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27 September 2018 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 27 September 2018 was a Thursday.
- Irish Chart Song in 2018
- The Irish chart song for 2018 was “Girls Like You” by Maroon 5 ft. Cardi B.
- Top Film of 2018
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2018 was Avengers: Infinity War.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 27 September is Libra.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 27 September 2018 fell in the Year of the Dog.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 27 September 2018 was Waning 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 2018 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '2018 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 28 February – Met Éireann issued a red weather warning, its most severe alert, for all of Munster and Leinster as the Beast from the East weather event arrived.
- 26 April – CervicalCheck cancer scandal: The Health Service Executive (HSE) confirmed that 206 women developed cervical cancer after having a misdiagnosed smear in the free national screening programme.
- 8 May – Ryan O'Shaughnessy takes Ireland to its first Eurovision final since 2013, with the song "Together".
Life in Ireland in 2018
Taoiseach
Leo Varadkar
Petrol (per litre)
€1.48/L
Loaf of Bread
€1.60
Average House
€295,000
Weekly Wage
€520
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