June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 187 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
1358 – 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.
1743 – War of the Austrian Succession : Battle of Dettingen : On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
1759 – General James Wolfe begins the 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 – British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata .
1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr. , founder of the Latter Day Saint movement , and his brother Hyrum Smith , are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C. , to New York, New York , 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 .
1899 – A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out , the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
1905 – Battleship Potemkin uprising : sailors start a mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin , denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan 's plans for China ; later, a document detailing these plans, the "Tanaka Memorial " is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.
1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi , (Romania ), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
1941 – German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa .
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 .
1952 – Guatemala passes Decree 900 , ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant , the Soviet Union 's first nuclear power station , opens in Obninsk , near Moscow .
1954 – The 1954 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 .
1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".
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 PLO and redirected to Entebbe , Uganda .
1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti .
1980 – Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while en route from Bologna to Palermo , killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 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 .
1985 – U.S. Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System .
1988 – Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
1991 – Slovenia , after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War .
2007 – Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister , a position he had held since 1997.
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 scrutizined 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 .
Births
1040 – Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350 – Manuel II Palaiologos , Byzantine emperor (d. 1425)
1462 – Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
1550 – Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
1696 – William Pepperrell , American merchant and soldier (d. 1759)
1717 – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier , French botanist and physicist (d. 1799)
1767 – Alexis Bouvard , French astronomer (d. 1843)
1805 – Napoléon Coste , French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
1806 – Augustus De Morgan , English mathematician and logician (d. 1871)
1817 – Louise von François , German author (d. 1893)
1838 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay , Indian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1894)
1838 – Paul Mauser , German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (d. 1914)
1846 – Charles Stewart Parnell , Irish politician (d. 1891)
1850 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram , Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
1850 – Lafcadio Hearn , Greek-Japanese author (d. 1904)
1862 – May Irwin , Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1938)
1865 – John Monash , Australian engineer and general (d. 1931)
1869 – Kate Carew , American illustrator and journalist (d. 1961)
1869 – Emma Goldman , Lithuanian philosopher and activist (d. 1940)
1869 – Hans Spemann , German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1870 – Frank Rattray Lillie , American zoologist and embryologist (d. 1947)
1872 – Heber Doust Curtis , American astronomer (d. 1942)
1872 – Paul Laurence Dunbar , American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1906)
1880 – Natalia Brasova , Russian wife of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1952)
1880 – Helen Keller , American author and activist (d. 1968)
1882 – Eduard Spranger , German philosopher and educator (d. 1963)
1884 – Gaston Bachelard , French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
1885 – Pierre Montet , French Egyptologist (d. 1966)
1885 – Guilhermina Suggia , Portuguese cellist (d. 1950)
1886 – Charlie Macartney , Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1958)
1888 – Lewis Bernstein Namier , Polish-English historian and academic (d. 1960)
1888 – Antoinette Perry , American actress and director (d. 1946)
1892 – Paul Colin , French illustrator (d. 1985)
1899 – Juan Trippe , American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (d. 1981)
1901 – Merle Tuve , American geophysicist (d. 1982)
1905 – Armand Mondou , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1906 – Catherine Cookson , English author (d. 1998)
1906 – Vernon Watkins , Welsh-American poet and painter (d. 1967)
1907 – John McIntire , American actor (d. 1991)
1908 – João Guimarães Rosa , Brazilian physician and author (d. 1967)
1908 – Gene Venzke , American runner (d. 1992)
1909 – Billy Curtis , American actor (d. 1988)
1913 – Elton Britt , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972)
1913 – Philip Guston , American painter (d. 1980)
1913 – Willie Mosconi , American pool player (d. 1993)
1914 – Robert Aickman , English author (d. 1981)
1914 – Giorgio Almirante , Italian journalist and politician (d. 1988)
1915 – Grace Lee Boggs , American author and activist
1915 – John Alexander Moore , American zoology professor
1921 – Muriel Pavlow , English actress
1923 – Jacques Berthier , French organist and composer (d. 1994)
1923 – Beth Chatto , English gardener
1923 – Elmo Hope , American pianist and composer (d. 1967)
1924 – Rosalie Allen , American singer (d. 2003)
1925 – Leonard Lerman , American geneticist and biologist (d. 2012)
1925 – Doc Pomus , American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
1928 – James Lincoln Collier , American journalist and author
1928 – Rudy Perpich , American dentist and politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (d. 1995)
1929 – Peter Maas , American journalist and author (d. 2001)
1930 – Tommy Kono , American weightlifter
1930 – Ross Perot , American businessman and politician
1931 – Charles Bronfman , Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist
1931 – Martinus J. G. Veltman , Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Eddie Kasko , American baseball player and manager
1932 – Anna Moffo , American soprano and actress (d. 2006)
1932 – Magali Noël , French actress and singer
1932 – Hugh Wood , English composer
1935 – Laurent Terzieff , French actor (d. 2010)
1935 – Ramon Zamora , Filipino actor and director (d. 2007)
1936 – Lucille Clifton , American author and poet (d. 2010)
1937 – Joseph P. Allen , American physicist and astronaut
1937 – Otto Herrigel , Namibian lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1937 – Kirkpatrick Sale , American author and scholar
1938 – Bruce Babbitt , American lawyer and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior
1938 – Kathryn Beaumont , English actress and singer
1938 – Shirley Anne Field , English actress
1938 – Yevgeniy Ivchenko , Ukrainian race walker (d. 1999)
1938 – Konrad Kujau , German illustrator (d. 2000)
1939 – R. D. Burman , Indian singer-songwriter (d. 1994)
1940 – Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton , Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
1941 – James P. Hogan , English author (d. 2010)
1941 – Krzysztof Kieślowski , Polish director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1942 – Bruce Johnston , American singer-songwriter and producer (The Beach Boys and Bruce & Terry )
1942 – Frank Mills , Canadian pianist and composer
1942 – Jérôme Savary , Argentinian-French actor and director (d. 2013)
1942 – Danny Schechter , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1943 – Raveendra 'Ravi' Batra , Indian-American economist
1943 – Kjersti Døvigen , Norwegian-English actress
1943 – Rico Petrocelli , American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
1944 – Patrick Sercu , Belgian cyclist
1945 – Joey Covington , American drummer (Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna ) (d. 2013)
1948 – Camile Baudoin , American guitarist (The Radiators )
1949 – Vera Wang , American figure skater and fashion designer
1951 – Julia Duffy , American actress
1951 – Mary McAleese , Irish politician, 8th President of Ireland
1952 – Madan Bhandari , Nepalese politician (d. 1993)
1953 – Igor Gräzin , Estonian academic and politician
1953 – Alice McDermott , American author and academic
1954 – Richard Ibbotson , English admiral
1955 – Isabelle Adjani , French actress and singer
1956 – Heiner Dopp , German field hockey player and politician
1956 – Scott Cunningham , American author (d. 1993)
1956 – Ted Haggard , American pastor, founded the Association of Life-Giving Churches
1957 – John Bolaris , American meteorologist
1957 – Gabriella Dorio , Italian runner
1958 – Magnus Lindberg , Finnish pianist and composer
1959 – Dan Jurgens , American author and illustrator
1959 – Lorrie Morgan , American singer
1960 – Craig Hodges , American basketball player and coach
1960 – Robert King , English harpsichord player and conductor
1961 – Meera Syal , English actress, singer, and producer
1962 – Michael Ball , Welsh actor and singer
1962 – Tony Leung Chiu-Wai , Hong Kong actor and singer
1962 – Sunanda Pushkar , Indian-Canadian businesswoman (d. 2014)
1963 – Wendy Alexander , Scottish politician
1963 – Johnny Benson, Jr. , American race car driver
1963 – Inva Mula , Albanian opera lyric soprano
1963 – Igor Kusin , Croatian linguist and author
1964 – Stephan Brenninkmeijer , Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – Chuck Person , American basketball player and coach
1965 – Simon Sebag Montefiore , English journalist, historian, and author
1965 – Óscar Vega , Spanish boxer
1966 – J. J. Abrams , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Jörg Bergen , German footballer and manager
1967 – Sylvie Fréchette , Canadian swimmer
1967 – Vasiliy Kaptyukh , Belarusian discus thrower
1968 – Kelly Ayotte , American lawyer and politician
1968 – Pascale Bussières , Canadian actress
1969 – Viktor Petrenko , Ukrainian figure skater
1969 – Draco Rosa , American-Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and producer (Menudo and Maggie's Dream )
1970 – Ahmed Ahmed , Egyptian-American actor and screenwriter
1970 – Régine Cavagnoud , French skier
1970 – John Eales , Australian rugby player
1970 – Jim Edmonds , American baseball player and sportscaster
1971 – Yancey Arias , American actor and producer
1971 – Kieren Keke , Nauruan physician and politician
1972 – Dawud Wharnsby , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1973 – George Hincapie , American cyclist
1974 – Christian Kane , American singer-songwriter and actor
1974 – Christopher O'Neill , English-American businessman
1975 – Sarah Evanetz , Canadian swimmer
1975 – Heli Koivula Kruger , Finnish jumper
1975 – Tobey Maguire , American actor and producer
1976 – Leigh Nash , American singer-songwriter (Sixpence None the Richer )
1977 – Raúl , Spanish footballer
1977 – Arkadiusz Radomski , Polish footballer
1978 – Courtney Ford , American actress
1979 – Kim Gyu-ri , South Korean actress
1979 – Benjamin Speed , Australian singer-songwriter and producer
1979 – John Warne , American bass player (Relient K and Ace Troubleshooter )
1980 – Hugo Campagnaro , Argentinian footballer
1980 – Kevin Pietersen , South African-English cricketer
1980 – Craig Terrill , American football player
1983 – Alsou Abramova , Russian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
1983 – Jim Johnson , American baseball player
1983 – Dale Steyn , South African cricketer
1983 – Evan Taubenfeld , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1984 – José Holebas , German-Greek footballer
1984 – Gökhan Inler , Swiss footballer
1984 – Khloé Kardashian , American businesswoman, model, and radio host
1984 – D.J. King , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Emma Lahana , New Zealand actress
1984 – Julie Ordon , Swiss model and actress
1985 – James Hook , Welsh rugby player
1985 – Svetlana Kuznetsova , Russian tennis player
1985 – Nico Rosberg , German race car driver
1986 – Drake Bell , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1986 – Evgeniya Belyakova , Russian basketball player
1986 – Sam Claflin , English actor
1986 – LaShawn Merritt , American sprinter
1986 – Sean Plott , American gamer
1987 – Ed Westwick , English actor
1988 – Stefani Bismpikou , Greek gymnast
1988 – Matthew Spiranovic , Australian footballer
1988 – Kate Ziegler , American swimmer
1989 – Hana Birnerová , Czech tennis player
1989 – Bruna Tenório , Brazilian model
1990 – Aselin Debison , Canadian singer
1990 – Taylor Phinney , American cyclist
1992 – Sohee , South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Wonder Girls )
1993 – Johanna Talihärm , Estonian biathlete
1996 – Tanay Chheda , Indian actor and author
Deaths
1162 – Odo II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1458 – Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
1574 – Giorgio Vasari , Italian historian, painter, and architect (b. 1511)
1603 – Jan Dymitr Solikowski , Polish archbishop (b. 1539)
1627 – John Hayward , English historian, journalist, and politician (b. 1564)
1636 – Date Masamune , Japanese strongman (b. 1567)
1655 – Eleonore Gonzaga , Roman wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
1672 – Roger Twysden , English historian and politician (b. 1597)
1720 – Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu , French poet (b. 1639)
1773 – Mentewab , Ethiopian wife of Bakaffa (b. 1706)
1794 – Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (b. 1711)
1794 – Anne d'Arpajon , French noblewoman (b. 1729)
1794 – Philippe de Noailles , French general (b. 1715)
1827 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn , German theologian and academic (b. 1754)
1829 – James Smithson , English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1765)
1831 – Sophie Germain , French mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
1839 – Ranjit Singh , Founder of the Sikh Empire (b. 1780)
1844 – Hyrum Smith , American religious leader (b. 1800)
1844 – Joseph Smith , American religious leader, founded the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1805)
1878 – Sidney Breese , American jurist and politician (b. 1800)
1896 – John Berryman , English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1825)
1905 – Harold Mahony , Scottish-Irish tennis player (b. 1867)
1907 – Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz , American educator, co-founded Radcliffe College (b. 1822)
1912 – George Bonnor , Australian cricketer (b. 1855)
1917 – Karl Allmenröder , German soldier and pilot (b. 1896)
1919 – Peter Sturholdt , American boxer (b. 1885)
1920 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier , Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1839)
1934 – Francesco Buhagiar , Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1876)
1935 – Eugene Augustin Lauste , French-American inventor (b. 1857)
1944 – Milan Hodža , Czech politician, 10th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1878)
1946 – Wanda Gág , American author and illustrator (b. 1893)
1949 – Frank Smythe , English botanist and mountaineer (b. 1900)
1952 – Max Dehn , German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1878)
1957 – Hermann Buhl , Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924)
1958 – Ragna Wettergreen , Norwegian actress (b. 1864)
1960 – Lottie Dod , English tennis player (b. 1871)
1967 – Jaan Lattik , Estonian politician, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (b. 1878)
1970 – Daniel Kinsey , American hurdler and scholar (b. 1902)
1986 – George Nepia , New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1987 – Billy Snedden , Australian politician (b. 1926)
1989 – A. J. Ayer , English philosopher (b. 1910)
1991 – Klaas Bruinsma , Dutch drug lord (b. 1953)
1994 – Tai Solarin , Nigerian educator and activist (b. 1922)
1996 – Albert R. Broccoli , American film producer (b. 1909)
1998 – Gilles Rocheleau , Canadian politician (b. 1935)
1999 – Georgios Papadopoulos , Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
2000 – Pierre Pflimlin , French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
2001 – Tove Jansson , Finnish author (b. 1914)
2001 – Jack Lemmon , American actor (b. 1925)
2002 – John Entwistle , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Who ) (b. 1944)
2003 – David Newman , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2004 – George Patton IV , American general (b. 1923)
2005 – Shelby Foote , American historian and author (b. 1917)
2005 – Frank Harte , Irish singer (b. 1933)
2005 – Domino Harvey , English-American bounty hunter (b. 1969)
2005 – John T. Walton , American businessman, co-founded the Children's Scholarship Fund (b. 1946)
2006 – Ángel Maturino Reséndiz , Mexican serial killer (b. 1959)
2007 – Patrick Allotey , Ghanaian footballer (b. 1978)
2007 – Dragutin Tadijanović , Croatian poet (b. 1905)
2008 – Sam Manekshaw , Indian field marshal (b. 1914)
2008 – Michael Turner , American illustrator (b. 1971)
2009 – Gale Storm , American actress and singer (b. 1922)
2011 – Mike Doyle , English footballer (b. 1946)
2012 – Don Grady , American actor and composer (b. 1944)
2012 – Iurie Miterev , Moldovan footballer (b. 1975)
2013 – Stefano Borgonovo , Italian footballer (b. 1964)
2013 – Alain Mimoun , French runner (b. 1921)
2014 – Leslie Manigat , Haitian educator and politician, 43rd President of Haiti (b. 1930)
2014 – Rachid Solh , Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926)
2014 – Bobby Womack , American singer-songwriter (The Valentinos ) (b. 1944)
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