About March 27
March 27, 2024 is the 87th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 308 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 27
- 1306 –Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
- 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.
- 1851 –First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
- 1871 –The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
- 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.
- 1910 –A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
- 1918 –Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
- 1938 –Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
- 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.
- 1986 –A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
- 1993 –Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
- 1993 –Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People’s Republic of China.
- 1998 –The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
- 2002 –Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
- 2004 –HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
- 2009 –A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
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