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This day in history: 27 June

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353 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 27 June.
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2024: U.S. President Joe Biden debates former U.S. President Donald Trump. Biden's perceived poor performance leads to his withdrawal from the election on July 21.

Holidays and observances

Canadian Multiculturalism Day (Canada)

Christian feast day: Arialdo

Christian feast day: Blessed Louise-Thérèse de Montaignac de Chauvance

Christian feast day: Crescens, one of the Seventy disciples

Christian feast day: Cyril of Alexandria (Coptic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion and Lutheran Church)

Christian feast day: Gundenis

Christian feast day: Hemma of Gurk

Christian feast day: June 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Marguerite Bays

Christian feast day: Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Christian feast day: Sampson the Hospitable

Christian feast day: Zoilus

Events

2024U.S. President Joe Biden debates former U.S. President Donald Trump. Biden's perceived poor performance leads to his withdrawal from the election on July 21.

2017A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.

2015Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.

2014At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

2013NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space probe to observe the Sun.

2008In a highly scrutinized election, President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.

2007The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

2007Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. Chancellor Gordon Brown succeeds him.

1995Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-71, the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.

1994Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

1991Two days after it had declared independence, Slovenia is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.

1988The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.

1988Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.

1982Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.

1981The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 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.

1980The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.

1977Constitution for the Federation of Earth was adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria.

1977France grants independence to Djibouti.

1976Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PFLP and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.

1974U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.

1973The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.

1957Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.

1954The 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.

1954The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.

1950The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.

1946In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.

1944World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese.

1941Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.

1941World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.

1928The Rovaniemi township decree is promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi secedes from the old rural municipality as its own market town on January 1, 1929.

1927Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.

1924The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens after five years of construction, providing a land connection for road and rail vehicles travelling between Johor and Singapore.

1914The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.

1905During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.

1898The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

1895The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

1864American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta campaign.

1844Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.

1806British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.

1760Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.

Born on this day

2002Kelee Ringo, American football player

2000Chris Olave, American football player

1999Chandler Riggs, American actor

1999Will Levis, American football player

1997Dalton Eatherly, American livestreamer, better known as Chud the Builder

1997H.E.R., American singer-songwriter

1997Jehyve Floyd, American basketball player

1997Yordan Alvarez, Cuban baseball player

1995Monté Morris, American basketball player

1994Anita Husarić, Bosnian tennis player

1993Alberto Campbell-Staines, Australian athlete

1993Johanna Talihärm, Estonian biathlete

1992Ahn So-hee, South Korean singer and actress

1992Karthika Nair, Indian actress

1991Oliver Stark, British actor

1990Bobby Wagner, American football player

1989Hana Birnerová, Czech tennis player

1989Matthew Lewis, English actor

1989Sabino Brunello, Italian chess grandmaster

1988Kate Ziegler, American swimmer

1988Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer

1988Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast

1987Ed Westwick, English actor

1987India de Beaufort, English actress

1986Bryan Fletcher, American skier

1986Drake Bell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

1986LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter

1986Sam Claflin, British actor

1985James Hook, Welsh rugby player

1985Nico Rosberg, German race car driver

1985Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player

1984Aiden Blizzard, Australian cricketer

1984D.J. King, Canadian ice hockey player

1984Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer

1984Khloé Kardashian, American model, businesswoman, and radio host

1983Dale Steyn, South African cricketer

1983Jim Johnson, American baseball player

1983Nikola Rakočević, Serbian actor

1982Laura Dre, German-Filipina electronic musician, singer-songwriter and music producer

1981Andrew Embley, Australian footballer

Died on this day

2026K. Bhagyaraj, Indian film and television actor, writer, director, and producer (born 1953)

2024Kinky Friedman, American country musician (born 1944)

2024Martin Mull, American actor (born 1943)

2018Joe Jackson, American manager, father of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson (born 1928)

2018Liz Jackson, Australian journalist and former barrister (born 1951)

2018William McBride, Australian obstetrician (born 1927)

2017Peter L. Berger, Austrian sociologist (born 1929)

2016Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer, actor, and screenwriter (born 1929)

2015Chris Squire, English musician (bass guitarist), singer and songwriter, member of the rock band Yes (born 1948)

2015Knut Helle, Norwegian historian and professor (born 1930)

2015Zvi Elpeleg, Polish-Israeli diplomat, author, and academic (born 1926)

2014Allen Grossman, American poet, critic, and academic (born 1932)

2014Edmond Blanchard, Canadian jurist and politician (born 1954)

2014Leslie Manigat, Haitian educator and politician, 43rd President of Haiti (born 1930)

2014Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1926)

2014Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (born 1919)

2013Ian Scott, English-New Zealand painter (born 1945)

2013Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer (born 1964)

2012Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet and illustrator (born 1920)

2012Stan Cox, English runner (born 1918)

2011Mike Doyle, English footballer (born 1946)

2010Corey Allen, American film and television actor, writer, director, and producer (born 1934)

2009Gale Storm, American actress (born 1922)

2008Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (born 1914)

2007William Hutt, Canadian actor (born 1920)

2006Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer (born 1960)

2006Eileen Barton, American singer (born 1924)

2005John T. Walton, American businessman, co-founded the Children's Scholarship Fund (born 1946)

2005Ray Holmes, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1914)

2005Shelby Foote, American historian and author (born 1916)

Quote of the day

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

attributed to the Buddha

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