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

March 27: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 27 is the 86^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 14, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,050,560 minutes 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 ‘octacontahexagon’ day.

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

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 327 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 4,479 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 27 Historical Events

• 1836 –
  Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
• 1881 –
  Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
• 1943 –
  World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
• 1990 –
  The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
• 2009 –
  Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.

Who were born on March 27?

• 1847 –
  Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
• 1957 –
  Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997)
• 1972 –
  Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler
• 1974 –
  Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)
• 1995 –
  Taylor Atelian, American actress

Who died on March 27?

• 1875 –
  Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
• 1989 –
  Jack Starrett, American actor and film director (b. 1936)
• 1996 –
  Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (b. 1944)
• 1998 –
  David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
• 2003 –
  Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)