About December 27
December 27, 2024 is the 362nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 4 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 33 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 27
- 537 –The Hagia Sophia is completed.
- 1657 –The Flushing Remonstrance is signed.
- 1703 –Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.
- 1814 –War of 1812: The American schooner USS Carolina is destroyed. It was the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson’s make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson’s victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
- 1845 –Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
- 1922 –Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
- 1923 –Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito.
- 1932 –Radio City Music Hall opened in New York, New York.
- 1939 –Erzincan, Turkey is hit by an earthquake, killing 30,000.
- 1939 –Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of Kelja.
- 1942 –The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded.
- 1945 –The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.
- 1968 –Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.
- 1978 –Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
- 1978 –The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the South Pole recorded temperatures of 7.5 °F (−13.6 °C), making it the highest temperature to ever be recorded in the South Pole.
- 1979 –The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- 1985 –Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome, Italy and Vienna, Austria airports.
- 1996 –Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
- 2004 –Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
- 2007 –Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.
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