Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: January 27
January 27, 2024 is the 27th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aquarius is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 27
- 1343 –Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
- 1888 –The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
- 1909 –The Young Left is founded in Norway.
- 1939 –First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
- 1945 –World War II: The Red Army liberates the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
- 1952 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1993 –American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport’s highest rank of yokozuna.
- 1996 –Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- 2002 –An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
Who were born on January 27?
- 1919 –Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American musician (d. 1972)
- 1936 –Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1942 –Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 1986)
- 1954 –Peter Laird, American comic book artist
- 1964 –Jack Haley, American basketball player
- 1967 –Bobby Deol, Indian actor
- 1969 –Cornelius, Japanese musician and producer (Flipper’s Guitar)
- 1978 –Pete Laforest, Canadian baseball player
- 1979 –Liesbet Van Breedam, Belgian beach volleyball player
- 1987 –Katy Rose, American pop singer
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