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.
• 0862 – Hindu saint Manikkavacakar.
• 1040 - King Ladislaus I of Hungary was born (d. 1095).
• 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.
• 1350 - Manuel II Palaiologos was born. Eastern Roman Emperor.
• 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is founded.
• 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).
• 1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski dies (b. 1539). Polish archbishop, writer, and diplomat.
• 1627 - John Hayward dies (b. c. 1560). English historian.
• 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.
• 1672 - Roger Twysden dies (b. 1579). English antiquarian.
• 1682 - King Charles XII of Sweden was born (d. 1718) (June 17 in Swedish calendar).
• 1696 - William Pepperrell was born (d. 1759). British colonial soldier.
• 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
• 1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier was born (d. 1799). French botanist.
• 1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu dies (b. 1639). French poet.
• 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 starts siege of Quebec.
• 1773 - Mentewab dies (b. circa 1706). Empress of Ethiopia.
• 1787 - Edward Gibbon completed The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
• 1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz dies (b. 1711). Austrian statesman.
• 1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy dies (b. 1715). French soldier.
• 1801 - O Cairo, capital do Egipto mameluco, rende-se às tropas britânicas que a cercam
• 1806 - The British capture Buenos Aires during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
• 1827 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn dies (b. 1754). German theologian.
• 1829 - James Smithson dies (b. 1765). English scientist and philanthropist, founder of the Smithsonian Institute.
• 1831 - Sophie Germain dies (b. 1776). French mathematician.
• 1838 - Paul von Mauser was born (d. 1914). German 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.
• 1846 - Charles Stewart Parnell was born (d. 1891). Irish independence fighter.
• 1850 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram was born (d. 1919). Danish mathematician.
• 1850 - Lafcadio Hearn was born (d. 1904). Greek-born 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 is created.
• 1869 – Emma Goldman was born (d. 1940). Lithuanian/American anarchist and feminist.
• 1869 - Hans Spemann was born (d. 1941). German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1935.
• 1869 – Kate Carew was born (d. 1961). American caricaturist.
• 1870 - Frank Rattray Lillie was born (d. 1947). Zoologist, embryologist.
• 1880 - Helen Keller was born (d. 1968). American deaf and blind activist.
• 1882 - Eduard Spranger was born (d. 1963). German philosopher, psychologist and educator.
• 1884 - Gaston Bachelard was born (d. 1962). French philosopher and poet.
• 1885 - Guilhermina Suggia was born (d. 1950). Portuguese cellist.
• 1888 - Antoinette Perry was born (d. 1946). American theater director.
• 1888 - Lewis Bernstein Namier was born (d. 1960). English historian.
• 1892 - Paul Colin was born (d. 1985). French poster designer.
• 1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1898 - The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• 1899 - Juan Trippe was born (d. 1981). American airline entrepreneur.
• 1905 - (June 14 according to the Julian calendar): Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
• 1905 - Armand Mondou was born (d. 1976). French Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1906 - Catherine Cookson was born (d. 1998). Author.
• 1907 - John McIntire was born (d. 1991). American actor.
• 1907 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz dies (b. 1822). American educator.
• 1908 - João Guimarães Rosa was born (d. 1967). Brazilian writer.
• 1910 - Porfirio Díaz is elected, for the seventh time, President of Mexico.
• 1911 - Audrey Christie was born (d. 19 Dec 1989). American actress: Splendor in the Grass, Harper Valley P.T.A., Frankie and Johnny.
• 1912 - George Bonnor dies (b. 1855). Australian cricketer.
• 1913 - Willie Mosconi was born (d. 1993). Professional billiards player.
• 1914 – Giorgio Almirante was born (d. 1988). Italian politician.
• 1914 - Robert Aickman was born (d. 1981). English author.
• 1914 - Bertha Suttner dies. Austrian writer, Nobel Prize for Peace in 1905.
• 1917 - Karl Allmenroder dies (b. 1896). German World War I Ace.
• 1920 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier dies (b. 1839). French Canadien lyricist (O Canada).
• 1921 - Muriel Pavlow was born. British actress.
• 1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane.
• 1923 - Jacques Berthier was born (d. 1994). French composer.
• 1924 – Bob Appleyard was born. English cricketer.
• 1924 - Rosalie Allen was born (d. 2003). American singer and disc jockey.
• 1925 - Jerome Felder, AKA Doc Pomus, was born (d. 1991). Musician, composer.
• 1927 - Otto Herbert Hajek was born. Sculptor.
• 1927 - Bob Keeshan was born (d. 23 Jan 2004). American children’s TV host: Captain Kangaroo children’s TV host; Clarabelle on the "Howdy Doody Show". Clown Hall of Famer.
• 1928 - Rudy Perpich was born (d. 1995). American politician.
• 1929 - William Afflis was born (d. 1991). American wrestler.
• 1930 - Ross Perot was born. American businessman and politician.
• 1931 - Charles Bronfman was born. Canadian industrialist.
• 1931 - Martinus J. G. Veltman was born. Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1932 - Anna Moffo was born (d. 2006). American soprano.
• 1932 - Eddie Kasko was born. American baseball player.
• 1932 - Magali Noël was born. French actress.
• 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)].
• 1935 - Laurent Terzieff was born. French actor.
• 1935 – Ramon Zamora was born (d. 2007). Filipino martial arts actor.
• 1935 - Eugene Augustin Lauste dies (b. 1857). French inventor.
• 1935 - Ramon Zamora was born (d. 2007). Filipino martial arts actor.
• 1936 - Lucille Clifton was born. American poet.
• 1938 – Bruce Babbitt was born. American politician and Secretary of the Interior
• 1938 - Kathryn Beaumont was born. British voice actress.
• 1938 - Shirley Anne Field was born. British actress.
• 1938 – Tommy Cannon was born. British comedian.
• 1939 - Rahul Dev Burman was born (d. 1994). Indian composer and actor.
• 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.
• 1941 - Avi Lerner was born. Israeli-born American film producer.
• 1941 - Bill Baxley was born. American politician.
• 1941 - James P. Hogan was born. British science fiction author.
• 1941 - Krzysztof Kieślowski was born (d. 1996). Polish film director.
• 1942 - Bruce Johnston was born. American musician (The Beach Boys).
• 1942 - Frank Mills was born. Canadian pianist and composer.
• 1943 – Kjersti Døvigen was born. Norwegian actress.
• 1943 - Rico Petrocelli was born. American baseball player.
• 1944 - Bruce Johnston was born. Grammy Award-winning song writer: I Write the Songs [1976]; musician: group: The Beach Boys.
• 1944 – Patrick Sercu was born. Belgian cyclist.
• 1944 - Zezé Motta was born. Brazilian singer and actress.
• 1944 - Milan Hodža dies (b. 1878). Slovak politician.
• 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.
• 1948 - Camile Baudoin was born. American musician.
• 1949 - Vera Wang was born. American fashion designer.
• 1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
• 1951 – Julia Duffy was born. American actress.
• 1951 - Mary McAleese was born. President of Ireland.
• 1952 - Madan Kumar Bhandari was born (d. 1993). Nepalese politician.
• 1952 - Elmo Lincoln dies (b. 1889). American actor.
• 1952 - Max Dehn dies (b. 1878). German mathematician.
• 1953 - Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1953 - Angelo Gonzalez was born. Argentine sculptor.
• 1954 - The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• 1954 - Maximilian von Weichs dies (b. 1881). German field marshal.
• 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.
• 1956 - Brad Childress was born. American football coach.
• 1956 - Heiner Dopp was born. German field hockey player.
• 1956 - Ted Haggard was born. American evangelical preacher.
• 1957 - Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
• 1957 - Malcolm Lowry dies (b. 1909). Novelist.
• 1958 - Brian Helicopter was born. Musician, bass guitarist (The Shapes HellsBelles Rogue Male).
• 1958 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce was born (d. 1996). American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club).
• 1958 - Lisa Germano was born. American singer, songwriter and musician.
• 1958 - Magnus Lindberg was born. Finnish composer.
• 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 - Dan Jurgens was born. American comic book writer.
• 1959 - Lorrie Morgan was born. American country music singer.
• 1960 – Craig Hodges was born. American basketball player.
• 1960 - Lottie Dod dies (b. 1871). English athlete.
• 1961 - Margo Timmins was born. Canadian folk-rock singer (Cowboy Junkies).
• 1961 – Meera Syal was born. British-Indian comedienne and actress.
• 1962 - Michael Ball was born. British singer.
• 1962 - Tony Leung Chiu Wai was born. Hong Kong actor.
• 1962 - Paul Viiding dies (b. 1904). Estonian poet.
• 1963 - Paul Roos was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1963 - Johnny Benson was born. American NASCAR driver.
• 1964 - Chuck Person was born. American basketball player.
• 1964 - Stephan Brenninkmeijer was born. Dutch film producer and director.
• 1966 - The first broadcast of Dark Shadows is aired on ABC-TV.
• 1966 - J. J. Abrams was born. American television writer and producer.
• 1967 - The world's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.
• 1967 - Sylvie Fréchette was born. French-Canadian synchronized swimmer.
• 1968 - Pascale Bussières was born. French-Canadian actress.
• 1969 - Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match.
• 1969 – The Stonewall riots that mark the beginning of the gay liberation movement begin in Greenwich Village in Manhattan.
• 1970 - The British rock band Queen played their first public performance in City Hall, Truro, Cornwall, UK (though still billed as Smile).
• 1970 - Daniel Kinsey dies (b. 1902). American hurdler.
• 1970 - Jim Edmonds was born. American baseball player.
• 1970 - Vitamin C was born. Pop singer.
• 1970 - John Eales was born. Australian rugby player.
• 1970 - António de Oliveira Salazar dies in Lisbon (b. 28 Apr 1889). Portuguese ditator.
• 1970 - Daniel Kinsey dies (b. 1902). American hurdler.
• 1970 - Jim Edmonds was born. American baseball player.
• 1971 - Jo Frost was born. English nanny and television host.
• 1972 - ATARI is established by Nolan Bushnell.
• 1973 - Heath Irwin was born. NFL guard.
• 1973 - The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'état. / 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.
• 1974 - Big Moe was born. American musician (Screwed Up Click).
• 1975 - Daryle Ward was born. American baseball player.
• 1975 - Ace Darling was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1975 - Sarah Evanetz was born. Canadian swimmer.
• 1975 - Tobey Maguire was born. American actor.
• 1976 - Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda. 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.
• 1976 - Johnny Estrada was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti.
• 1977 - Arkadiusz Radomski was born. Polish footballer.
• 1977 - Raúl was born. Spanish football star.
• 1977 - Arkadiusz Radomski was born. Polish footballer.
• 1978 - Anna Kumble, also known as Lolly, was born. British singer, also known as Lolly.
• 1979 - Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing.
• 1979 - Kim Gyu-ri was born. South Korean actress.
• 1979 - John Warne was born. American musician (Relient K; Ace Troubleshooter).
• 1980 - A commercial DC-9 (Itavia Flight 870) was apparently shot down.
• 1980 - Craig Terrill was born. American football player.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1983 - Dale Steyn was born. South African cricketer.
• 1983 - Evan Taubenfeld was born. American musician.
• 1984 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau is awarded with the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
• 1984 - France wins soccer's European Cup.
• 1984 - Emma Lahana was born. New Zealand actress.
• 1984 - Julie Ordon was born. Swiss model (see Julie Ordon wallpaper).
• 1984 - Khloe Kardashian was born. American reality television star.
• 1984 - Rocio Guirao Diaz was born. Argentinian Model.
• 1985 - U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official highway.
• 1985 - James Hook was born. Welsh rugby player.
• 1985 - Nico Rosberg was born. German race car driver.
• 1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova was born. 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 - The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the Nicaragua v. United States.
• 1986 - Drake Bell was born. American actor and musician.
• 1986 - George Nepia dies (b. 1905). New Zealand rugby player.
• 1987 – A commercial HS 748 (Philippine Airlines Flight 206) crashes near Baguio City, Philippines, killing 50.
• 1988 - Mike Tyson quickly retained his undisputed world heavyweight title by knocking out Michael Spinks in the first round.
• 1988 - 59 are killed and 55 are injured as a runaway train in Gare de Lyon, France plows into a packed rush-hour train.
• 1988 - Kate Ziegler was born. American swimmer.
• 1988 - Hillel Slovak dies (b. 1962). Israeli American guitarist.
• 1989 - Matthew Lewis was born. English actor.
• 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, after declaring independence two days before, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
• 1991 - Madylin Sweeten was born. American actress.
• 1991 - Klaas Bruinsma dies (b. 1953). Dutch drug lord.
• 1991 - Milton Subotsky dies (b. 1921). American screenwriter.
• 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 (b. 17 Dec. 1926). English writer.
• 1995 - Jodi Huisentruit, an anchorwoman in Mason City, Iowa disappears, presumably abducted.
• 1996 - Cubby Broccoli was born (d. 1909). American film producer.
• 1996 - Albert R. Broccoli dies (b. 1909). American film producer.
• 1998 - Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia.
• 1998 - Kerim Tekin dies. Turkish singer .
• 1998 - Gilles Rocheleau dies (b. 1935). French Canadian politician.
• 1999 - George Papadopoulos dies (b. 1919). 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 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
• 2001 - Pope John Paul II beatified 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification took place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
• 2001 - Jack Lemmon dies (b. 1925). American actor and film director.
• 2001 - Roberto Pires dies (b. 1934). Brazilian film director.
• 2001 - Tove Jansson dies (b. 1914). Finnish author of the Moomins.
• 2002 - John Entwistle dies (b. 1944). English bassist (The Who).
• 2003 - The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolled almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
• 2003 - David Newman dies (b. 1937). American filmmaker.
• 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 - Darrell Russell dies (b. 1968). American race car driver.
• 2004 - George Patton IV dies (b. 1923). American general.
• 2005 - AMD files broad antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
• 2005 - Shelby Foote dies (b. 1917). American author and historian of the The Civil War: A Narrative series.
• 2005 - John T. Walton dies (b. 1946). American businessman.
• 2005 - Domino Harvey dies (b. 1969). English-born bounty hunter.
• 2005 - Frank Harte dies. Traditional Irish Singer and song collector.
• 2005 - John T. Walton dies (b. 1946). American businessman.
• 2005 - Ray Holmes dies (b. 1914). Battle of Britain veteran.
• 2006 - Ángel Maturino Reséndiz dies (b. 1959). Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer".
• 2007 - The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
• 2007 – Tony Blair resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is succeeded by Gordon Brown.
• 2007 - Bruno Tolentino dies in São Paulo (b. 12 Nov. 1940). Brazilian poet.
  
• 2007 - Patrick Allotey dies (b. 1979). Ghana footballer.
• 2007 - Dragutin Tadijanović dies (b. 1905). Croatian poet.
• 2007 - William Hutt dies (b. 1920). Canadian stage and film actor.
• 2008 – Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Feast of St Cyril of Alexandria.
• National HIV Testing Day in United States.
• National Veterans' Day in the United Kingdom.
• Stonewall Day (date of many gay pride celebrations, including those in New York City, San Francisco, Toronto, and Madrid).