About February 27
February 27, 2024 is the 58th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 308 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 337 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 27
- 425 –The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
- 1560 –The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
- 1626 –Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
- 1801 –Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
- 1812 –Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
- 1844 –The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
- 1900 –The British Labour Party is founded.
- 1902 –Second Boer War: Harry ‘Breaker’Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
- 1921 –The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
- 1922 –A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
- 1939 –United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners’ rights and are therefore illegal.
- 1940 –Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
- 1951 –The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1964 –The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 1976 –The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- 1986 –The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- 2002 –Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
- 2004 –A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines’ worst terrorist attack kills 116.
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