About February 27
February 27, 2024 is the 58th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 308 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 337 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 27
- 425 –The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
- 1560 –The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
- 1594 –Henry IV is crowned King of France.
- 1700 –The island of New Britain is discovered.
- 1812 –Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
- 1812 –Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
- 1860 –Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
- 1861 –Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
- 1900 –The British Labour Party is founded.
- 1933 –Reichstag fire: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
- 1942 –World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies
- 1943 –The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
- 1951 –The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1961 –The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
- 1963 –The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
- 1964 –The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 1973 –The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
- 1986 –The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- 1991 –Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that “Kuwait is liberated”.
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