What are the important events that happened on December 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 27: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 27 is the 361st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 4 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 14, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 490,776 hours 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 ‘trihectahexacontahenagon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 52 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 4,754 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 27 Historical Events
- 537 –The Hagia Sophia is completed.
- 1831 –Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.
- 1845 –Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
- 1927 –Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
- 1942 –The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded.
- 1979 –The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- 2001 –The People’s Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
- 2002 –The company Clonaid announces that it has successfully cloned a human being, although it has never presented any verifiable evidence.
- 2002 –Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
- 2004 –Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
Who were born on December 27?
- 1823 –Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1917)
- 1832 –Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art (d. 1897)
- 1883 –Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1979)
- 1919 –Charles Sweeney, American general (d. 2004)
- 1920 –Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (d. 2005)
- 1943 –Roy White, American baseball player
- 1951 –Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico
- 1955 –Brad Murphey, Australian racing driver
- 1958 –Steve Jones, American golfer
- 1970 –Chyna, American professional wrestler
Who died on December 27?
- 1737 –William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663)
- 1834 –Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775)
- 1836 –Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (b. 1793)
- 1952 –Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1878)
- 1982 –John Leonard “Jack” Swigert, Jr., American astronaut (b. 1931)
- 1993 –André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
- 1994 –Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (b. 1909)
- 1994 –J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (b. 1902)
- 2003 –Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934)
- 2011 –Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1928)
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