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 117th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 14, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,095,200 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 ‘hectadecaheptagon’ day.
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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 296 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 4,510 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 27 Historical Events
- 1509 –Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
- 1773 –The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
- 1861 –President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
- 1904 –The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
- 1927 –Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
- 1936 –The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
- 1960 –Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
- 1978 –Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
- 1992 –The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
- 2002 –The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
Who were born on April 27?
- 1791 –Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
- 1862 –Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish-born American actor (d. 1930)
- 1899 –Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)
- 1904 –Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)
- 1927 –Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist; widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2006)
- 1969 –Grahame Cheney, Australian boxer
- 1971 –Tess Daly, British television presenter
- 1972 –Mehmet Kurtuluş, German/Turkish actor
- 1972 –Nigel Barker, English fashion photographer
- 1975 –Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player
Who died on April 27?
- 1404 –Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
- 1599 –Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)
- 1625 –Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
- 1695 –John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)
- 1882 –Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
- 1896 –Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
- 1932 –Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899)
- 1996 –William Colby, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1920)
- 1998 –Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (b. 1925)
- 1998 –John Bassett, Canadian publisher and media baron (b. 1915)
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