About March 27
March 27, 2022 is the 86th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 301 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 27
- 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.
- 1625 –Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
- 1794 –The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
- 1854 –Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
- 1890 –A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
- 1938 –Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
- 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.
- 1963 –Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom’s rail network.
- 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.
- 1980 –Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
- 1980 –The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
- 1993 –Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
- 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.
- 2000 –A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
- 2009 –Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
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