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, 477,624 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 ‘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
1358 –
Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
1844 –
Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
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.
1905 –
Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
1923 –
Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1971 –
After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the “Church of Rock and Roll”.
1973 –
The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
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.
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?
1817 –
Louise von François, German writer (d. 1893)
1850 –
Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (d. 1904)
1869 –
Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961)
1928 –
Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1931 –
Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist
1938 –
Kathryn Beaumont, British voice actress
1956 –
Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
1958 –
Lisa Germano, American singer, songwriter and musician
1963 –
Jay Karnes, American actor
1976 –
Leigh Nash, American musician (Sixpence None the Richer)
Who died on June 27?
1458 –
King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
1636 –
Date Masamune, founder of Sendai Japan (b. 1567)
1794 –
Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French nobleman (b. 1715)
1896 –
John Berryman, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1825)
1987 –
Billy Snedden, Australian politician (b. 1926)
1998 –
Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (b. 1935)
1999 –
Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
2005 –
John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
2008 –
Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
2008 –
Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)
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