What are the important events that happened on September 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 27: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 27 is the 270th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 95 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 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, 1,758,931,200 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 ‘dihectaheptacontagon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 143 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 4,663 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 27 Historical Events
- 489 –Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
- 1422 –after the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- 1529 –The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
- 1590 –Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
- 1822 –Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
- 1854 –The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1916 –Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
- 1956 –USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
- 1959 –Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
- 1997 –Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
Who were born on September 27?
- 1818 –Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
- 1906 –Jim Thompson, American author (d. 1977)
- 1932 –Yash Chopra, Indian director
- 1934 –Wilford Brimley, American actor
- 1936 –Don Cornelius, American television host
- 1936 –Gordon Honeycombe, British playwright
- 1951 –David Starobin, American classical guitarist, record producer, and film director
- 1961 –Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
- 1964 –Stephan Jenkins, American singer (Third Eye Blind)
- 1968 –Mari Kiviniemi, Finnish politician
Who died on September 27?
- 1737 –John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)
- 1891 –Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
- 1915 –Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)
- 1940 –Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)
- 1944 –Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (b. 1890)
- 1975 –Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
- 1979 –Dame Gracie Fields, British comedian (b. 1898)
- 1993 –Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
- 2005 –Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian (b. 1929)
- 2010 –Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon (b. 1955)
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