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July 27: Day of the Week
July 27, 2024 is the 209th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 157 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is sábado.
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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
July 27 Historical Event(s)
1054
Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
1549
The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier’s ship reaches Japan.
1862
Sailing from San Francisco to Panama City, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 231.
1865
Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1942
World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
1981
British television: on Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show.
1987
RMS Titanic, Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1996
Centennial Olympic Park bombing: in Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. One woman (Alice Hawthorne) is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. 111 are injured.
2005
STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
2006
The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
Who were born on July 27?
1882
Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1916
Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic and novelist (d. 2007)
1921
Émile Genest, Quebec actor (d. 2003)
1937
Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009)
1941
Johannes Fritsch, German composer (d. 2010)
1959
Hugh Green, American football player
1968
Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
1975
Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
1983
Lorik Cana, Albanian footballer
1985
Benedita Pereira, Portuguese actress
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Holy Toledo! Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Let’s give it a quick spin. Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters QZSNQQAOI? Check your answers here: Word finder QZSNQQAOI. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
Are you not curious to discover some fun facts about your birthday? Find out ‘what happened on my birthday’ and what was the number one song on your day of birth. Know the meaning of your special day and who shares your birthday! (Sponsored link)
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