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, 486,384 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 ‘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.
• 1743 –
  War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
• 1895 –
  The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• 1898 –
  The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• 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.
• 1946 –
  In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
• 1967 –
  The world’s first ATM is installed in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom.
• 1988 –
  Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
• 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?

• 1869 –
  Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
• 1935 –
  Laurent Terzieff, French actor
• 1942 –
  Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer
• 1951 –
  Julia Duffy, American actress
• 1958 –
  Brian Helicopter, British musician, bass guitarist (The Shapes, HellsBelles, Rogue Male)
• 1959 –
  Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer
• 1962 –
  Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
• 1977 –
  Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
• 1979 –
  John Warne, American musician (Relient K; Ace Troubleshooter)
• 1980 –
  Craig Terrill, American football player

Who died on June 27?

• 1162 –
  Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
• 1636 –
  Date Masamune, founder of Sendai Japan (b. 1567)
• 1907 –
  Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
• 1944 –
  Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
• 1957 –
  Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924)
• 1958 –
  Ragna Wettergreen, Norwegian actress (b. 1864)
• 1996 –
  Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 2000 –
  Molly Bish, American Abductee (b. 1983)
• 2004 –
  Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
• 2005 –
  Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)