What Day of the Week

January 27, 2019 was the 27^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 338 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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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• 661

  The Rashidun Caliphate ends with death of Ali.
• 1785

  The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
• 1888

  The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
• 1927

  Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
• 1945

  World War II: The Red Army liberates the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
• 1967

  The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
• 1971

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
• 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.
• 1996

  In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.

• 1621

  Thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675)
• 1805

  Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
• 1848

  Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
• 1924

  Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
• 1937

  John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
• 1940

  Petru Lucinschi, second President of Moldova
• 1948

  Valeri Brainin, Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet
• 1954

  Ed Schultz, American radio talk show host
• 1969

  Marc Forster, German-Swiss filmmaker
• 1989

  Daisy Lowe, British model

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