About February 27
February 27, 2025 is the 58th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 307 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 355 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 27
- 1560 –The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
- 1626 –Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
- 1812 –Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
- 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.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
- 1900 –The British Labour Party is founded.
- 1902 –Second Boer War: Harry ‘Breaker’Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
- 1921 –The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1976 –The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- 1991 –Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that “Kuwait is liberated”.
- 2002 –Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair’s handling of the evacuation.
- 2004 –A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines’ worst terrorist attack kills 116.
- 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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