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, 482,760 hours 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

• 1825 –
  The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
• 1870 –
  The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
• 1971 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
• 1973 –
  The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty.
• 1980 –
  Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian caper.
• 1984 –
  Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
• 1993 –
  American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport’s highest rank of yokozuna.
• 1996 –
  Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• 1996 –
  In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
• 2003 –
  The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.

Who were born on January 27?

• 1826 –
  Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
• 1903 –
  John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
• 1919 –
  Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American musician (d. 1972)
• 1940 –
  James Cromwell, American actor
• 1946 –
  Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
• 1949 –
  Ethan Mordden, American author
• 1964 –
  Jack Haley, American basketball player
• 1968 –
  Mike Patton, American singer-songwriter (Faith No More)
• 1972 –
  Wynne Evans, Welsh operatic tenor
• 1987 –
  Katy Rose, American pop singer

Who died on January 27?

• 98 –
  Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)
• 1689 –
  Robert Aske, merchant whose charitable foundation operates Haberdashers‘ Aske’s Boys School and Haberdashers’Aske’s School for Girls (b. 1619)
• 1921 –
  Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (b. 1891)
• 1973 –
  William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929)
• 2000 –
  Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b. 1930)
• 2001 –
  Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (b. 1941)
• 2006 –
  Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
• 2008 –
  Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader (b. 1910)
• 2009 –
  John Updike, American novelist (b. 1932)
• 2010 –
  Howard Zinn, American historian and activist (b. 1922)