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
- 1232 –The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
- 1593 –Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.
- 1689 –The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
- 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.
- 1810 –Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
- 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.
- 1859 –Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
- 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?”
- 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.
- 1962 –The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
- 1969 –Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.
- 1985 –The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
- 2003 –Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34646418 mi distant.
- 2003 –The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
- 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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