What are the important events that happened on March 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 27: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 27 is the 86th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 14, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,743,033,600 seconds 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 ‘octacontahexagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 327 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 4,479 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 27 Historical Events
- 196 BC –Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
- 1851 –First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
- 1871 –The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
- 1910 –A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
- 1938 –Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
- 1948 –The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
- 1980 –Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
- 1986 –A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
- 1990 –The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
- 2004 –HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
Who were born on March 27?
- 1765 –Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
- 1879 –Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
- 1923 –Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet
- 1935 –Stanley Rother, American Catholic priest and missionary (d. 1981)
- 1952 –Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
- 1957 –Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997)
- 1962 –Jann Arden, Canadian musician
- 1969 –Kevin Corrigan, American actor
- 1975 –Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
- 1986 –Melissa Stern (Baby M), American custody case figure
Who died on March 27?
- 1462 –Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
- 1482 –Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I (b. 1457)
- 1555 –William Hunter, Protestant martyr
- 1918 –Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
- 1927 –Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
- 1988 –Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
- 1989 –May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
- 1991 –Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)
- 2003 –Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
- 2010 –Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster (b. 1921)
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