About March 27

March 27, 2025 is the 86th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 327 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 27

  • 196 BC –
    Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
  • 1309 –
    Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
  • 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.
  • 1851 –
    First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
  • 1881 –
    Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
  • 1884 –
    A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
  • 1886 –
    Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
  • 1918 –
    Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
  • 1941 –
    World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
  • 1958 –
    Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
  • 1963 –
    Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom’s rail network.
  • 1975 –
    Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
  • 1976 –
    The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
  • 1980 –
    The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
  • 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.
  • 2000 –
    A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
  • 2002 –
    Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
  • 2009 –
    A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.

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