At A Glance

27 September 2022 at a glance

Day of the week
27 September 2022 was a Tuesday.
Irish Chart Song in 2022
The Irish chart song for 2022 was “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals.
Top Film of 2022
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2022 was Avatar: The Way of Water.
Star sign
The star sign for 27 September is Libra.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 27 September 2022 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
Birthstone
The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 27 September 2022 was Waxing Crescent.

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 2022 in Ireland

A selection from Wikipedia's '2022 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

  • 4 February – RTÉ selected Brooke Scullion to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy in May with the song "That's Rich".
  • 24 February – The taoiseach condemned Russia's attack on Ukraine as "an outrageous and moral breach of the most fundamental principles of international law."
  • 1 April – Atlantic Technological University, comprising the three institutes of technology in the northern and western regions – Letterkenny IT, Galway-Mayo IT and Sligo IT – formally came into operation, under its president Dr. Orla Flynn.

Life in Ireland in 2022

Taoiseach

Micheál Martin

Petrol (per litre)

€1.92/L

Loaf of Bread

€1.85

Average House

€370,000

Weekly Wage

€620

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