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 Tevez 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 Napoleon 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 Regine 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 Raul, 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 Cleber Santana, Brazilian footballer (d. 2016)
1983 Alsou, Russian singer
1984 Jose Holebas, German-born Greek footballer
1984 Gokhan 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 Celia 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 Rios, 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 Helene 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