History for December 27

History for December 27 - On-This-Day.com
Johannes Kepler 1571, George Cayley 1773, Louis Pasteur 1822


Sydney Greenstreet 1879, Marlene Dietrich 1901, Cokie Roberts 1943 


1831 - Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped him form the basis of his theories on evolution.


1845 - Dr. Crawford Williamson Long used anesthesia for childbirth for the first time. The event was the delivery of his own child in Jefferson, GA.


1900 - Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a saloon at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, KS. She broke each and every one of the liquor bottles that could be seen.


1947 - The children's television program "Howdy Doody," hosted by Bob Smith, made its debut on NBC.


1949 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted sovereignty to Indonesia after more than 300 years of Dutch rule.


1965 - The BP oil rig Sea Gem capsized in the North Sea, with the loss of 13 lives.


1978 - Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.


2002 - North Korea ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the country and said that it would restart a laboratory capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons.