June 27

June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 187 days remaining.

Events

• 1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
• 1759 – General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
• 1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr. murdered with brother Hyrum in Carthage Jail, Carthage, Illinois.
• 1864 – Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the American Civil War.
• 1893 – Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1898 – First solo circumnavigation of the globe completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island Nova Scotia.
• 1905 – Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin.
• 1945 – Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard sends memo to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson urging that the United States give "preliminary warning" to Japan before using the atomic bomb on a Japanese target.
• 1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
• 1953 – Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1954 – World's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• 1957 – Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
• 1967 – World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.
• 1972 – ATARI is established by Nolan Bushnell.
• 1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
• 1979 – Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing.
• 1980 – A commercial DC-9 (Itavia Flight 870) was apparently shot down.
• 1984 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
• 1985 – Route 66 ceases to be an official highway.
• 1986 – International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the Nicaragua v. United States.
• 1991 – Slovenia, which declared independent two days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft.
• 1995 – Jodi Huisentruit, an anchorwoman in Mason City, Iowa disappears, presumably abducted.
• 2001 – International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.

Births

• 1194 – Sancho VI of Navarre
• 1462 – King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
• 1550 – King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
• 1682 – King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718) (June 17 in Swedish calendar)
• 1838 – Paul von Mauser, weapon designer (d. 1914)
• 1850 – Lafcadio Hearn, author (d. 1904)
• 1869 – Hans Spemann, zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1935 (d. 1941)
• 1869 – Emma Goldman, anarchist, feminist, free love advocate (d. 1940)
• 1870 – Frank Rattray Lillie, zoologist, embryologist (d. 1947)
• 1880 – Helen Keller, spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Eduard Spranger, philosopher, psychologist and educator (d. 1963)
• 1906 – Catherine Cookson, author (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Willie Mosconi, professional billiards player (d. 1993)
• 1925 – Jerome Felder, AKA Doc Pomus, musician, composer (d. 1991)
• 1928 – Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
• 1927 – Otto Herbert Hajek, sculptor
• 1930 – Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
• 1931 – Charles Bronfman, industrialist
• 1932 – Anna Moffo, American soprano
• 1941 – Raymond Winn, Utah Professional Engineer
• 1941 – Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director (d. 1996)
• 1949 – Vera Wang, fashion designer
• 1954 – Patsy Hernandez, Controller Garfield County
• 1955 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress
• 1959 – Clint Boon, musician best known for playing keyboards in the band Inspiral Carpets
• 1962 – Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
• 1963 – Meera Syal, comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress
• 1966 – J. J. Abrams, television writer and producer
• 1970 – Jim Edmonds, baseball player
• 1970 – Vitamin C, pop singer
• 1975 – Tobey Maguire, actor
• 1977 – Raúl, Spanish football star
• 1983 – Alsou, Russian singer
• 1991 – Madylin Sweeten, actress
• 1991 – Spencer Pace, scholar (future director)

Deaths

• 363 – Emperor Julian
• 1162 – Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
• 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch (b. 1099)
• 1458 – Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
• 1655 – Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
• 1829 – James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute
• 1831 – Sophie Germain, mathematician (b. 1776)
• 1844 – Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
• 1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr. founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
• 1952 – Elmo Lincoln, actor
• 1957 – Malcolm Lowry, novelist (b. 1909)
• 1960 – Lottie Dod, English athlete
• 1970 – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
• 1998 – Kerim Tekin, Turkish singer
• 2001 – Jack Lemmon, actor and film director (b. 1925)

• 2001 – Tove Jansson, author of the Moomin books (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and director
• 2002 – John Entwistle, bass player for The Who (b. 1944)
• 2004 – Darrell Russell, NHRA drag racer (b. 1968)

Holidays and observances

• Feast of St Cyril of Alexandria
• National HIV Testing Day in United States
• Stonewall Day (date of many gay pride celebrations, including those in New York City, San Francisco, Toronto, and Madrid)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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