What day of the week was February 27, 2012?

The day of the week February 27th, 2012 fell on was a Monday.

Ely Bielutin the Russian painter (b. 1925) died on this day in 2012. As did Vince Dantona the American ventriloquist (b. 1949) , Ma Jiyuan the Chinese general (b. 1921) , Tina Strobos the Dutch physician and psychiatrist (b. 1920) , Helga Vlahović the Croatian journalist and producer (b. 1945) .

A section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan the Russia, collapses in a natural gas explosion, killing 10 people and injuring at least 12 others.