June 27Birthdays & History

On this day: June 27 in history

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1. 363Jovian is proclaimed Roman emperor following the death of emperor Julian in the previous night.Europe
2. 678Pope Agatho is consecrated following the death of pope Donus two months prior.Europe
3. 1499Amerigo Vespucci sights what is now Amapá State in Brazil.Latin America
4. 1556The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.Europe
5. 1743In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.Europe
6. 1760Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.EuropeNorth America
7. 1806British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.EuropeLatin America
8. 1844Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.North America
9. 1864American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta campaign.North America
10. 1895The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.North America
11. 1898The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.North America
12. 1905During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.AsiaEurope
13. 1914The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.North America
14. 1924The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens after five years of construction, providing a land connection for road and rail vehicles travelling between Johor and Singapore.Asia
15. 1927Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.AsiaAsia
16. 1928The Rovaniemi township decree is promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi secedes from the old rural municipality as its own market town on January 1, 1929.Europe
17. 1941World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.Europe
18. 1941Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.Europe
19. 1944World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese.AsiaAsiaEurope
20. 1946In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.North America
21. 1950The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.North AmericaAsia
22. 1954The 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.EuropeLatin America
23. 1954The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.Europe
24. 1957Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.North America
25. 1973The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.Latin America
26. 1974U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.North AmericaEurope
27. 1976Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PFLP and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.EuropeMiddle EastAfrica
28. 1977Constitution for the Federation of Earth was adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria.Europe
29. 1977France grants independence to Djibouti.EuropeAfrica
30. 1980The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.Europe
31. 1981The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 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.Asia
32. 1982Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.World
33. 1988The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.Europe
34. 1988Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.Latin America
35. 1991Two days after it had declared independence, Slovenia is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.Europe
36. 1994Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.Asia
37. 1995Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-71, the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.Europe
38. 2007Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. Chancellor Gordon Brown succeeds him.Europe
39. 2007The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.Latin America
40. 2008In a highly scrutinized 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.Africa
41. 2013NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space probe to observe the Sun.North America
42. 2014At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.Asia
43. 2015Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.Asia
44. 2017A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.Europe
45. 2024U.S. President Joe Biden debates former U.S. President Donald Trump. Biden's perceived poor performance leads to his withdrawal from the election on July 21.North America

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