June 27

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1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
1806 - The British capture Buenos Aires.
1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr and his brother Hyrum murdered in Carthage Jail, Carthage, Illinois.
1864 - Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the American Civil War.
1867 - The Bank of California opens its doors
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.
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.
1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1953 - Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France.
1954 - World's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1957 - Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
1967 - World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.
1972 - ATARI is established by Nolan Bushnell.
1974 - U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.
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.
1984 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
1985 - Route 66 ceases to be an official highway.
1986 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the Nicaragua v. United States.
1991 - Slovenia, which declared independent two days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft.
1995 - Jodi Huisentruit, an anchorwoman in Mason City, Iowa disappears, presumably abducted.
2001 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.

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1194 - Sancho VI of Navarre
1462 - King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
1550 - King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
1682 - King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718) (June 17 in Swedish calendar)
1838 - Paul von Mauser, weapon designer (d. 1914)
1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, author (d. 1904)
1869 - Hans Spemann, zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1935 (d. 1941)
1869 - Emma Goldman, anarchist, feminist, free love advocate (d. 1940)
1870 - Frank Rattray Lillie, zoologist, embryologist (d. 1947)
1880 - Helen Keller, spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
1882 - Eduard Spranger, philosopher, psychologist and educator (d. 1963)
1906 - Catherine Cookson, author (d. 1998)
1913 - Willie Mosconi, professional billiards player (d. 1993)
1925 - Jerome Felder, AKA Doc Pomus, musician, composer (d. 1991)
1928 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1927 - Otto Herbert Hajek, sculptor
1930 - Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
1931 - Charles Bronfman, industrialist
1932 - Anna Moffo, American soprano
1941 - Raymond Winn, Utah Professional Engineer
1941 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director (d. 1996)
1949 - Vera Wang, fashion designer
1954 - Patsy Hernandez, Controller Garfield County
1955 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
1959 - Clint Boon, musician best known for playing keyboards in the band Inspiral Carpets
1962 - Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
1963 - Meera Syal, comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress
1966 - J. J. Abrams, television writer and producer
1970 - Jim Edmonds, baseball player
1970 - Vitamin C, pop singer
1975 - Tobey Maguire, actor
1977 - Raúl, Spanish football star
1980 - Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
1983 - Alsou, Russian singer
1991 - Madylin Sweeten, actress

[edit] Deaths

363 - Emperor Julian
1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1149 - Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch (b. 1099)
1458 - Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
1655 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
1829 - James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute
1831 - Sophie Germain, mathematician (b. 1776)
1844 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr. founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
1952 - Elmo Lincoln, actor
1957 - Malcolm Lowry, novelist (b. 1909)
1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete
1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1998 - Kerim Tekin, Turkish singer
2001 - Jack Lemmon, actor and film director (b. 1925)

2001 - Tove Jansson, author of the Moomin books (b. 1914)
2002 - John Entwistle, bass player for The Who (b. 1944)
2004 - Darrell Russell, NHRA drag racer (b. 1968)

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