What are the important events that happened on June 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 27: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 27 is the 178^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 14, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,750,982,400 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 ‘hectaheptacontaoctagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 235 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 4,571 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 27 Historical Events

• 1709 –
  Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
• 1743 –
  War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
• 1946 –
  In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
• 1954 –
  The world’s first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• 1967 –
  The world’s first ATM is installed in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom.
• 1973 –
  The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
• 1980 –
  Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
• 1981 –
  The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its “Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China”, laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
• 1982 –
  Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
• 2007 –
  The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

Who were born on June 27?

• 1696 –
  William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)
• 1838 –
  Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
• 1939 –
  Rahul Dev Burman, Indian Musician (d.1994)
• 1966 –
  Jörg Bergen, German footballer
• 1977 –
  Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
• 1977 –
  Raúl, Spanish footballer
• 1978 –
  Anna Kumble, British singer, also known as Lolly
• 1978 –
  Courtney Ford, American actress
• 1985 –
  Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
• 1988 –
  Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer

Who died on June 27?

• 1458 –
  King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
• 1720 –
  Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
• 1829 –
  James Smithson, English scientist and philanthropist (b. 1765)
• 1907 –
  Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
• 1912 –
  George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b. 1855)
• 1952 –
  Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
• 2001 –
  Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2004 –
  George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
• 2007 –
  Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (b. 1905)
• 2007 –
  Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)