What day of the week was March 27, 1977?

The day of the week March 27th, 1977 fell on was a Sunday. There were 14 days until Easter Sunday.

A. P. Hamann the American lawyer and politician (b. 1909) died on this day in 1977. As did Diana Hyland the American actress (b. 1936) , Eve Meyer the American model, actress, and producer (b. 1928) , Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten the Dutch captain and pilot (b. 1927) .

Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands the killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.