Thursday June 27, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

June 27: Day of the Week

June 27, 2024 is the 179th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of the 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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Zodiac & Birthstone

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 Event(s)

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.
1941
Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
1950
The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1954
The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
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
1982
Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
1989
The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted.
2007
The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
2008
In a highly-scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party’s supporters.

Who were born on June 27?

1885
Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (d. 1950)
1932
Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
1938
Tommy Cannon, British comedian
1943
Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
1959
Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer
1959
Lorrie Morgan, American country music singer
1969
Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater
1983
Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
1984
Khloé Kardashian, American reality television star
1986
Antoine Dodson, Internet celebrity

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