About March 27
March 27, 2025 is the 86th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 327 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 27
- 1329 –Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
- 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.
- 1854 –Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
- 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.
- 1890 –A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
- 1918 –Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
- 1938 –Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
- 1945 –World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan’s ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war to the Axis Powers.
- 1958 –Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2000 –A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
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