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, 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.

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.
• 1650 –
  The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
• 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).
• 1945 –
  World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
• 1967 –
  Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
• 1978 –
  Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
• 1992 –
  Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
• 2005 –
  The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.

Who were born on April 27?

• 1812 –
  Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)
• 1916 –
  Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
• 1931 –
  Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
• 1937 –
  Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1956 –
  Bryan Harvey, American musician (d. 2006)
• 1971 –
  Tess Daly, British television presenter
• 1975 –
  Chris Carpenter, American baseball player
• 1975 –
  Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 –
  Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower
• 1979 –
  Natasha Chokljat, Australian netballer

Who died on April 27?

• 1404 –
  Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
• 1613 –
  Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)
• 1656 –
  Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
• 1813 –
  Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (b. 1779)
• 1973 –
  Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (b. 1914)
• 1988 –
  Fred Bear, American bow-hunter (b. 1902)
• 1989 –
  Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
• 1992 –
  Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
• 1998 –
  Browning Ross, American long-distance running Olympian (b. 1924)
• 2009 –
  Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model (b. 1983)