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

January 27: Facts & Myths About This Day

January 27 is the 27^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 338 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 14, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,965,600 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 ‘icosiheptagon’ day.

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

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 2 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 4,420 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 27 Historical Events

• 1606 –
  Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
• 1785 –
  The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
• 1939 –
  First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
• 1941 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
• 1967 –
  Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
• 1967 –
  The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
• 1983 –
  The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world’s longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
• 1984 –
  Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
• 2003 –
  The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
• 2010 –
  The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.

Who were born on January 27?

• 1805 –
  Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
• 1885 –
  Eduard Künneke, German composer (d. 1953)
• 1885 –
  Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
• 1895 –
  Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
• 1937 –
  John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
• 1949 –
  Ethan Mordden, American author
• 1959 –
  Keith Olbermann, American news anchor & political commentator
• 1967 –
  Bobby Deol, Indian actor
• 1969 –
  Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer
• 1989 –
  Daisy Lowe, British model

Who died on January 27?

• 1540 –
  Saint Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (b. 1474)
• 1901 –
  Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
• 1921 –
  Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (b. 1891)
• 1967 –
  Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
• 1967 –
  Virgil “Gus” Grissom – Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1926)
• 1972 –
  Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1973 –
  William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929)
• 1989 –
  Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
• 1997 –
  Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (b. 1900)
• 2001 –
  Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (b. 1941)