On This Day: March 27th

Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

Forty people are killed in a fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.

A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.

Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.

Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.

The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.

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

Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.

Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured.