What Day of the Week

June 27, 2020 is the 179^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 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 June calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 1709

  Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
• 1895

  The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• 1899

  A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
• 1923

  Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
• 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.
• 1974

  U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
• 1977

  France grants independence to Djibouti.
• 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
• 1991

  Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.

• 1550

  King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
• 1913

  Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (d. 1993)
• 1914

  Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (d. 1988)
• 1924

  Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (d. 2003)
• 1941

  Bill Baxley, American politician
• 1941

  James P. Hogan, British science fiction author (d. 2010)
• 1943

  Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress
• 1962

  Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
• 1975

  Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer
• 1980

  Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer

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