At A Glance

27 September 2023 at a glance

Day of the week
27 September 2023 was a Wednesday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “Paint the Town Red” by Doja Cat.
Top Film of 2023
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
Star sign
The star sign for 27 September is Libra.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 27 September 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
Birthstone
The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 27 September 2023 was Waxing Gibbous.

On this day: 27 September

  • 2003 The SMART-1 satellite is launched.
  • 2007 NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.
  • 2008 CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
  • 2019 Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide.
  • 2020 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan launches an offensive against the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Armenians.

Famous people born on 27 September

  • Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, blogger, and businesswoman (born 1972)
  • Jenna Ortega, American actress (born 2002)
  • Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer (born 1984)
  • Meat Loaf, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (1947–2022)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 2023 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 22 April – Sunak holds an emergency COBRA meeting to discuss the evacuation of British nationals caught up in the Sudan conflict.
  • 13 May – The final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Liverpool. The contest is won by Sweden's Loreen with the song "Tattoo", who becomes only the second person and the first woman to win the contest twice.
  • 20 June – British businessmen Hamish Harding and Shahzada Dawood, along with Dawood's son, Suleman, are confirmed as being aboard the missing submersible that disappeared during a voyage to see the wreck of the RMS Titanic two days earlier.

Life in 2023

Prime Minister

Rishi Sunak

Monarch

Charles III

Pint of Beer

£4.80

Loaf of Bread

£1.95

Average House

£291,228

Weekly Wage

£1,035.00

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