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
- 196 BC –Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
- 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.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
- 1814 –War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
- 1851 –First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
- 1886 –Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
- 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.
- 1975 –Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
- 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.
- 2000 –A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
- 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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