Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 27
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This is a list of selected June 27 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 678 – Saint Agatho began his reign as Pope.
- 1358 – Republic of Ragusa founded.
- 1898 – Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the globe sailing on his refitted sloop-rigged fishing boat Spray, a distance of more than 46,000 miles (74,000 km).
- 1905 – The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin (pictured) began a mutiny against their oppressive officers.
- 1967 – The world's first electronic automated teller machine was installed in Enfield Town, London.
- 1991 – Yugoslavia invaded Slovenia, two days after the latter's declaration of independence from the former, starting the Ten-Day War.
