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.
- 1306 –Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
- 1329 –Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
- 1613 –The first English child born in Canada at Cuper’s Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
- 1625 –Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
- 1782 –Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1794 –Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
- 1881 –Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2000 –A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
- 2009 –A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
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