What day of the week was February 27, 1942?

The day of the week February 27th, 1942 fell on was a Friday.

Jimmy Burns the American singer-songwriter and guitarist was born on 27 February in 1942. As was Michel Forget the Canadian actor , Robert H. Grubbs the American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate , Charlayne Hunter-Gault the American journalist , Klaus-Dieter Sieloff the German footballer (d. 2011) .

World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea the an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.