At A Glance
27 June 2001 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 27 June 2001 was a Wednesday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Lady Marmalade” by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink.
- Top Film of 2001
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2001 was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
- Bestselling Novel of 2001
- “Desecration” by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 2001.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “Friends” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2001–02 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 27 June is Cancer.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 27 June 2001 fell in the Year of the Snake.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for June is Pearl.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 27 June 2001 was Waxing Crescent.
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election, President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.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 June 27
- 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)
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Events of 2001 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2001 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- January 15 – Wikipedia is launched.
- March 24 – Apple Computer releases the Mac OS X next-generation operating system, with version 10.0. It goes on to be the second-most used desktop operating system with a market share of roughly 10 percent.
- May 18 – Shrek is released in theaters.
Life in the US in 2001
President
George W. Bush
Gas (per gallon)
$1.46
Loaf of Bread
$1.10
Average House
$175,200
Weekly Wage
$580
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