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: May 27
May 27, 2024 is the 148th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 218 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 27
- 1813 –War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
- 1863 –American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
- 1907 –Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
- 1933 –New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
- 1933 –The Century of Progress World’s Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1933 –The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
- 1980 –The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
- 1986 –the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
- 1999 –The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
- 2001 –Members of Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an upscale island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
Who were born on May 27?
- 1626 –William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
- 1925 –Tony Hillerman, American writer (d. 2008)
- 1934 –Harlan Ellison, American author
- 1943 –Bruce Weitz, American actor
- 1954 –Jackie Slater, American football player
- 1962 –Ray Borner, Australian basketball player
- 1968 –Rebekah Brooks, English journalist and newspaper editor
- 1981 –Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor
- 1984 –Blake Ahearn, American basketball player
- 1991 –Ksenia Pervak, Russian tennis player
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