About February 27
February 27, 2021 is the 58th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 307 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 339 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 27
- 380 –Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
- 1617 –Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
- 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.
- 1844 –The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
- 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.
- 1870 –The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
- 1902 –Second Boer War: Harry ‘Breaker’Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
- 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
- 1951 –The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1964 –The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 1971 –Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
- 1986 –The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- 1989 –Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
- 1991 –Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that “Kuwait is liberated”.
- 2002 –Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
- 2007 –The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.
- 2010 –An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
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