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What are the important events that happened on April 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 27: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 27 is the 118th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 14, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,569,600 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 ‘hectadecaoctagon’ day.
Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 277 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 4,145 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 27 Historical Events
- 1539 –Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- 1650 –The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
- 1805 –First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The “shores of Tripoli” part of the Marines’ hymn).
- 1810 –Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
- 1959 –The last Canadian missionary leaves the People’s Republic of China.
Who were born on April 27?
- 1932 –Anouk Aimée, French actress
- 1932 –Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
- 1975 –Chris Carpenter, American baseball player
- 1979 –Natasha Chokljat, Australian netballer
- 1980 –Ananda Mikola, Indonesian racing driver
Who died on April 27?
- 1404 –Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
- 1599 –Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)
- 1613 –Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)
- 1813 –Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (b. 1779)
- 1992 –Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
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