March 27

On This Day In History
	47: Cleopatra reinstated as queen of Egypt The legendary Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, aided by her Roman lover Julius Caesar, was reinstated as coruler of Egypt (with her brother Ptolemy XIV) this day in 47 BC following a civil war with her brother Ptolemy XIII.
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
Biography Of The Day
	Mstislav Rostropovich Born this day in 1927 in Azerbaijan was Mstislav Rostropovich, one of the best-known cellists of the 20th century and music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., from 1977 to 1994.
Mstislav Rostropovich, 1965
More Events On This Day In History
	1998 The drug Viagra from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in treating erectile dysfunction.
1977	1977 Two airplanes, a Pan Am 747 and a KLM 747, collided on a runway in the Canary Islands, killing 582.
	1958 Nikita Khrushchev replaced Nikolay Bulganin as premier of the Soviet Union.
	1886 German American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose rectilinear forms crafted in elegant simplicity epitomized the International style of architecture, was born.
1814	1814 At the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (Tohopeka, Alabama) in the Creek War, Andrew Jackson and his 3,000 troops defeated the Creek Indians, slaughtering more than 800 warriors and imprisoning 500 women and children.
	1625 Upon the death of James I, Charles I ascended the throne of Great Britain and Ireland.
1351	1351 As part of the struggle between Charles of Blois (supported by the king of France) and John of Montfort (backed by the king of England) over succession to the duchy of Brittany, their knights waged the Battle of the Thirty near Ploërmel.