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
- 1329 –Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
- 1851 –First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
- 1871 –The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
- 1890 –A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
- 1910 –A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
- 1915 –Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan’s ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war to the Axis Powers.
- 1948 –The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
- 1977 –Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
- 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.
- 2009 –A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
- 2009 –Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
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