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 179th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 14, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,657,440 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 ‘hectaheptacontaenneagon’ 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 216 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 4,206 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 27 Historical Events
- 1709 –Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
- 1759 –General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
- 1898 –The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
- 1923 –Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
- 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.
- 1976 –Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
- 1982 –Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
- 1988 –Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
- 1989 –The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted.
Who were born on June 27?
- 1462 –King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
- 1908 –João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)
- 1941 –James P. Hogan, British science fiction author (d. 2010)
- 1951 –Julia Duffy, American actress
- 1956 –Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
- 1968 –Pascale Bussières, French-Canadian actress
- 1975 –Daryle Ward, American baseball player
- 1977 –Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
- 1985 –James Hook, Welsh rugby player
- 1986 –LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
Who died on June 27?
- 1574 –Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
- 1720 –Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
- 1831 –Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
- 1944 –Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
- 1960 –Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
- 1986 –George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
- 1999 –Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
- 2002 –Robert L. J. Long, American admiral (b. 1920)
- 2005 –Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
- 2006 –Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as “The Railway Killer” (b. 1959)
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