June 27

June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1358 – Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
• 1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
• 1556 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
• 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
• 1759 – General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
• 1760 – Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War.
• 1806 – British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
• 1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
• 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• 1899 – A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
• 1905 – Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
• 1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the "Tanaka Memorial" is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.
• 1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
• 1941 – German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
• 1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
• 1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
• 1952 – Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
• 1954 – The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• 1954 – The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
• 1957 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
• 1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".
• 1973 – The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
• 1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
• 1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
• 1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
• 1980 – Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
• 1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
• 1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
• 1985 – U.S. Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System.
• 1988 – Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
• 1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
• 2007 – Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997.
• 2007 – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
• 2008 – In a highly-scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
• 2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.

Births

• 1040 – Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
• 1350 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1425)
• 1462 – Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
• 1550 – Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
• 1696 – William Pepperrell, American merchant and soldier (d. 1759)
• 1717 – Louis Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
• 1805 – Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
• 1817 – Louise von François, German author (d. 1893)
• 1838 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1894)
• 1838 – Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (d. 1914)
• 1846 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (d. 1891)
• 1850 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
• 1850 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek author (d. 1904)
• 1862 – May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1938)
• 1865 – John Monash, Australian engineer and general (d. 1931)
• 1869 – Kate Carew, American caricaturist and journalist (d. 1961)
• 1869 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-American activist (d. 1940)
• 1869 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
• 1872 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1906)
• 1880 – Natalia Brasova, Russian wife of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1952)
• 1880 – Helen Keller, American author and activist (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and educator (d. 1963)
• 1884 – Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
• 1885 – Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (d. 1950)
• 1886 – Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1888 – Lewis Bernstein Namier, Polish-English historian (d. 1960)
• 1888 – Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (d. 1946)
• 1892 – Paul Colin, French illustrator (d. 1985)
• 1899 – Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (d. 1981)
• 1905 – Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
• 1906 – Catherine Cookson, English author (d. 1998)
• 1906 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (d. 1967)
• 1907 – John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1908 – João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian author (d. 1967)
• 1909 – Billy Curtis, American film and television actor (d. 1988)
• 1913 – Elton Britt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972)
• 1913 – Willie Mosconi, American pool player (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)
• 1914 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1988)
• 1915 – Grace Lee Boggs, American author and activist
• 1921 – Muriel Pavlow, English actress
• 1923 – Jacques Berthier, French composer (d. 1994)
• 1923 – Elmo Hope, American pianist (d. 1967)
• 1924 – Rosalie Allen, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
• 1925 – Claire Bonenfant, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Leonard Lerman, American geneticist (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Doc Pomus, American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
• 1926 – Don Raleigh, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Bob Keeshan, American actor and producer (d. 2004)
• 1928 – James Lincoln Collier, American journalist and author
• 1928 – Rudy Perpich, American politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (d. 1995)
• 1929 – Dick the Bruiser, American football player and wrestler (d. 1991)
• 1929 – Peter Maas, American journalist and author (d. 2001)
• 1930 – Tommy Kono, Japanese-American weightlifter
• 1930 – Ross Perot, American businessman and politician
• 1931 – Charles Bronfman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist
• 1931 – Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – Eddie Kasko, American baseball player and manager
• 1932 – Anna Moffo, American soprano and actress (d. 2006)
• 1932 – Magali Noël, French actress and singer
• 1935 – Laurent Terzieff, French actor (d. 2010)
• 1935 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino actor and director (d. 2007)
• 1936 – Lucille Clifton, American author and poet (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Joseph P. Allen, American physicist and astronaut
• 1937 – Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Kirkpatrick Sale, American author
• 1938 – Bruce Babbitt, American politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1938 – Kathryn Beaumont, English voice actress and singer
• 1938 – Tommy Cannon, English comedian, actor, and author
• 1938 – Shirley Anne Field, English actress
• 1938 – Konrad Kujau, German illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1939 – R.D. Burman, Indian composer (d. 1994)
• 1939 – Ivan Doig, American author
• 1941 – Bill Baxley, American politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama
• 1941 – James P. Hogan, English author (d. 2010)
• 1941 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Avi Lerner, Israeli-American film producer
• 1942 – Bruce Johnston, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Beach Boys and Bruce & Terry)
• 1942 – Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer
• 1942 – Jérôme Savary, Argentinian-French actor and director (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian-English actress
• 1943 – Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1944 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist
• 1945 – Joey Covington, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna) (d. 2013)
• 1948 – Camile Baudoin, American guitarist (The Radiators)
• 1949 – Vera Wang, American figure skater and fashion designer
• 1950 – Peter J. Schmitt, American politician (d. 2012)
• 1951 – Anita Diamant, American author
• 1951 – Julia Duffy, American actress
• 1951 – Mary McAleese, Irish politician, 8th President of Ireland
• 1952 – Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d. 1993)
• 1953 – Igor Gräzin, Estonian politician
• 1953 – Alice McDermott, American author
• 1955 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress and singer
• 1955 – Brad Diller, American illustrator
• 1956 – Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
• 1956 – Brad Childress, American football player and coach
• 1956 – Scott Cunningham, American author (d. 1993)
• 1956 – Ted Haggard, American pastor
• 1957 – John Bolaris, American meteorologist
• 1958 – Lisa Germano, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (OP8 and Eels)
• 1958 – Brian Helicopter, English bass player (The Shapes, HellsBelles, and Rogue Male)
• 1958 – Magnus Lindberg, Finnish pianist and composer
• 1958 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (d. 1996)
• 1959 – Dan Jurgens, American author and illustrator
• 1959 – Lorrie Morgan, American singer
• 1960 – Craig Hodges, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 – Meera Syal, English actress, singer, and producer
• 1962 – Michael Ball, English actor and singer
• 1962 – Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1963 – Johnny Benson, Jr., American race car driver
• 1963 – Jay Karnes, American actor
• 1963 – Igor Kusin, Croatian linguist and author
• 1963 – Paul Roos, Australian footballer and coach
• 1964 – Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Chuck Person, American basketball player and coach
• 1966 – J. J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Jörg Bergen, German footballer and manager
• 1967 – Sylvie Fréchette, Canadian swimmer
• 1967 – Jeff Conine, American baseball player
• 1968 – Kelly Ayotte, American politician
• 1968 – Pascale Bussières, Canadian actress
• 1969 – Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater
• 1970 – Ahmed Ahmed, Egyptian-American actor and comedian
• 1970 – Régine Cavagnoud, French skier
• 1970 – John Eales, Australian rugby player
• 1970 – Jim Edmonds, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1971 – Yancey Arias, American actor and producer
• 1971 – Jo Frost, English nanny, television host, and author
• 1971 – Kieren Keke, Nauruan doctor and politician
• 1972 – Dawud Wharnsby, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist
• 1974 – Christian Kane, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1974 – Christopher O'Neill, British-American businessman and the husband of Princess Madeleine of Sweden
• 1975 – Ace Darling, American wrestler
• 1975 – Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer
• 1975 – Tobey Maguire, American actor and producer
• 1975 – Daryle Ward, American baseball player
• 1976 – Johnny Estrada, American baseball player
• 1976 – Leigh Nash, American singer-songwriter (Sixpence None the Richer)
• 1977 – Raúl, Spanish footballer
• 1977 – Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
• 1978 – Lolly, English singer and actress
• 1978 – Courtney Ford, American actress
• 1979 – Kim Gyu-ri, South Korean actress
• 1979 – Benjamin Speed, Australian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1979 – John Warne, American bass player (Relient K and Ace Troubleshooter)
• 1980 – Jennifer Goodridge, American keyboard player (Your Enemies Friends)
• 1980 – Kevin Pietersen, South African-English cricketer
• 1980 – Craig Terrill, American football player
• 1980 – Hugo Campagnaro, Argentine footballer
• 1981 – John Driscoll, American actor
• 1981 – Andrew Embley, Australian footballer
• 1983 – Alsou, Russian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
• 1983 – Jim Johnson, American baseball player
• 1983 – Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
• 1983 – Evan Taubenfeld, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1984 – Rocío Guirao Díaz, Argentinian model
• 1984 – José Holebas, German-Greek footballer
• 1984 – Martin Hurt, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer
• 1984 – Khloé Kardashian, American businesswoman, model, and radio host
• 1984 – D. J. King, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
• 1984 – Julie Ordon, Swiss model and actress
• 1985 – James Hook, Welsh rugby player
• 1985 – Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
• 1985 – Nico Rosberg, German race car driver
• 1986 – Drake Bell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1986 – Evgeniya Belyakova, Russian basketball player
• 1986 – Sam Claflin, English actor
• 1986 – Antoine Dodson, American singer
• 1986 – LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
• 1986 – Sean Plott, American gamer
• 1987 – India de Beaufort, English actress and singer
• 1987 – Ed Westwick, English actor
• 1988 – Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast
• 1988 – Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Colin Tilley, American director
• 1988 – Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
• 1989 – Hana Birnerová, Czech tennis player
• 1989 – Matthew Lewis, English actor
• 1989 – Bruna Tenório, Brazilian model
• 1990 – Aselin Debison, Canadian singer
• 1990 – Campbell Gillies, Scottish jockey (d. 2012)
• 1990 – Taylor Phinney, American cyclist
• 1991 – Madylin Sweeten, American actress
• 1992 – Sohee, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Wonder Girls)
• 1994 – Anita Husarić, Bosnian tennis player
• 1996 – Tanay Chheda, Indian actor and author
• 1999 – Chandler Riggs, American actor

Deaths

• 1162 – Odo II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
• 1458 – Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
• 1574 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, architect, and historian (b. 1511)
• 1603 – Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1539)
• 1627 – John Hayward, English historian (b. 1564)
• 1636 – Date Masamune, Japanese strongman (b. 1567)
• 1655 – Eleonore Gonzaga, Roman wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
• 1672 – Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (b. 1597)
• 1720 – Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
• 1773 – Mentewab, Ethiopian wife of Bakaffa (b. 1706)
• 1794 – Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (b. 1711)
• 1794 – Anne d'Arpajon, French noblewoman (b. 1729)
• 1794 – Philippe de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1715)
• 1825 – Domenico Vantini, Italian painter (b. 1765)
• 1827 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
• 1829 – James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1765)
• 1831 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
• 1839 – Ranjit Singh, Pakistani emperor (b. 1780)
• 1844 – Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
• 1844 – Joseph Smith, American religious leader, founded the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1805)
• 1878 – Sidney Breese, U.S. senator from Illinois known as the "father of the Illinois Central Railroad" (b. 1800)
• 1896 – John Berryman, British soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1825)
• 1905 – Harold Mahony, Irish tennis player (b. 1867)
• 1907 – Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator, co-founder of Radcliffe College (b. 1822)
• 1912 – George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b. 1855)
• 1917 – Karl Allmenröder, German pilot (b. 1896)
• 1919 – Peter Sturholdt, American boxer (b. 1885)
• 1920 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1839)
• 1934 – Francesco Buhagiar, Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1876)
• 1935 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American inventor (b. 1857)
• 1944 – Milan Hodža, Czech politician, 10th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1878)
• 1944 – Alf West, English footballer (b. 1881)
• 1946 – Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (b. 1893)
• 1949 – Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (b. 1900)
• 1952 – Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
• 1957 – Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924)
• 1958 – Ragna Wettergreen, Norwegian actress (b. 1864)
• 1960 – Lottie Dod, English tennis player (b. 1871)
• 1962 – Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
• 1967 – Jaan Lattik, Estonian politician and writer (b. 1878)
• 1970 – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
• 1986 – George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Billy Snedden, Australian politician (b. 1926)
• 1989 – A. J. Ayer, English philosopher (b. 1910)
• 1991 – Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (b. 1953)
• 1991 – Milton Subotsky, American-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Tai Solarin, Nigerian educator and activist (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian politician (b. 1935)
• 1999 – Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
• 2000 – Molly Bish, American murder victim (b. 1983)
• 2000 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and singer (b. 1925)
• 2002 – John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Who) (b. 1944)
• 2002 – Robert L. J. Long, American admiral (b. 1920)
• 2003 – David Newman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 2004 – George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
• 2005 – Shelby Foote, American historian and author (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Frank Harte, Irish singer (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Domino Harvey, English bounty hunter (b. 1969)
• 2005 – Ray Holmes, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1914)
• 2005 – John T. Walton, American businessman, co-founded the Children's Scholarship Fund (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
• 2007 – William Hutt, Canadian actor (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (b. 1905)
• 2008 – Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Michael Turner, American illustrator (b. 1971)
• 2009 – Fayette Pinkney, American singer (The Three Degrees) (b. 1948)
• 2009 – Gale Storm, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Mike Doyle, English footballer (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Stan Cox, English runner (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet and illustrator (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Jesse Glover, American martial artist (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Don Grady, American actor and composer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Jerónimo Tomás Abreu Herrera, Dominican bishop (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Iurie Miterev, Moldovan footballer (b. 1975)
• 2012 – Konstantinos Triaridis, Greek politician (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer (b. 1964)
• 2013 – Dudley Knight, American actor and educator (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Alain Mimoun, French runner (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Bill Robertson, American politician (b. 1938)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day, formerly Veterans' Day (United Kingdom)
• Canadian Multiculturalism Day (Canada)
• Helen Keller Day (United States)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Crescens, one of the Seventy Disciples
  • Cyril of Alexandria (Coptic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion and Lutheran Church)
  • Ladislaus I of Hungary
  • Our Lady of Perpetual Help
  • June 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art (Turkmenistan)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Djibouti from France in 1977
• Mixed Race Day (Brazil)
• National HIV Testing Day (United States)
• National Unity Day (Tajikistan)
• Seven Sleepers Day or Siebenschläfertag (Germany)
• Festival in honor of Lares (Roman Empire)

External links

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