27 Juin

The **27t o Juin** is the 178t day o the year (179t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 187 days ti come.

## Events

*1358 &ndash; Republic o Dubrovnik is foondit.
*1844 &ndash; Joseph Smith, founder o the Mormon releegion, is killt bi a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
*1859 &ndash; The Great Cooncil o Basel agrees tae demolish maist o its ceety waw.
*1905 &ndash; Sailors stairt a mutiny on the Roushie battleship Potemkin.
*1950 &ndash; The Unitit States decides tae send troops tae Korea.
*1973 &ndash; The Preses o Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament an establishes a dictatorship.
*1977 &ndash; Fraunce grants unthirldom tae Djibouti.
*1979 &ndash; Muhammad Ali retires frae boxin.
*1984 &ndash; UEFA Euro 1984: Fraunce defeats Spain 2-0 in the feenal.
*1985 &ndash; The Unitit States' maist famous road, Route 66, loses the status o a highway.
*1988 &ndash; The Gare de Lyon rail accident kills 56 fowk.
*1991 &ndash; Slovenie is invadit bi Yugoslavie troops efter declarin unthirldom.
*2007 &ndash; Gordon Brown becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick, replacin Tony Blair.
*2008 &ndash; Robert Mugabe is controversially re-electit Preses o Zimbabwe.
*2010 &ndash; Germany knock Ingland oot o the 2010 FIFA Warld Cup, defeatin them 4-1 in Bloemfontein, Sooth Africae.
*2010 &ndash; Iceland legalises same-sex marriage.
*2013 &ndash; Kevin Rudd replaces Julia Gillard as Prime Meenister o Australie.
*2016 &ndash; Iceland defeats Ingland 2-1 in a surprise result at UEFA Euro 2016.
*2017 &ndash; First Meenister Nicola Sturgeon postpones plans for a seicont referendum on Scots unthirldom.
*2018 &ndash; Germany are knockit oot o the 2018 FIFA Warld Cup efter losin their feenal group gemme tae Sooth Korea, 2-0. It is their first early exit frae a FIFA Warld Cup syne 1938.
*2019 &ndash; Mette Frederiksen becomes Prime meenister o Denmark.
*2020 &ndash; Micheal Martin becomes Taoiseach o the Republic o Ireland as pairt o a first-ever coaleetion agreement atween Fianna Fail, Fine Gael an the Erse Green Pairty.
*2020 &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: Indie becomes the fowert kintra tae reach 500,000 recordit cases.

## Births

*1350 &ndash; Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1425)
*1462 &ndash; Louis XII o Fraunce (d. 1515)
*1550 &ndash; Charles IX o Fraunce (d. 1574)
*1842 &ndash; Jamie Anderson, Scots gowfer (d. 1905)
*1846 &ndash; Charles Stewart Parnell, Erse politeecian, foonder o the Erse Pairlamentar Pairty (d. 1891)
*1869 &ndash; Hans Spemann, German embryologist an academic (d. 1941)
*1869 &ndash; Emma Goldman, Lithuanie-American activist (d. 1940)
*1880 &ndash; Helen Keller, American author an educator (d. 1968)
*1930 &ndash; Ross Perot, American billionaire an politeecian (d. 2019)
*1931 &ndash; Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch theoretical pheesicist
*1940 &ndash; Ian Lang, Baron Lang o Monkton, Scots politeecian
*1949 &ndash; Vera Wang, American fashion designer
*1951 &ndash; Mary McAleese, umwhile Preses o the Republic o Ireland
*1955 &ndash; Isabelle Adjani, French actress
*1961 &ndash; Meera Syal, Inglis actress an writer
*1962 &ndash; Michael Ball, Inglis sangster an actor
*1962 &ndash; Ollanta Humala, umwhile Preses o Peru
*1963 &ndash; Wendy Alexander, Scots politeecian, umwhile leader o the Scots Labour Pairty
*1966 &ndash; J. J. Abrams, American actor an director
*1971 &ndash; Dipendra o Nepal (d. 2001)
*1975 &ndash; Tobey Maguire, American actor
*1976 &ndash; Raul Gonzalez, Spaingie fitbawer
*1979 &ndash; Maggie Chapman, Zimbabwe-born Scots politeecian (Scots Green Pairty)
*1983 &ndash; Alsou, Roushie sangster-sangwriter, pianist, an actress
*1983 &ndash; John Rankin, Scots fitbawer
*1984 &ndash; Gokhan Inler, Swiss fitbawer
*1985 &ndash; Svetlana Kuznetsova, Roushie tennis player
*1985 &ndash; Nico Rosberg, German racin driver

## Daiths
*1296 &ndash; Floris V, Coont o Holland (b. 1254)
*1574 &ndash; Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist, writer, airchitect an historian (b. 1511)
*1831 &ndash; Sophie Germain, French mathemateecian an pheesicist (b. 1776)
*1844 &ndash; Joseph Smith, American Mormon leader (b. 1805)
*1948 &ndash; Julian Robert Lindsey, American Major General (b. 1871)
*1991 &ndash; George MacLeod, Scots sodger an clergyman (b. 1895)
*2001 &ndash; Tove Jansson, Finnish writer an airtist (b. 1914)
*2001 &ndash; Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
*2005 &ndash; Shelby Foote, American historian an author (b. 1916)

## Halidays
*Unthirldom Day (Djibouti)
*Seven Sleepers Day (Germany)