June 27



Events

Up to 1900 
678  Pope Agatho is elected.
1358  The 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.
1709  Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1715  In a war with Venice, 40,000 Ottoman soldiers land in the Peloponnese, present-day Greece.
1743  War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen - on the battlefield in Bavaria, King George II of Great Britain leads his troops into battle. It is the last time that a British monarch would command troops  on the field.
1759  General James Wolfe starts 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  The British capture Buenos Aires.
1844  Joseph Smith, Jr and his brother Hyrum murdered in Carthage Jail, 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.
1899  A. E. J. Collins scores 628 not-out, a record score in cricket.

1901  2000 
1905  Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin.
1927  Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China.
1941  Romanian government forces, supporting Nazi Germany, launch a violent pogrom against the Jewish population of the city of Iasi, Romania; 13,266 are subsequently murdered.
1945  Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard sends memo to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson urging that the United States give "preliminary warning" to Japan before using the atomic bomb on a Japanese target.
1946  The Parliament of Canada establishes the definition (meaning) of Canadian citizenship.
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.
1954  Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz is removed from power with US assistance.
1957  Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
1963  John F. Kennedy visits his ancestral home in County Wexford, Republic of Ireland.
1966  The military seizes power in Argentina.
1967  World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.
1972  ATARI is established by Nolan Bushnell.
1973  President of Uruguay Juan Maria Bordaberry dissolves parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
1974  US President Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.
1976  Air France Flight 139 is captured by Palestinian militants and diverted to Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
1977  France grants independence to Djibouti.
1977  Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) becomes a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
1979  Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing.
1980  A commercial DC-9 (Itavia Flight 870) is apparently shot down.
1982  Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
1984  Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
1984  UEFA Euro 1984: France defeats Spain 2-0 to win the tournament.
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  In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Mike Tyson becomes Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World, defeating Michael Spinks.
1991  Slovenia, which declared independent two days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft.
1995  Jodi Huisentruit, an anchorwoman in Mason City, Iowa disappears, presumably abducted.
1998  130 people are killed in an earthquake in southwestern Turkey.

From 2001 
2001  International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
2006  2006 FIFA World Cup: Brazil's Ronaldo becomes the highest goalscorer in FIFA World Cup history, with 15 goals.
2007  Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Tony Blair.
2008  In a highly scrutinised election, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe claims a landslide victory, after opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn, citing violence against MDC supporters.
2010  Iceland legalizes same-sex marriage.
2010  2010 FIFA World Cup: Two controversial decisions in Second Round matches prompt discussions about technology in football. Frank Lampard's goal for England against Germany is not given despite crossing the line, and an offside goal by Argentina's Carlos Tévez against Mexico is given.
2013  Kevin Rudd becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a second time, replacing Julia Gillard.
2013  NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
2014  Jean-Claude Juncker is chosen to become President of the European Commission.
2016  UEFA Euro 2016: Iceland defeats England 2-1 in a surprise result in the second round of the tournament.
2017  Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon delays a plan for a second independence referendum.
2017  A vote in the German Bundestag on same-sex marriage is set for June 30 after Chancellor Angela Merkel changes her official position on the issue.
2017  Armin Laschet takes over from Hannelore Kraft as Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most-populous state.
2017  A second Ransomware cyber attack in just over six weeks affects the world's computers, with Russia, Poland and Ukraine among the most-affected countries. 
2018  2018 FIFA World Cup: Germany is knocked out of the FIFA World Cup at the first stage for the first time in 80 years, after a 2-0 defeat to South Korea; it is the fourth time in five FIFA World Cups that the previous champion goes out at the group stage.
2018  United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announces his retirement.

Births

Up to 1900 
1040  King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350  Manuel II Palaiologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1425)
1462  King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
1550  King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
1682  King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718) (June 17 in Swedish calendar)
1717  Louis Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
1740  John Latham, English physician, naturalist and author (d. 1837)
1805  Napoléon Coste, French composer and guitarist (d. 1883)
1806  Augustus De Morgan, English mathematician (d. 1871)
1821  August Conradi, German organist and composer (d. 1873)
1821  Samuel Washington Woodhouse, American surgeon, explorer and naturalist (d. 1904)
1828  Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (d. 1905)
1838  Paul Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
1838  Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author and poet (d. 1894)
1838  Eugenia Washington, American historian (d. 1900)
1839  George Mary Searle, American astronomer and clergyman (d. 1918)
1840  Ingram Bywater, British classical philologist (d. 1914)
1846  Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist political leader (d. 1891)
1850  Lafcadio Hearn, writer (d. 1904)
1869  Hans Spemann, German doctor and zoologist, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
1869  Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-American anarchist, feminist, free love advocate (d. 1940)
1870  Frank Rattray Lillie, zoologist, embryologist (d. 1947)
1880  Helen Keller, American writer and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
1882  Eduard Spranger, philosopher, psychologist and educator (d. 1963)
1884  Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
1885  Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (d. 1950)
1885  Pierre Montet, French Egyptologist (d. 1966)
1888  Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (d. 1946)
1890  Roberto Urdaneta, 44th President of Colombia (d. 1972)
1891  Vladimir Petlyakov, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1942)
1892  Paul Colin, French illustrator (d. 1985)
1893  Ivan Belov, Soviet military (d. 1938)
1899  Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)

1901  1950 
1904  Alberta Vaughn, American actress (d. 1992)
1905  Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1906  Catherine Cookson, British writer (d. 1998)
1906  Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet (d. 1967)
1907  John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
1908  Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)
1909  Billy Curtis, American actor (d. 1988)
1910  Pierre Joubert, French artist (d. 2002)
1913  Willie Mosconi, professional billiards player (d. 1993)
1914  Robert Aickman, English writer (d. 1981)
1914  Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1988)
1915  Grace Lee Boggs, American writer, activist and feminist (d. 2015)
1918  Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (d. 2017)
1921  Muriel Pavlow, English actress
1925  Michael Dummett, English philosopher (d. 2011)
1925  Jerome Felder, AKA Doc Pomus, American musician, composer (d. 1991)
1927  Otto Herbert Hajek, German sculptor (d. 2005)
1928  Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1930  Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician (d. 2019)
1930  Tommy Kono, American weightlifter (d. 2016)
1931  Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist
1931  Magali Noel, French actress and singer (d. 2015)
1932  Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
1934  Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian writer, poet and journalist (d. 2013)
1935  Laurent Terzieff, French actor (d. 2010)
1938  Bruce Babbitt, American politician
1938  Yevgeniy Ivchenko, Soviet race walker
1940  Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, Scottish politician
1941  Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish movie director (d. 1996)
1942  Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1942  Danny Schechter, American television producer, moviemaker, blogger and media critic (d. 2015)
1949  Rafael Chirbes, Spanish writer (d. 2015)
1949  Vera Wang, American fashion designer

1951  1975 
1951  Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland
1951  Julia Duffy, American actress
1951  Ulf Andersson, Swedish chess player
1952  Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d. 1993)
1952  Mary Rosenblum, American author (d. 2018)
1955  Isabelle Adjani, French actress
1956  Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince and astronaut
1957  Gabriella Dorio, Italian middle-distance runner
1958  Lisa Germano, American musician
1958  Magnus Lindberg, Finnish pianist and composer
1959  Clint Boon, musician best known for playing keyboards in the band Inspiral Carpets
1960  David Cholmondeley, British aristocrat
1960  Craig Hodges, American basketball player
1961  Tim Whitnall, British voice actor
1961  Meera Syal, British actress, comedienne and writer
1962  Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
1962  Michael Ball, British singer and actor
1962  Carrie Gracie, British journalist and news presenter, former BBC News China editor
1962  Sunanda Pushkar, Indian-Canadian businesswoman (d. 2014)
1962  Ollanta Humala, 94th President of Peru
1963  Wendy Alexander, Scottish politician
1963  Jay Karnes, American actor
1964  Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch director, producer and screenwriter
1964  Chuck Person, American basketball player and coach
1964  Taimak, American martial arts actor and stuntman
1965  Simon Sebag Montefiore, English journalist, historian and author
1965  Ange Postecoglou, Australian footballer and coach
1966  J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
1966  Aigars Kalvitis, former Prime Minister of Latvia
1969  Alessandro Esseno, Italian composer and pianist
1969  Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater
1970  John Eales, Australian rugby player
1970  Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
1970  Vitamin C, pop singer
1971  Jo Frost, English nanny and television personality
1971  Dipendra of Nepal (d. 2001)
1971  Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (d. 2001)
1972  Dmytro Tymchuk, Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger (d. 2019)
1974  Christian Kane, American actor and singer
1974  Christopher O'Neill, British-American businessman and husband of Princess Madeleine of Sweden
1975  Tobey Maguire, American actor

From 1976 
1976  Nekima Levy-Pounds, American lawyer, professor, activist and writer
1977  Raúl, Spanish footballer
1977  Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
1978  Anna Kumble, British singer
1978  Courtney Ford, American actress
1978  Marc Terenzi, American singer
1979  Fabrizio Miccoli, Italian footballer
1980  Kevin Pietersen, South African-born English cricketer
1980  Takahiro Futagawa, Japanese footballer
1981  Andrew Embley, Australian footballer
1981  Cléber Santana, Brazilian footballer (d. 2016)
1983  Alsou, Russian singer
1984  José Holebas, German-born Greek footballer
1984  Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer
1984  Khloe Kardashian, American reality television personality
1985  Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
1985  James Hook, Welsh rugby player
1985  Nico Rosberg, Finnish-German racing driver
1986  LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
1986  Sam Claflin, English actor
1987  Ed Westwick, English actor
1988  Célia Sasic, German footballer
1988  Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer
1988  Alanna Masterton, American actress
1989  Matthew Lewis, English actor
1990  Taylor Phinney, American cyclist
1991  Madylin Sweeten, American actress
1992  Sohee, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
1999  Chandler Riggs, American actor

Deaths

Up to 1900 
363  Emperor Julian (b. 313)
1149  Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch (b. 1099)
1458  Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
1462  Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1497  Michael An Gof, Cornish rebel
1497  Thomas Flamank, Cornish rebel
1574  Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist (b. 1511)
1648  Arngrimur Jonsson, Icelandic academic (b. 1568)
1655  Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
1794  Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1794  Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French nobleman (b. 1715)
1794  Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (b. 1729)
1823  Pierre Antoine Delalande, French explorer and naturalist (b. 1787)
1829  James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute
1831  Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1839  Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (b. 1780)
1844  Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
1844  Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
1852  Lemuel H. Arnold, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1792)
1878  Sarah Helen Whitman, American poet (b. 1803)

1901  2000 
1907  Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1916  Stefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1917  Karl Allmenroder, German World War I ace (b. 1896)
1934  Francesco Buhagiar, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1876)
1935  Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1944  Milan Hodza, Slovakian politician (b. 1878)
1946  Juan Antonio Ríos, President of Chile (b. 1888)
1952  Elmo Lincoln, actor (b. 1889)
1957  Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924)
1957  Malcolm Lowry, novelist (b. 1909)
1959  Giovanni Pastrone, Italian filmmaker (b. 1883)
1960  Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1961  Hélène Dutrieu, French pilot (b. 1877)
1970  Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1986  George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1989  Alfred Jules Ayer, British philosopher (b. 1910)
1991  Molly Geertsema, Dutch politician (b. 1918)
1996  Albert R. Broccoli, American movie producer (b. 1909)
1998  Kerim Tekin, Turkish singer
1999  Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek military leader (b. 1919)
2000  Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)

From 2001 
2001  Jack Lemmon, American actor and movie director (b. 1925)
2001  Tove Jansson, Finnish writer of the Moomin books (b. 1914)
2002  John Entwistle, English musician, bass player for The Who (b. 1944)
2003  David Newman, American director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2004  Darrell Russell, NHRA drag racer (b. 1968)
2004  Fred Ramdat Misier, President of Suriname (b. 1926)
2005  Shelby Foote, American historian and author (b. 1917)
2007  Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2011  Elaine Stewart, American actress (b. 1930)
2013  Alain Mimoun, French runner (b. 1921)
2013  Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer (b. 1964)
2014  Leslie Manigat, 43rd President of Haiti (b. 1930)
2014  Bobby Womack, American musician (b. 1944)
2014  Rachid Solh, Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926)
2014  Rex Whitehead, Australian cricket umpire (b. 1948)
2014  Tymon Mabaleka, Zimbabwean footballer and music producer (b. 1950)
2015  Chris Squire, English bass guitarist (Yes) (b. 1948)
2015  Zvi Elpeleg, Polish-Israeli diplomat (b. 1926)
2016  Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer and actor (b. 1929)
2016  Simon Ramo, American engineer, business leader and author (b. 1913)
2016  Alvin Toffler, American writer and futurist (b. 1928)
2016  Elmer Cravalho, American politician (b. 1926)
2016  Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (b. 1932)
2016  Harry Halbreich, Belgian musicologist (b. 1931)
2016  Mack Rice, American songwriter and singer (b. 1933)
2017  Geri Allen, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1957)
2017  Piotr Bikont, Polish journalist, critic and author (b. 1955)
2017  Michael Bond, English author (Paddington Bear) (b. 1926)
2017  Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (b. 1960)
2017  Suh Yun-bok, South Korean athlete (b. 1923)
2017  Ric Suggitt, Canadian rugby coach (b. 1958)
2017  Peter L. Berger, Austrian-American sociologist (b. 1929)
2017  Anthony Young, American baseball player (b. 1966)
2017  Toytown, English eventing horse (b. 1992)
2017  Better Talk Now, American racehorse (b. 1999)
2018  Harlan Ellison, American science fiction writer (b. 1934)
2018  Joe Jackson, American talent manager, patriarch of the Jackson family (b. 1928)
2018  Steve Soto, American punk guitarist (b. 1963)
2018  Vladimir Andreyevich Uspensky, Russian mathematician and writer (b. 1930)
2018  Paola Paternoster, Italian discus and javelin thrower (b. 1935)
2018  Steven Hilliard Stern, Canadian-American director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2018  Steve Ditko, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1927)
2019  Gualberto Castro, Mexican singer, actor and television personality (b. 1934)
2019  David Golomb, Israeli politician (b. 1933)
2019  Justin Raimondo, American author (b. 1951)

Observances 
 Independence Day in Djibouti
 Canadian Multiculturalism Day
 Seven Sleepers Day in Germany (According to legend, the weather on this date is supposed to be the same as in the rest of the Summer)
 National Unity Day (Tajikistan)
 Mixed Race Day (Brazil)

Days of the year