About March 27
March 27, 2020 is the 87th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 322 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.
- 1306 –Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
- 1309 –Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
- 1329 –Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
- 1613 –The first English child born in Canada at Cuper’s Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
- 1794 –Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
- 1794 –The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
- 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.
- 1886 –Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
- 1941 –World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
- 1943 –World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
- 1948 –The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
- 1964 –The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
- 1975 –Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
- 1976 –The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
- 1981 –The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
- 1993 –Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People’s Republic of China.
- 2000 –A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
- 2004 –HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
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