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

• 1358 –
  Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
• 1709 –
  Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
• 1899 –
  A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
• 1941 –
  German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
• 1941 –
  Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
• 1950 –
  The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
• 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.
• 1981 –
  The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its “Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China”, laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
• 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?

• 1908 –
  João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)
• 1927 –
  Bob Keeshan, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1931 –
  Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 –
  Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress
• 1951 –
  Mary McAleese, President of Ireland 1997–present
• 1958 –
  Lisa Germano, American singer, songwriter and musician
• 1961 –
  Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress
• 1967 –
  Sylvie Fréchette, French-Canadian synchronized swimmer
• 1970 –
  Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
• 1984 –
  Khloé Kardashian, American reality television star

Who died on June 27?

• 1574 –
  Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
• 1636 –
  Date Masamune, founder of Sendai Japan (b. 1567)
• 1935 –
  Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
• 1958 –
  Ragna Wettergreen, Norwegian actress (b. 1864)
• 1962 –
  Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
• 1986 –
  George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
• 1996 –
  Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 2001 –
  Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
• 2008 –
  Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
• 2009 –
  Fayette Pinkney, African American singer (The Three Degrees) (b. 1948)