What happened this day in history June 27

What are the important events that happened on June 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 27: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 27 is the 179th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 14, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,719,446,400 seconds 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 ‘hectaheptacontaenneagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 216 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 4,206 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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June 27 Historical Events

  • 1497
    Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
  • 1905
    Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
  • 1923
    Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
  • 1941
    Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
  • 1950
    The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
  • 1954
    The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
  • 1967
    The world’s first ATM is installed in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom.
  • 1976
    Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
  • 1980
    Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
  • 1989
    The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted.

Who were born on June 27?

  • 1913
    Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (d. 1993)
  • 1931
    Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist
  • 1941
    James P. Hogan, British science fiction author (d. 2010)
  • 1951
    Julia Duffy, American actress
  • 1962
    Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
  • 1963
    Paul Roos, Australian rules footballer
  • 1966
    J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
  • 1971
    Tony McCarroll, British drummer
  • 1984
    Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer
  • 1984
    Rocío Guirao Díaz, Argentinian model

Who died on June 27?

  • 1773
    Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. c. 1706)
  • 1907
    Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
  • 1958
    Ragna Wettergreen, Norwegian actress (b. 1864)
  • 1991
    Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • 1996
    Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
  • 2005
    Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
  • 2005
    John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
  • 2005
    Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
  • 2007
    Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
  • 2008
    Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)

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