Today in History - History - March 27th

1950Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleve OH)

1951Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"

1855Abraham Gesner patents kerosene

1983Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1942Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC)

1625Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne

1863American Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer

1668English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company

1983Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" premieres in NYC

1985Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

1963Quentin Tarantino, director/screenwriter (Pulp Fiction)

1971Mariah Carey, NYC, singer (Love Takes Time, Hero)

1899Gloria Swanson, Chicago Illinois, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly)

1975Fergie Duhamel, Hacienda Heights, California, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)

1998Novelist Danielle Steel (50) weds financier Thomas James Perkins (66)

1954Actress Elizabeth Montgomery (20) weds socialite Frederick Gallatin Cammann

1916Actress Gloria Swanson (17) weds actor Wallace Beery (30)

1958Writer Gabriel García Márquez (31) weds Mercedes Barcha

1968Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34

1625James VI and I, Scottish born King of Scotland )1657-1625) and King of England and Ireland (1603-25), poet and author, dies at 58