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Calendar day; March 27, 2015

March 27, 2015

Friday, the 27th of March, 2015 is the 86th day in 2015 and in the 13th calendar week.

General Events:

World Theatre Day
March 27, 2015 in the World

World Theatre Day was initiated in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI). It is celebrated annually on the 27th March by ITI Centres and the international theatre community. Various national and international theatre events are organized to mark this occasion. One of the most important of these is the circulation of the World Theatre Day International Message through which at the invitation of ITI, a figure of world stature shares his or her reflections on the theme of Theatre and a Culture of Peace.

It was first in Helsinki, and then in Vienna at the 9th World Congress of the ITI in June 1961 that President Arvi Kivimaa proposed on behalf of the Finnish Centre of the International Theatre Institute that a World Theatre Day be instituted. The proposal, backed by the Scandinavian centres, was carried with acclamation.

Ever since, each year on the 27th March (date of the opening of the 1962 “Theatre of Nations” season in Paris), World Theatre Day has been celebrated in many and varied ways by ITI National Centres of which there are now almost 100 throughout the world.

http://www.iti-worldwide.org/worldtheatreday.php

Where is the event?
Worldwide

Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
March 27, 2015 in the World

What country music song always puts a smile on your face? Perhaps it’s classics such as “I Still Miss You Baby, But My Aim’s Gettin’ Better” or “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly” or Johnny Cash’s “Every Time I Itch I Wind Up Scratching You”. Today is the day to pay tribute to these unique songs!

Country music evolved from Appalachian folk music in the 1920s and became a nationwide sensation in the 1940s. The Grand Ole Opry radio station in Nashville, Tennessee began broadcasting weekly concerts that showcased all the different genres of country music—hillbilly, honky-tonk, bluegrass, western, rockabilly, gospel, and more.

In honor of today’s Reason to Celebrate, put on your cowboy hat, get out your banjo, and belt out your favorite quirky country music song!

Where is the event?
Worldwide

National Spanish Paella Day
March 27, 2015 in the USA

March 27th is the annual celebration of National Spanish Paella Day. A rice dish from Spain, paella has become very popular and is known around the world. It originated in its modern form in the mid-19th century in Valencia, on the east coast of Spain.

At lunch time, workers in the fields would make the rice dish in a flat pan over a fire. They mixed in whatever they could find – such as rabbits, snails and vegetables. Later, for special occasions, chicken was added. Paella has spread to every region of Spain, as well as worldwide, using almost any type of ingredient that goes well with rice.

There are many versions of recipes of paella. A key ingredient is saffron and olive oil. Saffron is an essential spice that also turns the rice a nice golden color.

Create a wonderful dish of paella to celebrate National Spanish Paella Day.

Where is the event?
Nationwide USA

Historical Events on 27th March:

196 BC – Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt

1513 – Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon and his expedition 1st sight Florida

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

1713 – Spain loses Menorca and Gibraltar to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht

1790 – The modern shoestring (string and shoe holes) invented in England

1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

1848 – John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster

1866 – Andrew Rankin patents the urinal

1879 – Longest championship fight (136 rounds)

1914 – 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)

1915 – Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid

1933 – Japan leaves League of Nations

1944 – 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania

1956 – French commandos land in Algeria

1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party

1964 – UN troops arrive in Cyprus

1980 – Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years

1984 – Beginning of “tanker war”: over the next 9 months, 44 ships, including Iranian, Iraqi, Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti tankers, are attacked by Iraqi or Iranian warplanes or damaged by mines

2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe