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.
- 1964 - The 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.
- 1977 - Two Boeing 747 airliners collided in the Tenerife disaster on Tenerife of the Canary Islands, killing 583 people in one of the worst aircraft accidents in aviation history.