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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