What Day of the Week

January 27, 2020 was the 27^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 339 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.

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Here’s the January calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 1186

  Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
• 1868

  Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
• 1941

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
• 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.
• 1961

  Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
• 1967

  Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
• 1983

  The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world’s longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
• 1984

  Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
• 1993

  American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport’s highest rank of yokozuna.
• 2003

  The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.

• 1774

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (d. 1854)
• 1885

  Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)
• 1926

  Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
• 1936

  Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1944

  Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)
• 1955

  John G. Roberts, American jurist and the 17th Chief Justice of the United States
• 1962

  Roberto Paci Dalò, Italian director and composer
• 1964

  Bridget Fonda, American actress
• 1967

  Byron Mann, Hong Kong actor
• 1969

  Marc Forster, German-Swiss filmmaker

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