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.
- 1186 –Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
- 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.
- 1909 –The Young Left is founded in Norway.
- 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.
- 1961 –Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
- 1967 –Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
- 1974 –The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th Century
- 1980 –Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian caper.
- 1983 –The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world’s longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
- 1984 –Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
- 1990 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 1996 –Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- 2006 –Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
- 2010 –The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
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