About March 27
March 27, 2024 is the 87th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 308 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 27
- 1329 –Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
- 1613 –The first English child born in Canada at Cuper’s Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
- 1782 –Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1794 –Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
- 1814 –War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
- 1836 –Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
- 1854 –Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
- 1871 –The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
- 1886 –Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
- 1938 –Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
- 1963 –Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom’s rail network.
- 1980 –Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
- 1980 –The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
- 1986 –A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
- 1993 –Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
- 1993 –Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People’s Republic of China.
- 1994 –One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
- 1994 –The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
- 1998 –The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
- 2000 –A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
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