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 118^th 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.

April 27 Historical Events

• 1521 –
  Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
• 1861 –
  President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
• 1865 –
  The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
• 1914 –
  Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1945 –
  World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
• 1945 –
  World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
• 1987 –
  The U.S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
• 1993 –
  All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
• 1996 –
  The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
• 2002 –
  The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.

Who were born on April 27?

• 1759 –
  Mary Wollstonecraft, English author and feminist (d. 1797)
• 1920 –
  Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (d. 2010)
• 1932 –
  Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
• 1945 –
  Helen Hodgman, Australian novelist
• 1947 –
  Pete Ham, Welsh singer and songwriter (Badfinger) (d. 1975)
• 1948 –
  Frank William Abagnale, Jr., American con artist
• 1975 –
  Rabih Abdullah, American pro football player
• 1980 –
  Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1984 –
  Daniel Holdsworth, Australian rugby player
• 1994 –
  Elmo Magalona, Filipino singer and actor

Who died on April 27?

• 1695 –
  John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)
• 1702 –
  Jean Bart, French admiral (b. 1651)
• 1896 –
  Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
• 1936 –
  Karl Pearson, English statistician (b. 1857)
• 1967 –
  William Douglas Cook, founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti, (New Zealand) (b. 1884)
• 1969 –
  René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
• 1973 –
  Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (b. 1914)
• 1977 –
  Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1992 –
  Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (b. 1927)
• 1992 –
  Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)