Portal:Current events/2002 March 27
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March 27, 2002 (Wednesday)
- Recent celebrity deaths: Milton Berle, Dudley Moore, and Billy Wilder die.
- President Bush signs the campaign finance reform bill.
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict: At the start of Passover, a suicide bomber kills 30 and injures about 140 in a hotel in Netanya. The event triggers Operation Defensive Shield.