About January 27

January 27, 2024 is the 27th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 14 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On January 27

  • 661 –
    The Rashidun Caliphate ends with death of Ali.
  • 1142 –
    Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
  • 1343 –
    Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
  • 1593 –
    The Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
  • 1695 –
    Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
  • 1825 –
    The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
  • 1868 –
    Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
  • 1870 –
    The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
  • 1888 –
    The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
  • 1939 –
    First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhemshafen, Germany. The first American bombing attack on Germany.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
  • 1951 –
    Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
  • 1967 –
    The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
  • 1973 –
    The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty.
  • 1974 –
    The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th Century
  • 1990 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
  • 2002 –
    An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
  • 2003 –
    The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
  • 2010 –
    The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.

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