What are the important events that happened on March 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 27: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 27 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 14, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,416 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontaheptagon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,114 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 27 Historical Events
- 1794 –The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
- 1836 –Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
- 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.
- 1948 –The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
- 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.
- 1990 –The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
- 1993 –Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People’s Republic of China.
- 2004 –HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
Who were born on March 27?
- 1416 –Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d. 1480)
- 1809 –Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)
- 1817 –Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
- 1897 –Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (d. 1958)
- 1952 –Jan Albers, Dutch field hockey player
- 1953 –Herman Ponsteen, Dutch track cyclist
- 1962 –Jann Arden, Canadian musician
- 1981 –Carey Davis, American pro football player
- 1986 –Manuel Neuer, German professional footballer
- 1992 –Pedro Obiang, Spanish-born Equatoguinean footballer
Who died on March 27?
- 1878 –Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811)
- 1965 –Dirk Lotsy, Dutch footballer (b. 1882)
- 1981 –Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and news presenter (b. 1916)
- 1988 –Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
- 1998 –Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
- 2000 –Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942)
- 2002 –Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
- 2005 –Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
- 2006 –Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
- 2008 –George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
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