December 27th, 1892

Born on December 27th, 1892

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on December 27th?

December 27th, 2002

The human-cloning company Clonaid claimed to have performed the first reproductive cloning of a human, but provided no evidence for the claim.

December 27th, 1997

Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright was assassinated in HM Prison Maze by members of the Irish National Liberation Army.

December 27th, 1985

The body of murdered American primatologist Dian Fossey was discovered inside her cabin in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

December 27th, 1979

Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet troops stormed Tajbeg Palace outside Kabul and killed Afghan president Hafizullah Amin and his 100–150 elite guards.

December 27th, 1966

A group of three men made the first descent into the Cave of Swallows (pictured), the largest known cave shaft in the world, in Aquismón, Mexico.

December 27th, 1932

New York City's Radio City Music Hall (pictured) opened with the world's largest auditorium at the time.

December 27th, 1929

Joseph Stalin announced the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class", beginning a period of political repression against prosperous peasants.

December 27th, 1922

The Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned Hōshō (pictured), the world's first purpose-built aircraft carrier.

December 27th, 1918

A public speech by the Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań sparked the Greater Poland uprising against Germany.

December 27th, 1904

The stage play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, by Scottish author J. M. Barrie, premiered in London.

December 27th, 1845

John L. O'Sullivan, in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argued that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny", popularizing the term's use.

December 27th, 1831

HMS Beagle departed Plymouth, England, on a voyage to South America that established Charles Darwin (pictured) as a naturalist.

December 27th, 1657

Citizens of New Netherland presented the Flushing Remonstrance to Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of the colonial province, requesting an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.

December 27th, 1521

A period of unrest in Wittenberg following the arrival of three men of the Radical Reformation, known as the Zwickau prophets, was quelled after Martin Luther's release from custody.

December 27th, 0537

The reconstructed Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was inaugurated; built as a church, it later became a mosque and a museum.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 27th

Same year
Born in 1892

63

Otto Harder

German footballer and SS officer (1892-1956)

*November 25th, 1892, Brunswick †March 14th, 1956, Hamburg

81

J. R. R. Tolkien

English writer and philologist (1892–1973)

*January 3rd, 1892, Bloemfontein †September 2nd, 1973, Bournemouth

25

Manfred von Richthofen

German fighter pilot (1892-1918)

*May 2nd, 1892, Wrocław †April 21st, 1918, Vaux-sur-Somme

82

Francisco Franco

Spanish general and dictator (1892-1975)

*December 4th, 1892, Ferrol †November 20th, 1975, Madrid

87

Josip Broz

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892−1980)

*May 7th, 1892, Kumrovec †May 4th, 1980, Ljubljana

70

Thomas Mitchell

American actor, playwright and screenwriter (1892-1962)

*July 11th, 1892, Elizabeth †December 17th, 1962, Beverly Hills

46

Alice Brady

American actress (1892–1939)

*November 2nd, 1892, New York City †October 28th, 1939, New York City

46

Alfonsina Storni

Argentine writer

*May 29th, 1892, Capriasca †October 25th, 1938, Mar del Plata

69

Arthur Holly Compton

American physicist (1892–1962)

*September 10th, 1892, Wooster †March 15th, 1962, Berkeley

83

Haile Selassie I

Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974

*July 23rd, 1892, Ejersa Goro †August 27th, 1975, Addis Ababa

82

Ivo Andrić

Yugoslav novelist (1892-1975)

*October 9th, 1892, Dolac †March 13th, 1975, Belgrade

45

Osgood Perkins

American actor (1892-1937)

*May 16th, 1892, West Newton †September 21st, 1937, Washington, D.C.

83

George Paget Thomson

English physicist

*May 3rd, 1892, Cambridge †September 10th, 1975, Cambridge

86

Janet Flanner

American journalist

*March 13th, 1892, Indianapolis †November 7th, 1978, New York City

87

Mary Pickford

Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)

*April 8th, 1892, Toronto †May 29th, 1979, Santa Monica

76

Jimmy Wilde

Welsh boxer

*May 15th, 1892, Quakers Yard †March 10th, 1969, Cardiff

61

Ugo Betti

Italian writer and judge (1892–1953)

*February 4th, 1892, Camerino †June 9th, 1953, Rome

88

Marius Casadesus

French composer

*October 24th, 1892, 18th arrondissement of Paris †October 13th, 1981, Suresnes

73

Maurice Monney-Bouton

French rower

*February 24th, 1892, Paris †June 15th, 1965, Clichy

88

Felix Pollaczek

Austrian-French engineer and mathematician

*December 1st, 1892, Vienna †April 29th, 1981, Boulogne-Billancourt

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Public holidays on December 27th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on December 27th.

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Leap year

Yes: 1892 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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