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- 0678 Saint Agatho begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
- 1358 Republic of Dubrovnik founded
- 1693 The first woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
- 1709 Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
- 1759 General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
- 1806 Buenos Aires captured by British
- 1806 The British capture Buenos Aires during the British invasions of the Ro de la Plata.
- 1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn
- 1844 Joseph Smith, Jr. was murdered at the Carthage, Illinois jail, along with his brother, Hyrum Smith, by a mob.
- 1847 NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires
- 1857 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia
- 1862 Day 3 of the 7 Days-Battle of Gaines' Mill
- 1867 The Bank of California is created.
- 1884 The SS Caesarea, sank 10 miles off Cap de la Hague, Channel Islands, after being in a collision with the Strathesk on a voyage from Southampton.
- 1890 Canadian boxer George 'Little Chocolate' Dixon 1870-1909 wins world bantamweight crown.
- 1893 Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
- 1898 The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
- 1905 (June 14 according to the Julian calendar): Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein's classic film on the subject, The Battleship Potemkin).
- 1914 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
- 1915 100ø F (38ø C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)
- 1917 Ultonia, built for Cunard by Swan Hunter at Wallsend on Tyne, of 8845 tons, she was sunk by the German submarine U53 190 miles south west of the Fastnet Rock. Two people were killed.
- 1922 Newberry Medal first presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
- 1929 The first color TV demo (NYC)
- 1930 P Parchomenko discovers asteroid #1166 Sakuntala
- 1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
- 1940 800 Jews are burned alive inside Great Synagogue. 1,200 others die in shooting.
- 1940 HMS WREN, sunk 10 miles of Aldeburgh, eastern England in North Sea - by German bombers.
- 1940 USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar
- 1941 German troops capture the city of Biaystok during Operation Barbarossa.
- 1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs that came from from a sub off NY's Long Island
- 1944 476,000 are deported to Auschwitz since May 15.
- 1944 Cherbourg, France captured by Allies
- 1949 W Baade discovers asteroid #1566 Icarus
- 1949 Visitor posting - June 27 1949 Jerry's Birthday
- 1950 Pres Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
- 1950 RAAF bomber squadron sent to Malaya to assist the British in counter insurgency work against communist guerrillas during the Malayan Emergency
- 1950 The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
- 1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
- 1950 Visitor posting - June 27, 1950 - Ann Riley Webb is born in Reynolds, GA
- 1953 Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
- 1954 The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
- 1955 First automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
- 1957 390 die by Hurricane Audrey in coastal La & Tx
- 1957 Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
- 1957 In the USSR (Russia) a quake resulted in 1,200 dead no more details (national security?)
- 1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
- 1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
- 1962 Visitor posting - June 27, 1962 The GREAT & Wonderful Vito B was born.
- 1963 Bill J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon & McCartney "I Call Your Name"
- 1963 Pres Kennedy spent first full day in Ireland
- 1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
- 1966 First sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premiers
- 1967 Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)
- 1967 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
- 1969 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival
- 1969 Police raid the Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against the police, it lasts 3 days
- 1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
- 1973 The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup.*
- 1974 U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
- 1975 Visitor posting - JUNE 27 1975 BEAUTIFUL BRANDY MICHELLE LANE (ALLEN) WAS BORN IN SALEM AR.
- 1975 Visitor posting - Mick Was Born - United Kingdom
- 1976 Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
- 1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
- 1977 Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)
- 1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
- 1978 US Seasat 1, first oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit
- 1979 Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing.
- 1980 A commercial DC-9 (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870) crashes near Ustica, Italy, killing 81
- 1980 Visitor posting - June 27 1980 Jamie Strickland from Louisburg was born
- 1981 First Paintball Match Was Held
- 1981 Number one hit on UK music charts - Michael Jackson - One Day In Your Life
- 1983 Maxie Anderson & Don Ida die during a balloon race
- 1983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
- 1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
- 1985 First hotel strike in NY
- 1985 U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
- 1986 Anne White shocks Wimbeldon by wearing only a body stocking
- 1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
- 1986 Visitor posting - STUART BRENNAN BORN ON 27TH JUNE 1986 - United Kingdom [email protected]
- 1986 The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States.
- 1986 US informs New Zealand it will not defend it against attack
- 1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
- 1987 Visitor posting - Founded by Karamba Bayo the ever NGO in Africa called LA SAMARITAINE-GUINEE - which goal is to help indigeous youths people in Guinea
- 1987 Supreme Court Justice Powell retires
- 1988 59 are killed and 55 are injured as a runaway train in Gare de Lyon, France plows into a packed rush-hour train.
- 1988 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)
- 1990 Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims
- 1991 Slovenia, after declaring independence two days previous, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
- 1991 Visitor posting - Rebecca Monaghan was born on this day!!! historic enuf!!! - United Kingdom
- 1992 Visitor posting - SHONNA REALL was born and made the world better:) - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - TaBree was born! - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - June 27 1994 Andrew Adolphson was born
- 1994 Visitor posting - Chris Jelinek was born today - USA
- 1997 President Rahmonov, UTO leader Said Abdullah Nuri, and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General Gerd Merrem signed the "General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan" and the "Moscow Protocol" on 27 June 1997 in Moscow, Russia, ending the war.[5]
- 1997 Visitor posting - Julia M was born!!!! - Canada
- 1997 Visitor posting - Michael L. Bentley was born today!!! - USA
- 1998 In Turkey a 6.3 quake killed at least 145 people and more than 1,500 injured in the Adana and Ceyhan areas
- 1998 Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia.
- 1999 Alberta RailNet takes over the former CN Grande Cache (from Swan Landing to Grande Prairie, m. 1.80 to m. 232.90), Grande Prairie (from Rycroft to Hythe, m. 0 to m. 89.19) and Smoky (Tangent to Spirit River, m. 306.2 to m. 357.80) subdivisions in Alberta.
- 2001 International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
- 2005 AMD files broad antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
- 2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemo in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemo massacre.
- 2007 Tony Blair formally tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to Queen Elizabeth II. Gordon Brown is his successor.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Kadynce Ann Jones-Rosson was brough into this wonderful world. Happy birthday baby girl - USA
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