About August 27
August 27, 2024 is the 240th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 126 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 155 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 27
- 410 –The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
- 1172 –Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.
- 1689 –The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
- 1813 –French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
- 1859 –Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
- 1861 –Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- 1883 –The eruption of Krakatoa
- 1896 –Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
- 1916 –Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
- 1928 –The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
- 1969 –Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.
- 1979 –A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland (see Warrenpoint ambush).
- 1982 –Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
- 1985 –The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
- 1991 –Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
- 1991 –The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1993 –The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo’s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
- 2003 –Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34646418 mi distant.
- 2006 –Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
- 2009 –The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
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