At A Glance

27 June 2002 at a glance

Day of the week
27 June 2002 was a Thursday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “A Little Less Conversation” by Elvis vs. JXL.
Top Film of 2002
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2002 was The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Star sign
The star sign for 27 June is Cancer.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 27 June 2002 fell in the Year of the Horse.
Birthstone
The birthstone for June is Pearl.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 27 June 2002 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 27 June

  • 1991 Two days after it had declared independence, Slovenia is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
  • 1995 Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-71, the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
  • 2007 Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. Chancellor Gordon Brown succeeds him.
  • 2008 In a highly scrutinized election, President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
  • 2013 NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space probe to observe the Sun.

Famous people born on 27 June

  • Tobey Maguire, American actor (born 1975)
  • Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist (1880–1968)
  • H.E.R., American singer-songwriter (born 1997)
  • J. J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1966)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 2002 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '2002 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 2 March – The animated series of Mr. Bean premieres on ITV1. It is based on Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean.
  • 11 March – BBC 6 Music, the first new BBC Radio station in decades, is launched.
  • 24 May – Falkirk Wheel boat lift opens in Scotland, also marking the reopening of the Union Canal for leisure traffic.

Life in 2002

Prime Minister

Tony Blair

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Pint of Beer

£2.00

Loaf of Bread

76p

Average House

£117,748

Weekly Wage

£506.00

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