About March 27

March 27, 2021 is the 86th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 311 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 27

  • 196 BC –
    Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
  • 1625 –
    Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
  • 1782 –
    Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • 1809 –
    Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
  • 1846 –
    Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
  • 1854 –
    Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
  • 1871 –
    The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
  • 1881 –
    Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
  • 1884 –
    A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
  • 1886 –
    Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
  • 1890 –
    A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
  • 1938 –
    Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan’s ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war to the Axis Powers.
  • 1948 –
    The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
  • 1963 –
    Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom’s rail network.
  • 1975 –
    Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
  • 1976 –
    The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
  • 1993 –
    Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People’s Republic of China.
  • 1994 –
    One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
  • 2009 –
    A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.

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