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

June 27: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 27 is the 178^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

When this day started, 29,183,040 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 ‘hectaheptacontaoctagon’ day.

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

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 235 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 4,571 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 27 Historical Events

• 1806 –
  British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
• 1898 –
  The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• 1950 –
  The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
• 1971 –
  After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the “Church of Rock and Roll”.
• 1974 –
  U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
• 1976 –
  Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
• 1980 –
  Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
• 1988 –
  Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
• 1991 –
  Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
• 2007 –
  The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

Who were born on June 27?

• 1846 –
  Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish independence fighter (d. 1891)
• 1886 –
  Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1888 –
  Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946)
• 1899 –
  Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
• 1974 –
  Christian Kane, American actor and singer
• 1977 –
  Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
• 1978 –
  Anna Kumble, British singer, also known as Lolly
• 1981 –
  Andrew Embley, Australian rules footballer
• 1984 –
  D.J. King, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 –
  Bruna Tenório, Brazilian model

Who died on June 27?

• 1574 –
  Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
• 1672 –
  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)
• 1944 –
  Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
• 1949 –
  Frank Smythe, British mountaineer (b. 1900)
• 1952 –
  Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
• 1954 –
  Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1991 –
  Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (b. 1953)
• 2005 –
  Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector
• 2005 –
  Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
• 2008 –
  Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)