About January 27
January 27, 2024 is the 27th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 14 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 27
- 98 –Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
- 661 –The Rashidun Caliphate ends with death of Ali.
- 1186 –Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
- 1343 –Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
- 1593 –The Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
- 1606 –Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
- 1825 –The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
- 1870 –The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
- 1909 –The Young Left is founded in Norway.
- 1927 –Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
- 1944 –World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
- 1945 –World War II: The Red Army liberates the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
- 1951 –Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
- 1952 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 1961 –Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
- 1993 –American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport’s highest rank of yokozuna.
- 1996 –Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- 2002 –An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
- 2006 –Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
- 2010 –The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
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