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 117^th 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, 1,745,712,000 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 ‘hectadecaheptagon’ day.

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.

April 27 Historical Events

• 395 –
  Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
• 1565 –
  Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
• 1667 –
  The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
• 1773 –
  The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
• 1805 –
  First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The “shores of Tripoli” part of the Marines’ hymn).
• 1914 –
  Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1941 –
  World War II: German troops enter Athens.
• 1945 –
  World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
• 1978 –
  Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
• 1987 –
  The U.S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

Who were born on April 27?

• 1862 –
  Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish-born American actor (d. 1930)
• 1896 –
  Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (d. 1963)
• 1906 –
  Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (d. 1966)
• 1942 –
  Jim Keltner, American drummer
• 1952 –
  Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver
• 1956 –
  Bryan Harvey, American musician (d. 2006)
• 1957 –
  Willie Upshaw, American baseball player
• 1974 –
  Frank Catalanotto, American baseball player
• 1981 –
  Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
• 1982 –
  Alexander Widiker, German rugby player

Who died on April 27?

• 630 –
  King Ardashir III of Persia
• 1694 –
  John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
• 1782 –
  William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
• 1813 –
  Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (b. 1779)
• 1873 –
  William Charles Macready, English actor (b. 1793)
• 1988 –
  David Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)
• 1992 –
  Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (b. 1927)
• 1992 –
  Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
• 1999 –
  Rolf Landauer, American physicist and electrical engineer (b. 1927)
• 2002 –
  Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921)