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

February 27: Facts & Myths About This Day

February 27 is the 58^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 307 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 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, 1,740,614,400 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 ‘pentacontaoctagon’ day.

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

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 355 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 4,451 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

February 27 Historical Events

• 1700 –
  The island of New Britain is discovered.
• 1776 –
  American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
• 1900 –
  Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
• 1933 –
  Reichstag fire: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
• 1939 –
  United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners’ rights and are therefore illegal.
• 1963 –
  The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
• 1971 –
  Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
• 1986 –
  The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
• 1989 –
  Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
• 2010 –
  An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.

Who were born on February 27?

• 1848 –
  Hubert Parry, English composer (d. 1918)
• 1878 –
  Alvan T. Fuller, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
• 1888 –
  Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
• 1904 –
  André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
• 1930 –
  Joanne Woodward, American actress
• 1933 –
  Raymond Berry, American football player
• 1965 –
  Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound editor and sound designer
• 1968 –
  Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player
• 1971 –
  Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist
• 1984 –
  Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer

Who died on February 27?

• 1699 –
  Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c.1625)
• 1887 –
  Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
• 1892 –
  Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
• 1986 –
  Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (b. 1929)
• 2003 –
  Fred Rogers, American children’s television actor (b. 1928)
• 2004 –
  Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
• 2005 –
  Jessica Lunsford, murder victim (b. 1995)
• 2006 –
  Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
• 2007 –
  Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
• 2008 –
  Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (b. 1929)