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.
- 1232 –The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
- 1793 –French counter-revolution: the port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1927 –Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, “Does the word ‘Persons’in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?”
- 1971 –An attempted coup fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
- 1975 –The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
- 1982 –Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
- 1985 –The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
- 1991 –Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
- 1993 –The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo’s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
- 2000 –540 m-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
- 2009 –The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
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