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

• 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.
• 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.
• 1905 –
  Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
• 1927 –
  Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan’s plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the “Tanaka Memorial” is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.
• 1941 –
  German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
• 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.
• 1954 –
  The world’s first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• 1977 –
  France grants independence to Djibouti.
• 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)
• 1914 –
  Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (d. 1988)
• 1915 –
  Grace Lee Boggs, American anti-racist and feminist activist
• 1921 –
  Muriel Pavlow, British actress
• 1949 –
  Vera Wang, American fashion designer
• 1956 –
  Ted Haggard, American evangelical preacher
• 1967 –
  Sylvie Fréchette, French-Canadian synchronized swimmer
• 1971 –
  Jo Frost, English nanny and television host
• 1985 –
  Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
• 1990 –
  Taylor Phinney, American cyclist

Who died on June 27?

• 1655 –
  Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
• 1720 –
  Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
• 1794 –
  Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (b. 1729)
• 1794 –
  Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French nobleman (b. 1715)
• 1957 –
  Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924)
• 2005 –
  John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
• 2005 –
  Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
• 2006 –
  Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as “The Railway Killer” (b. 1959)
• 2008 –
  Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)
• 2009 –
  Gale Storm, TV Personality (b. 1922)