TODAY IN HISTORY: JUNE 27

 

June 27

 

June 27th is the 178th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining (188 in leap years). It is also the last day of the second quarter of the fiscal year in many countries.

Historical events on June 27th

• 1305: The Battle of the Golden Spurs is fought between Flemish and French forces, resulting in a Flemish victory.
• 1405: The Treaty of Troyes is signed, ending the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War and making Henry V of England heir to the French throne.
• 1519: Charles V is elected Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1542: Portuguese explorer João Fernandes Lavrador sights the coast of Labrador.
• 1788: The First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay, Australia, marking the beginning of European settlement in Australia.
• 1844: Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, is killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
• 1862: American Civil War: Seven Days' Battles begin.
• 1898: Spanish–American War: Battle of San Juan Hill.
• 1900: The Boxer Rebellion begins in China.
• 1914: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, sparks World War I.
• 1918: The Battle of Belleau Wood begins during World War I, resulting in an American victory.
• 1941: Finland joins the Axis powers in World War II.
• 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
• 1950: The Korean War begins.
• 1953: The Korean War ends with the signing of an armistice agreement.
• 1960: Somalia gains independence from Italy.
• 1976: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
• 1980: The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) wins the first democratic elections in Zimbabwe.
• 1997: The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is signed.
• 2013: Edward Snowden leaks classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) to the press.

People born on June 27th

• 1462: Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
• 1805: Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
• 1833: James Whistler, American-born British painter (d. 1903)
• 1880: Helen Keller, American author, activist, and lecturer (d. 1968)
• 1894: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator (d. 1944)
• 1906: Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader (d. 1975)
• 1928: Billy Graham, American evangelist (d. 2018)
• 1933: Clive James, Australian author, broadcaster, and critic (d. 2019)
• 1941: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish filmmaker (d. 1996)
• 1959: Michael Mann, American film director and producer
• 1966: J. K. Rowling, British author
• 1967: Slash, British-American guitarist

Holidays and observances on June 27th

• International Day of the Tropics
• National HIV Testing Day (United States)
• National Tapioca Pudding Day (United States)
• Statehood Day (North Dakota)

Fun facts about June 27th

• June 27th is the day on which the first human heart transplant was performed in 1967.
• June 27th is the day on which the first episode of "The Simpsons" aired in 1989.
• June 27th is the day on which the first human genome was sequenced in 2000.
• June 27th is the day on which the first commercial flight of the Airbus A380 superjumbo jet took place in 2007.
• June 27th is the day on which the first

Here are more events from this day:

1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.

1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.

1499 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coast south of Cape Cassipore.

1556 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.

1743 – In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.

1760 – Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.

1806 – British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.

1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.

1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign.

1895 – The 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.

1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

1905 – During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.

1914 – The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.

1927 – Prime 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.

1928 – The Rovaniemi township decree was promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi seceded from the old rural municipality as its own market town on January 1, 1929.

1941 – Romanian 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.

1941 – World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.

1944 – World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese.

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.

1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.

1954 – The 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.

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 PFLP and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.

1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.

1980 – The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.

1981 – The 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.

1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.

1988 – The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.

1988 – Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.

1991 – Two days after it had declared independence, Slovenia is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.

1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

2007 – Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. His Chancellor, Gordon Brown succeeds him.

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 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.

2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.

2014 – At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

2015 – Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.

2017 – A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.