About March 27
March 27, 2023 is the 86th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 320 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.
- 1782 –Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
- 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.
- 1890 –A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
- 1915 –Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
- 1918 –Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
- 1941 –World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
- 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.
- 1986 –A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
- 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.
- 1994 –The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
- 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.
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