June 27: Day Of The Week
June 27, 2013 is the 178th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.
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Here’s the June calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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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.
June 27 Historical Events
- 1358 –Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
- 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.
- 1898 –The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
- 1905 –Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
- 1923 –Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
- 1971 –After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the “Church of Rock and Roll”.
- 1973 –The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
- 1976 –Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
- 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.
Who were born on June 27?
- 1717 –Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
- 1838 –Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
- 1943 –Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
- 1956 –Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
- 1956 –Ted Haggard, American evangelical preacher
- 1971 –Yancey Arias, American actor
- 1975 –Tobey Maguire, American actor
- 1977 –Raúl, Spanish footballer
- 1978 –Courtney Ford, American actress
- 1984 –Rocío Guirao Díaz, Argentinian model
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