What are the important events that happened on January 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 27: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 27 is the 27th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 338 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 14, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,737,936,000 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 ‘icosiheptagon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 2 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 4,420 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 27 Historical Events
- 1186 –Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
- 1825 –The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
- 1888 –The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
- 1909 –The Young Left is founded in Norway.
- 1943 –World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhemshafen, Germany. The first American bombing attack on Germany.
- 1951 –Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
- 1961 –Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
- 1990 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 2002 –An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
- 2010 –The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
Who were born on January 27?
- 1805 –Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
- 1805 –Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
- 1904 –James J. Gibson, American ecological psychologist (d. 1973)
- 1927 –Jerry Haynes, American actor d. 2011
- 1950 –Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
- 1964 –Bridget Fonda, American actress
- 1968 –Patrick Blondeau, French footballer
- 1972 –Josh Randall, American actor
- 1976 –Todd MacCulloch, American basketball player
- 1990 –Maria-Elena Papasotiriou, Greek-American figure skater
Who died on January 27?
- 1490 –Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
- 1814 –Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)
- 1901 –Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
- 1942 –Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
- 1971 –Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
- 1972 –Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (b. 1888)
- 1974 –Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army (b. 1898)
- 1986 –Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b. 1914)
- 2005 –Shah A M S Kibria, Finance Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1931)
- 2009 –John Updike, American novelist (b. 1932)
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