About August 27
August 27, 2024 is the 240th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 126 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 155 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 27
- 410 –The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
- 1593 –Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.
- 1776 –The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
- 1798 –Wolfe Tone’s United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.
- 1813 –French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
- 1828 –Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War.
- 1861 –Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- 1883 –The eruption of Krakatoa
- 1896 –Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
- 1916 –Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
- 1921 –The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
- 1922 –The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.
- 1928 –The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
- 1939 –First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft.
- 1943 –Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
- 1957 –The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
- 1979 –A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland (see Warrenpoint ambush).
- 1985 –The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
- 1991 –Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
- 2006 –Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
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