Event:
An error on the Delta Air Lines website allows thousands of customers to buy tickets for super-low fares, some 90% below regular ticket prices; Delta takes responsibility for the error, and will honor ticket purchases as well as frequent flier miles earned on the reduced-fare flights
More Notable Events on December 27:
1993 Actress Teri Garr weds John O'Neil
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1945 International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded
1937 Mae West performs Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio