On this day in History - Jun. 27

• 0444 - Cyrillus van Alexandria dies. Patriarch of Alexandria.
• 0678 - Saint Agatho begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
• 1137 - Guigo de Castro, [Venerabilis] dies. 5th prior of Grande Chartreuse
• 1149 - Raymond of Poitiers dies (b. 1099). Prince of Antioch.
• 1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy dies (b. 1118)
• 1194 - Sancho VI of Navarre was born.
• 1458 - Alfonso V of Aragon dies (b. 1396)
• 1462 - King Louis XII of France was born (d. 1515).
• 1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain.
• 1550 - King Charles IX of France was born (d. 1574).
• 1574 - Giorgio Vasari, dies (b. 30 Jul 1511). Italian Mannerist writer and painter. ( The Prophet Elisha — The Holy Family with the Infant, St. John the Baptist — The Annonciation — Toeletta Venere)
• 1655 - Eleonore Gonzaga dies (b. 1598). Wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1660 - O poeta e escritor inglês John Milton, autor de "O Paraíso Perdido", é condenado à prisão pelo Parlamento britânico.
• 1682 - King Charles XII of Sweden was born (d. 1718) (June 17 in Swedish calendar)
• 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
• 1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
• 1787 - Edward Gibbon completed The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
• 1801 - O Cairo, capital do Egipto mameluco, rende-se às tropas britânicas que a cercam
• 1806 - The British capture Buenos Aires.
• 1829 - James Smithson dies. Founder of the Smithsonian Institute
• 1831 - Sophie Germain dies (b. 1776). Mathematician.
• 1838 - Paul von Mauser was born (d. 1914). Weapon designer.
• 1844 - Hyrum Smith dies (b. 1800). American religious leader.
• 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr. dies murdered with brother Hyrum in Carthage Jail, Carthage, Illinois(b. 1805). Founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1850 - Lafcadio Hearn was born (d. 1904). Author.
• 1850 - Ivan Vazov was born (d. 22 Sep 1921). Bulgarian poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke)
• 1864 - Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the American Civil War.
• 1867 - The Bank of California opens its doors.
• 1869 - Hans Spemann was born (d. 1941). Zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1935.
• 1869 - Emma Goldman was born (d. 1940). Anarchist, feminist, free love advocate.
• 1870 - Frank Rattray Lillie was born (d. 1947). Zoologist, embryologist.
• 1880 - Helen Keller was born (d. 1968). Spokeswoman for the deaf and blind.
• 1882 - Eduard Spranger was born (d. 1963). Philosopher, psychologist and educator.
• 1888 - Antoniette Perry was born. American actress.
• 1888 - Nascimento de Guilhermina Suggia. Violoncelista portuguesa.
• 1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1898 - First solo circumnavigation of the globe completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island Nova Scotia.
• 1905 - Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin.
• 1906 - Catherine Cookson was born (d. 1998). Author.
• 1908 - João Guimarães Rosa was born (d. 1967). Brazilian writer.
• 1910 - Porfirio Díaz é eleito pela sétima e última vez presidente do México.
• 1911 - Audrey Christieactress: Splendor in the Grass, Harper Valley P.T.A., Frankie and Johnny; died Dec 19, 1989
• 1913 - Willie Mosconi was born (d. 1993). Professional billiards player.
• 1914 - Bertha Suttner dies. Austrian writer, Nobel Prize for Peace in 1905
• 1925 - Jerome Felder, AKA Doc Pomus, was born (d. 1991). Musician, composer.
• 1928 - Rudy Perpich was born (d. 1995). American politician.
• 1927 - Otto Herbert Hajek was born. Sculptor.
• 1927 - Bob Keeshan was born (d. 23 Jan 2004). Children’s TV host: Captain Kangaroo children’s TV host ; Clarabelle on the "Howdy Doody Show". Clown Hall of Famer.
• 1930 - Ross Perot was born. American billionaire and politician
• 1931 - Charles Bronfman was born. Industrialist
• 1932 - Anna Moffo was born. American soprano.
• 1933 - José Fonseca e Costa was born in Caala, Angola. Portuguese film director [Some films: O Recado (1971), Kilas, o Mau da Fita (1981), Balada da Praia dos Cães (1987) A Mulher do Próximo (1988) Os Cornos de Cronos (1991), Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites (1996) Fascínio, O (2003) ]
• 1941 - Krzysztof Kieslowski was born in Warsaw (d. 13 Mar 1996). Film director.
• 1944 - Bruce Johnston was born. Grammy Award-winning song writer: I Write the Songs [1976]; musician: group: The Beach Boys
• 1944 - Zezé Motta was born. Brazilian singer and actress.
• 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.
• 1949 - Vera Wang was born. Fashion designer
• 1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
• 1952 - Elmo Lincoln dies. Actor.
• 1953 - Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1953 - Angelo Gonzalez was born. Argentine sculptor.
• 1954 - World's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• 1955 - Isabelle Adjani was born. French actress. Famous for films such as “Quartet” (1982) and “Camille Claudel” (1989), Adjani began her career at the age of 14 and achieved much success as a Molière actress. She was nominated “Best Actress of the 80s” and won four Cesars for her performances.
• 1957 - Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
• 1957 - Malcolm Lowry dies (b. 1909). Novelist.
• 1959 - West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein, closed after 732 performances on Broadway. The show remains one of the brightest highlights in the history of the Great White Way.
• 1959 - Clint Boon was born. Musician, keyboards in Inspiral Carpets
• 1959 - Trisha Yearwood was born. American singer (She's in Love With the Boy)
• 1960 - Lottie Dod dies. English athlete
• 1962 - Tony Leung Chiu Wai was born. Hong Kong actor
• 1963 - Meera Syal was born. Comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress
  1966 - J. J. Abrams was born. Television writer and producer
• 1967 - World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.
• 1969 - Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match
• 1970 - Daniel Kinsey dies (b. 1902). American hurdler.
• 1970 - Jim Edmonds was born. Baseball player
• 1970 - Vitamin C was born. Pop singer .
• 1970 - António de Oliveira Salazar dies in Lisbon (b. 28 Apr 1889). Portuguese ditator.
• 1972 - ATARI is established by Nolan Bushnell.
• 1973 - Heath Irwin was born. NFL guard
• 1973 - O presidente do Uruguai, Juan María Bordaberry, dá um golpe de Estado que acaba com 40 anos de governo constitucional. Ele dissolve o Congresso, declara ilegais os partidos e os sindicatos e implanta uma ditadura militar, que foi derrubada três anos depois.
• 1974 - U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.
• 1975 - Tobey Maguire was born. Actor.
• 1976 - An Air France jet carrying 256 passengers from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Paris, France, is hijacked by four Palestinian terrorists. Just minutes after taking off from Athens, Greece, where the plane had stopped to re-fuel, an armed gunman stormed the cockpit and forced the plane to fly to Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
• 1976 - Em Portugal, primeiras eleições, no último meio século, para a presidência da República, com a vitória de António Ramalho Eanes.
• 1977 - Raúl was born. Spanish football star
• 1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti.
• 1979 - Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing.
• 1980 - A commercial DC-9 (Itavia Flight 870) was apparently shot down.
• 1980 - Kevin Pietersen was born. English cricketer.
• 1981 - O Sporting Clube de Portugal vence a Taça das Taças de Hóquei em patins. A equipa era constituida por: João Oliveira, Fernandes, João Sobrinho, José Rosado, Salema, Chana, Carvalho, Carlos Alberto e o treinador era António Livramento.
• 1981 - Cambodia adopts its constitution Type: Event
• 1981 - Pamela Jenks, 21, crowned 14th Miss Black America
• 1982 - Em Madrid, realizou-se uma manifestação de cegos contra a proliferação de formas de jogo
• 1983 - Alsou was born. Russian singer.
• 1984 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau is awarded with the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
• 1984 - France wins soccer's European Cup.
• 1985 - Route 66 ceases to be an official highway.
• 1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova was born in St. Petersburg. Russian tennis player
• 1985 - Elias Sarkis dies (b. 20 Jun 1924). Polician and President of Lebanon.
• 1985 - Em Portugal, a Assembleia da República foi dissolvida pelo Presidente da República Ramalho Eanes.
• 1986 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the Nicaragua v. United States.
• 1988 - Mike Tyson quickly retained his undisputed world heavyweight title by knocking out Michael Spinks in the first round.
• 1988 - Fifty-seven people were killed in a train collision in Paris.
• 1989 - Alfred Julius Ayer dies (b. 29 Oct 1910). British philosopher.
• 1990 - Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims
• 1991 - Slovenia, which declared independent two days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft.
• 1991 - Madylin Sweeten was born. Actress.
• 1992 - Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship
• 1993 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett were wed in Marion, Ind. The marriage ended in divorce.
• 1993 - Luís de Sttau Monteiro dies. Portuguese writer.
• 1994 - Jeremy Brooks dies at 67. Writer.
• 1995 - Jodi Huisentruit, an anchorwoman in Mason City, Iowa disappears, presumably abducted.
• 1998 - Kerim Tekin dies. Turkish singer .
• 1999 - George Papadopoulos dies at 80. Greece's 1967-74 military dictator.
• 2000 - President Robert Mugabe's ruling party is assured a majority in Zimbabwe's new parliament despite historic gains by the opposition.
• 2001 - Jack Lemmon dies (b. 1925). Actor and film director.
• 2001 - Tove Jansson dies (b. 1914). Author of the Moomin books.
• 2001 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
• 2002 - John Entwistle dies (b. 1944). Bass player for The Who.
• 2004 - Darrell Russell dies (b. 1968). NHRA drag racer .
• 2004 - Serbia held elections. Pro-Western Boris Tadic led early polls over the ultranationalist candidate, Tomislav Nikolic. Boris Tadic, won 53.5 percent of votes.
• 2004 - George Patton IV dies (b. 1923). American general.
• 2005 - Shelby Foote dies (b. 1917). American author and historian of the The Civil War: A Narrative series
• Feast of St Cyril of Alexandria
• National HIV Testing Day in United States
• Stonewall Day (date of many gay pride celebrations, including those in New York City, San Francisco, Toronto, and Madrid)