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.
- 1512 –The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World.
- 1655 –Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.
- 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.
- 1918 –The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
- 1922 –Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
- 1923 –Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito.
- 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.
- 1949 –Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies.
- 1968 –Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.
- 1978 –Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
- 1979 –The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- 1985 –Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome, Italy and Vienna, Austria airports.
- 2001 –The People’s Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
- 2002 –The company Clonaid announces that it has successfully cloned a human being, although it has never presented any verifiable evidence.
- 2002 –Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
- 2004 –Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
- 2007 –Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.
- 2008 –Israel launches 3-week operation on Gaza - Operation Cast Lead
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