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

  • 1309 –
    Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
  • 1794 –
    The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
  • 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.
  • 1871 –
    The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
  • 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.
  • 1918 –
    Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
  • 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.
  • 1948 –
    The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
  • 1958 –
    Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
  • 1975 –
    Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
  • 1976 –
    The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
  • 1981 –
    The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
  • 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.
  • 2004 –
    HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
  • 2009 –
    A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.

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