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What are the important events that happened on April 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 27: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 27 is the 117th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 14, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,095,200 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 ‘hectadecaheptagon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 296 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 4,510 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 27 Historical Events
- 1521 –Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
- 1565 –Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
- 1810 –Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
- 1941 –World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as “National Democrats”) and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
- 2005 –The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
Who were born on April 27?
- 1939 –Jerry Mercer, Canadian musician
- 1941 –Jennings Michael Burch, American author
- 1945 –August Wilson, American dramatist (d. 2005)
- 1987 –Taylor Chorney, American ice hockey player
- 1991 –Jennifer Braun, German singer
Who died on April 27?
- 1936 –Karl Pearson, English statistician (b. 1857)
- 1937 –Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
- 1992 –Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
- 1999 –Al Hirt, American trumpeter (b. 1922)
- 1999 –Rolf Landauer, American physicist and electrical engineer (b. 1927)
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