June 27

 Holidays and Observances

2018 Daily Holidays that fall on June 27, include:

• Decide to be Married Day 
• Happy Birthday to You Day 
• Helen Keller Day
• Industrial Workers of the World Day 
• National HIV Testing Day 
• National Indian Pudding Day 
• National Orange Blossom Day 
  
• National Parchment Cooking Day - June 27, 2018 (Last Wednesday in June)
• PTSD Awareness Day 
• Sun Glasses Day 
• Windjammer Day - June 27, 2018

2018 Weekly Holidays that include June 27, are:

• Carpenter Ant Awareness Week - June 24-30, 2018 (Last Full Week of June)
• Fish are Friends, Not Food Week! - June 24-30, 2018 (Last week of June)
• National Lightning Safety Awareness Week - June 24-30, 2018 (Last Full Week of June)
• National Mosquito Control Awareness Week - June 24-30, 2018 (Last Full Week in June)
• National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness - June 27 - July 4 
• Watermelon Seed Spitting Week - June 24-30, 2018
• Windjammer Days - June 24-30, 2018

2018 Monthly Holidays that include June 27, are:

There are too many monthly holidays to include here, so please check out our June Holidays page to see all of the holidays that are celebrated the entire month of June.

NOTE:

1. A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
2. If a date is a movable holiday, that is different every year, I'll include the year as well as the date rule above. Otherwise, the holiday falls on the same date each year.

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for June 27 is Cancer.

Birth Flower of the Month

Birthstone

The Birthstone(s) for June is:

• Pearls which have been popular in jewelry for centuries because of their natural beauty.
• Alexandrite gemstones are extremely rate and change color based on the lighting
• Moonstone

Famous Birthdays

• 1880 - Helen Keller, American author who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree (d. 1968)
• 1899 - Juan Trippe, American businessman who founded Pan American World Airways (d. 1981)
• 1949 - Vera Wang, American figure skater and fashion designer
• 1966 - J.J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter (Felicity, Alias, Lost, Fringe as well as various Star Trek and Star Wars projects)

Famous Deaths

• 2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (The Odd Couple, Grumpy Old Men) (b. 1925)
• 2004 - George Patton IV, American General, son of World War II Veteran George S. Patton, Jr., he served in the Korean and Vietnam War (b. 1923)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1964 - Actress and singer Ethel Merman marries actor Ernest Borgnine
• 1992 - Singer and songwriter Andrea Bocelli marries Enrica Cenzatti
• 1993 - Actress Julia Roberts marries country singer Lyle Lovett
• 1998 - Princess Alexandra of Greece marries perfume executive Nicolas Mirzayantz

Quote of the Day

Today, June 27th is Decide To Be Married Day!

Recipe of the Day or a
Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day

Journaling is the single best predictor of whether a person will lose weight or not, and make Lifestyle Changes. People who journal, lose twice as much weight as those that don’t!! Most people have no idea how much food they eat on any given day. We grab and go, multitask, mindlessly eat while watching television and when asked what we ate, have virtually no remembrance. It is impossible to estimate how much we have eaten. That is why it is so difficult to lose weight.

Find out more about Food Journaling from Kerry's Healthy Diet Habits website!

This Day in History

• 1844 - The founder of the Latter Day Saints, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith are killed in an Illinois jail by a mob
• 1895 - The first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue, has it's inaugural run from Washington D.C. to New York City
• 1898 - Joshua Slocum completes the first solo circumnavigation of the globe from Briar Island, Nova Scotia
• 1950 - The U.S. decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War
• 1957 - Hurricane Audrey kills over 400 people when it makes landfall near the Texas and Louisiana border
• 1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union
• 1976 - A flight from Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris (Air France Flight 139) is hijacked by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda
• 1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti
• 1980 - 81 people are killed when Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 explodes in mid-air while flying from Bologna, to Palermo Italini
• 1991 - Two day after declaring independence, Slovenia is invaded by Yugoslav starting the Ten-Day War
• 1994 - Sarin Gas is released in Matsumoto, Japan by the members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult who kill seven and injure 660
• 2013 - NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectograph to observe the Sun
• 2015 - 510 people are injured from a midair explosion due to flammable powder at a recreational water park in Taiway

This Day in Music

• 1971 - Rock Music promoter Bill Graham closes Fillmore East in New York after three years in business
• 1976 - John Lennon receives his green card from the US Dept. of Naturalization
• 1987 - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) by Whitney Houston hits #1 on the Hot 100
• 1989 - Tom Jones receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 2009 - Neil Young and Paul McCartney perform a duet of A Day in the Life in London's Hyde Park

This Day in Sports

• 1894 - American Annie Londonderry becomes the first woman to bicycle around the world
• 1917 - Hank Gowdy is the first baseball player that enters military service during World War I
• 1939 - The Brooklyn Dogers and Boston Braves tie 2-2 in 23 innings
• 1954 - The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Brazil and Hungary turns violent with three players ejected from the game

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!