June 27: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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

Events

• 678 - Saint Agatho begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
• 1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain.
• 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
• 1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
• 1806 - The British capture Buenos Aires.
• 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr. is murdered along with his brother Hyrum in the jail in Carthage, Illinois.
• 1864 - Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the American Civil War.
• 1867 - The Bank of California opens its doors
• 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.
• 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.
• 1966 - The first broadcast of Dark Shadows aired on ABC-TV.
• 1967 - World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.
• 1972 - ATARI is established by Nolan Bushnell.
• 1974 - U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.
• 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.
• 1988 - 59 killed and 55 injured as runaway train in Gare de Lyon, France ploughs into packed rush-hour train.
• 1991 - Slovenia, after declaring independence two days previous, 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.
• 2005 - AMD files broad antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation in US Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.

• 1040 - King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
• 1462 - King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
• 1550 - King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
• 1696 - William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)
• 1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
• 1838 - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
• 1846 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish independence fighter (d. 1891)
• 1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (d. 1904)
• 1869 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist and feminist (d. 1940)
• 1869 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
• 1870 - Frank Rattray Lillie, American zoologist and embryologist (d. 1947)
• 1880 - Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
• 1882 - Eduard Spranger, German philosopher, psychologist, and educator (d. 1963)
• 1884 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
• 1913 - Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (d. 1993)
• 1924 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (d. 2003)
• 1924 - Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
• 1925 - Doc Pomus, American musician and composer (d. 1991)
• 1928 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
• 1930 - Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
• 1931 - Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist
• 1931 - Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 - Anna Moffo, American soprano
• 1941 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
• 1949 - Vera Wang, American fashion designer
• 1951 - Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
• 1955 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
• 1956 - Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
• 1958 - Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
• 1959 - Clint Boon, English musician (Inspiral Carpets)
• 1962 - Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
• 1963 - Meera Syal, English comedian, writer, singer, journalist, and actress
• 1964 - Chuck Person, basketball player
• 1966 - J.J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
• 1970 - Jim Edmonds, baseball player
• 1970 - Vitamin C, American singer
• 1975 - Tobey Maguire, American actor
• 1975 - Daryle Ward, baseball player
• 1977 - Raúl, Spanish footballer
• 1978 - Stefan Arason, Icelandic composer
• 1980 - Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
• 1983 - Alsou, Russian singer
• 1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
• 1986 - Drake Bell, American actor and musician
• 1988 - Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
• 1991 - Madylin Sweeten, American actress

• 1149 - Raymond of Antioch
• 1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
• 1458 - King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
• 1574 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
• 1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop, writer, and diplomat (b. 1539)
• 1627 - John Hayward, English historian
• 1655 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
• 1672 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (b. 1597)
• 1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
• 1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
• 1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
• 1829 - James Smithson, English founder of the Smithsonian Institute (b. 1765)
• 1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
• 1844 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (murdered) (b. 1800)
• 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr. American founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (murdered) (b. 1805)
• 1957 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (b. 1909)
• 1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
• 1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
• 1991 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (murdered) (b. 1953)
• 1999 - George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
• 2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
• 2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (b. 1925)
• 2002 - John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (b. 1944)
• 2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
• 2004 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
• 2005 - Marten Toonder, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1912)

• 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)

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