian basketball player
1967 – David Bavaro, American football player
1967 – Talisa Soto, American actress
1967 – Kenta Kobashi, Japanese wrestler
1968 – Sandra Hess, Swiss actress and model
1968 – Stacey Kent, American jazz vocalist
1969 – Kevin Corrigan, American actor
1969 – Stéphane Morin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
1969 – Victoria O'Keefe, British actress (d. 1990)
1970 – Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player
1970 – Kathalijne Buitenweg, Dutch politician
1970 – Brent Fitz, Canadian musician (Theory of a Deadman, Union, Econoline Crush, and Indigenous)
1970 – Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler and Stolen Ogre)
1970 – Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
1970 – Mariah Carey, American singer and actress
1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
1970 – Uwe Rosenberg, German board game designer
1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish Formula One driver
1971 – Matthew Pegg, British bassist (Procol Harum)
1971 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
1972 – Charles Doyle Haas II, American wrestler
1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
1973 – Ade Adepitan, British wheelchair basketball player
1973 – Rui Jorge, Portuguese footballer
1974 – Russ Haas, American wrestler (d. 2001)
1974 – George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer
1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
1975 – Fergie, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas and Wild Orchid)
1975 – Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
1976 – Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
1976 – Danny Fortson, American basketball player
1976 – Carl Ng, Hong Kong-British actor and model
1977 – Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
1977 – Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
1977 – Ioannis Melissanidis, Greek artistic gymnast
1978 – Noname Jane, American porn actress and model
1979 – Michael Cuddyer, American baseball player
1979 – Denis Golovanov, Russian tennis player
1979 – Lee Ji-hoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
1980 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian singer and songwriter (Lùnapop)
1980 – Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player
1981 – Carey Davis, American football player
1981 – Lin Jun Jie, Chinese singer and actor
1981 – Jukka Keskisalo, Finnish runner
1981 – Cacau, German-Brazilian soccer player
1981 – Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
1981 – Brian Miner, American comedian
1982 – Kurara Chibana, Japanese model, 1st Runner-up for Miss Universe 2006
1982 – Iman Crosson, American actor, impressionist and dancer
1983 – Yunus İçuz, Turkish footballer
1984 – Nesar Ahmad Bahave, Afghan martial artist
1984 – Michaël Cordier, Belgian footballer
1984 – Laura Critchley, British singer-songwriter
1984 – Brett Holman, Australian footballer
1984 – Ben Franks, New Zealand rugby player
1985 – Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
1985 – Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
1985 – Alison Carroll, English model
1985 – Caroline Winberg, Swedish model
1986 – Melissa Stern (Baby M), American custody case figure
1986 – Chris Lofton, American basketball player
1986 – SoCal Val, American wrestler and valet
1986 – Dan Bull, British rapper
1986 – Manuel Neuer, German footballer
1986 – George Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player
1987 – Cláudio, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Buster Posey, American baseball player
1987 – Victor Vito, New Zealand rugby player
1988 – Brenda Song, American actress
1988 – Jessie J, British singer
1990 – Alessio Bugno, Italian footballer
1990 – Kimbra Johnson, New Zealand singer-songwriter
1990 – Nicolas N'Koulou, Cameroonian footballer
1990 – Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer
1990 – Janina Toljan, Austrian tennis player
1992 – Pedro Obiang, Spanish footballer
1992 – Aoi Yūki, Japanese voice actress
1994 – Lucia Mokrášová, Slovak heptathlete

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[edit]Deaths

710 – Rupert of Salzburg
973 – Herman, Duke of Saxony
1191 – Pope Clement III (b. 1130)
1350 – King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
1378 – Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
1462 – Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
1482 – Mary of Burgundy (b. 1457)
1555 – William Hunter, Protestant martyr
1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. c. 1523)
1625 – King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
1635 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat (b. 1597)
1679 – Abraham Minjon, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
1757 – Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)
1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (b. 1696)
1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
1836 – James Fannin, American military figure on the Texas Army and leader during the Texas Revolution (b. 1804)
1843 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
1849 – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)
1850 – Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b. 1797)
1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
1865 – Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1875 – Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
1878 – Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811)
1879 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (b. 1868)
1889 – John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
1897 – Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
1898 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian educator and politician (b. 1817)
1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835)
1918 – Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
1918 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-born athlete (b. 1881)
1923 – Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
1924 – Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841)
1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1927 – Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
1931 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)
1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer, politician and statesman, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
1940 – Madeleine Astor, RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1893)
1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand Prime Minister (b. 1872)
1952 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japan industrialist (b. 1894)
1965 – Dirk Lotsy, Dutch footballer (b. 1882)
1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1967 – Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
1972 – Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician (b. 1904)
1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)
1977 – A. P. Hamann, American politician (b. 1909)
1977 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
1977 – Eve Meyer, American model (b. 1928)
1977 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch Aviator (b. 1927)
1978 – Nat Bailey, Canadian restaurateur, founder of White Spot (b. 1902)
1981 – Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and news presenter (b. 1916)
1981 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1982 – Betty Schade, German-born American actress (b. 1895)
1988 – Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
1989 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
1989 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)
1991 – Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)
1991 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
1992 – Easley Blackwood, American bridge player (b. 1903)
1993 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1931)
1993 – Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900)
1995 – René Allio, French director (b. 1924)
1996 – Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (b. 1944)
1998 – David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
1998 – Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
2000 – Ian Dury, English musician (The Blockheads) (b. 1942)
2002 – Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
2002 – Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
2002 – Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
2003 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
2003 – Ricardo Munguía, Salvadoran aid worker (b. 1960)
2003 – Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
2004 – Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)
2005 – Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor (b. 1949)
2005 – Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
2005 – Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
2005 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
2006 – Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
2006 – Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
2006 – Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
2006 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
2008 – George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
2009 – Jack Dreyfus, American financial expert and the founder of the Dreyfus Funds (b. 1913)
2009 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist (b. 1922)
2010 – Dick Giordano, American comic book artist and editor (b. 1932)
2010 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster and World Chess Champion (b. 1921)
2011 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
2012 – Hilton Kramer, American critic and essayist (b. 1928)
2012 – Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist, and feminist (b. 1929)
2012 – Warren Stevens, American actor (b. 1919)

[edit]Holidays and observances

Armed Forces Day or Tatmadaw nei (Burma)
Christian Feast Day:
- Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century.
- Amador of Portugal
- Augusta of Treviso
- Gelasius
- John of Egypt
- Philetus and companies
- Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730.
- Rupert of Salzburg
- Zanitas and Lazarus of Persia
- March 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
World Theatre Day (International)

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