March 27, 2017 Open Thread; International Whiskey Day

March 27 is the 86th day of the year. There are 279 days left.

Today's number is 27

27 is a perfect cube, 3^3. 27 is the atomic number of cobalt. 27 is the weight of the only stable isotope of aluminum. The A-27 was a WWII American attack aircraft 27 is the number of bones in the human hand.[6] 27 is the average crowd funded contribution to Bernie Sanders. I-27 is an Interstate Highway, entirely within Texas, from Lubbock to Amarillo. Interstate, hello? 27 is self locating in pi. (Counting up from zero, the 27th & 28th digits after the decimal are 27.)

Title 27 of the US Code is INTOXICATING LIQUORS.

27 BCE was the Year of the Second Consulship of Octavian and Agrippa Octavian returned full power to the Senate which, in exchange, granted him the titles of Princeps and Augustus. As Augustus, he bacame the first Roman Emperor. Emperor Ai of Han, was born Marcus Terentius Varro died.

27 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Piso and Frugi Apricots were transported from Asia to Rome Petronius was born

On this day in: 1794 -- The US established a permanent navy 1836 -- The Mexican army massacred 342 POWs at Goliad, Texas. 1886 -- Geronimo surrendered 1915 -- Typhoid Mary was quarantined 1964 -- The Good Friday earthquake hit Alaska (9.2 richter) 1975 -- The started building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System 1980 -- A panic in commodity and futures exchanges when the Hunts tried to corner the market in Ag 1981 -- Solidarity staged a "warning strike" 1990 -- The US Started broadcasting TV Marti propaganda 1998 -- The FDA approved Viagra !!!!!!!

Born this day in:

1724 -- Jane Colden, botanist 1809 -- Georges-Eugene Haussmann, engineer commissioned to rennovate Paris 1820 -- Edward Augustus Inglefield, explorer 1844 -- Adolphus Greely, explorer 1845 -- Wilhelm Roentgen, physicist, discovered X-rays, won first Physics Nobel Prize 1847 -- Otto Wallach, chemist, terpene maven 1851 -- Ruperto Chapi, composer 1851 -- Vincent d'Indy, composer 1868 -- Patty Hill, birthday girl 1886 -- Sergey Kirov, bolshie 1886 -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect 1901 -- Carl Barks, the duck man 1905 -- Leroy Carr, singer, pianist, & songwriter 1906 -- Pee Wee Russell, composer; clarinet & sax player 1909 -- Ben Webster, saxophonist 1915 -- Robert Lockwood, Jr., guitarist 1921 -- Phil Chess, record producer 1924 -- Sarah Vaughan, singer 1932 -- Junior Parker, singer and harmonica player 1950 -- Tony Banks, keyboard player and songwriter for Genesis 1959 -- Andrew Farriss, rock musician and multi-instrumentalist 1970 -- Mariah Carey, singer & songwriter 1975 -- Fergie, singer, dnacer, songwriter, & pea

Died this day in:

1923 -- James Dewar, physicist & chemist 1925 -- Carl Neumann, mathematician 1968 -- Yuri Gagarin, pilot & astronaut 1977 -- Shirley Graham Du Bois, activist, author, composer & playwright

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