What Day of the Week

June 27, 2020 was the 179^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 187 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.

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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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• 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.
• 1898

  The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• 1946

  In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
• 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.
• 1954

  The world’s first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• 1971

  After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the “Church of Rock and Roll”.
• 1976

  Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
• 1981

  The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its “Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China”, laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
• 1988

  Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
• 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election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party’s supporters.

• 1696

  William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)
• 1880

  Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d. 1968)
• 1892

  Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985)
• 1937

  Kirkpatrick Sale, American author
• 1964

  Chuck Person, American basketball player
• 1969

  Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater
• 1972

  Dawud Wharnsby, Canadian poet and singer/songwriter
• 1987

  India de Beaufort, British actress
• 1988

  Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast
• 1991

  Madylin Sweeten, American actress

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