About December 27
December 27, 2021 is the 361st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 4 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 36 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 27
- 537 –The Hagia Sophia is completed.
- 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.
- 1831 –Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.
- 1836 –The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
- 1845 –Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
- 1911 –“Jana Gana Mana,” the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
- 1918 –The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
- 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.
- 1966 –The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
- 1979 –The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- 1996 –Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
- 1997 –Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
- 2002 –The company Clonaid announces that it has successfully cloned a human being, although it has never presented any verifiable evidence.
- 2007 –Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.
- 2008 –Israel launches 3-week operation on Gaza - Operation Cast Lead
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