Historical Events on June 27

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• 678 St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 992 Battle of Conquereuil won by the Count of Anjou, Fulk the Black, defeating Conan I, Count of Brittany, in western France
• 1192 Ladislaus I, Árpád dynasty King (1077-95) venerated as Roman Catholic saint

• 1358 Republic of Dubrovnik is founded

• 1552 Cathedral Church of Charcas established in Charcas, Spanish Empire (later La Plata, now Sucre, Bolivia) [1]
• 1580 Duke of Alva's army occupies Portugal
• 1598 Disastrous Dutch expedition to find new spice routes and harass Spanish territories leaves Rotterdam, only one of the five ships with just 36 crew ever return [1]
• 1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America
• 1693 1st sea battle of Lagos: a French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeated an Anglo-Dutch fleet under George Rooke
• 1697 Polish parliament selects monarch August of Saxony as king

• 1756 French fleet conquer St Philips Castle of Minorca

• 1806 Buenos Aires captured by British
• 1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecticut
• 1847 New York & Boston linked by telegraph wires
• 1857 Bibighar massacre of 120 British women and children following the siege of Cawnpore

• 1860 First running of the Queen's Plate at Toronto's Carleton Track - North America's oldest continuously run horse race [1]
• 1862 -28] Battle at Garnett's/Golding's Farms, Virginia
• 1862 Battle of Gaines's Mill, VA (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3
• 1863 Skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia
• 1864 Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia: Colonel Sherman makes unsuccessful frontal attack on Confederate defensive lin

• 1867 Bank of California opens doors
• 1876 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Philadelphia Athletics)
• 1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate
• 1890 Canadian boxer George Dixon becomes first black world champion when he stops English bantamweight champion Edwin "Nunc" Wallace in 18 rounds in London, England

• 1893 Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
• 1894 American Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] sets out from Boston to become first woman to bicycle around the world (completes journey September 1895)

• 1905 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is established at "The "Continental Congress of the Working Class" in Chicago, Illinois; members include representatives of the Socialist Labor Party/Socialist Trades & Labor Alliance, Socialist Party of America, Western Federation of Miners and the International Working People's Association
• 1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin" and sail for Odessa
• 1906 The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) established in London with Lord Kelvin as President to standardize electrical units and terms [1]

• 1914 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
• 1915 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)
• 1915 Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription

• 1918 Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle sunk by German U-boat off southern Ireland - only 24 of 258 people on board survive (U-boat officers later charged with war crimes) [1]
• 1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)

• 1929 1st color Television demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC
• 1929 German President Paul von Hindenburg refuses to pay the German reparation debt of WWI
• 1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
• 1935 Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ
• 1939 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)

• 1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Bees, 2-2 in 23 innings; called on account of darkness after 5 hours 15 minutes
• 1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania

• 1941 Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
• 1941 Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam
• 1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
• 1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
• 1943 Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m)
• 1943 Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5)
• 1944 Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies
• 1945 Foundation 1940-45 established
• 1947 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
• 1947 WRC TV channel 4 in Washington, D.C. (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1949 "Captain Video & His Video Rangers" debut on DUMONT-TV - Television's first sci-fi series

• 1950 South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
• 1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
• 1953 Joseph Laniel appointed French premier

• 1954 First nuclear power station opens, in Obninsk near Moscow, Russia
• 1954 Hungary beats Brazil, 4-2 in the "Battle of Berne" as FIFA World Cup quarter-final descends into an all-out brawl with 3 players sent-off; fighting continues in dressing rooms after final whistle
• 1955 "Julius LaRosa Show" debuts on CBS-TV
• 1955 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
• 1956 MLB Cleveland Indians trailing Baltimore Orioles 9-1, come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings
• 1957 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana & Texas
• 1957 The British Medical Research Council publishes a report suggesting a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
• 1958 Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th
• 1958 Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) NY to London
• 1959 Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the MLB All-Star Game
• 1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
• 1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge, Massachusetts

• 1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
• 1961 Ghana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
• 1962 Dutch soccer clubs Rapid JC and Roda Sports merge to form Roda JC Kerkrade; KNVB Cup winners 1996–97, 1999–2000
• 1962 In South Africa, the General Law Amendment Act (Sabotage Act) No 76 commences, increasing the state president's power to declare organisations unlawful and to add further restrictions to banning orders

• 1963 Billy J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon-McCartney song "I Call Your Name"
• 1963 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but teammate centerfielder Tony Gonzalez's error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games

• 1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth, flying in X-15 rocket powered aircraft, reaches altitude 285,000 feet (86,868 meters)
• 1964 "Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" by Die Beatles peaks at #97
• 1966 Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV
• 1967 Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)
• 1967 World's first ATM is installed by Barclays Bank in Enfield, London
• 1968 Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague

• 1969 Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match

• 1970 Following the arrest of Bernadette Devlin, intense riots erupt in Derry and Belfast leading to a prolonged gun battle between Irish republicans and loyalists
• 1971 Bill Graham's New York rock venue Fillmore East closes down, to be succeeded by Fillmore West in San Francisco

• 1973 John Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
• 1973 Uruguayan president Juan Maria Bordaberry dissolves parliament and heads a coup d'état - beginning of the civic-military dictatorship
• 1974 American TV variety program "The Flip Wilson Show" last airs on NBC-TV, after 4 seasons, winning 2 Emmy Awards
• 1974 US President Nixon visits USSR
• 1976 Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers, members of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany
• 1976 In South Africa, the National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness
• 1976 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president
• 1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
• 1977 Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France

• 1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1
• 1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
• 1978 US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit

• 1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
• 1980 1st female state police graduates (NJ)
• 1980 Dodgers' Jerry Reuss no-hits SF Giants 8-0
• 1980 Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
• 1980 US revives draft registration

• 1981 Cambodia adopts its constitution
• 1981 Pamela Jenks, aged 21, is crowned the 14th Miss Black America
• 1982 "Play Me a Country Song" opens & closes at Virginia Theater NYC
• 1982 4th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 4 (STS-4) launches
• 1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Joan Miro
• 1983 Maxie Anderson and Don Ida, American balloonists, die during a crash landing in endurance race in Schweinfurt, West Germany
• 1983 MLB Seattle Mariners bat out of order against Chicago White Sox in 2nd inning
• 1983 NASA launches space vehicle S-205
• 1983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
• 1984 Fire destroys a set in "A View to a Kill"
• 1984 Late Night's 1st Tower Drop
• 1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
• 1985 First hotel strike in New York City
• 1985 Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
• 1986 American tennis player Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing a white, one-piece, lycra body suit in 1st round match against Pam Shriver; wears regular outfit after rain break

• 1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce

• 1986 Robby Thompson (SF Giants) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
• 1986 South African Journalist and founder of the 'New Nation' newspaper, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted; he was released 721 days later on 2 December 1988
• 1986 US informs NZ it will not defend it against attack
• 1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
• 1987 "The Living Daylights", 15th James Bond film, 1st film to star Timothy Dalton premieres in London
• 1987 In South Africa, the Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed

• 1988 Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning

• 1990 NBA Draft: Syracuse power forward Derrick Coleman first pick by New Jersey Nets

• 1992 Dan O'Brien fails on pole vault & eliminated from Olympics decathlon
• 1992 Daryl Gates retires as LA police chief

• 1993 NY Met pitcher Anthony Young loses record 24th straight game
• 1994 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood, New Mexico a state record
• 1994 Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
• 1994 NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
• 1995 Holland's debut in English domestic comp (v Northants, NatWest)
• 1995 Mason City Iowa's TV news personality Jodi Huisentruit disappears
• 1995 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches
• 1995 William Alford, engineer for rival radio station WMMS, is sentenced to 10 days & $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's live broadcast from Cleveland
• 1998 NHL Draft: Rimouski Oceanic (QMJHL) center Vincent Lecavalier first pick by Tampa Bay Lightning
• 1998 Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
• 1999 ATB go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with "9pm, Till I Come"
• 1999 The Chemical Brothers go #1 on the UK album chart with 'Surrender', their second #1 album

• 2001 NBA Draft: Glynn Academy center Kwame Brown first pick by Washington Wizards

• 2001 The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
• 2003 The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
• 2005 "Bad Day" single is released by Daniel Powter, 1st song to sell 2 million digital copies in the US (Billboard Song of the Year 2006)

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

• 2009 The Tower of Hercules in northern Spain - only preserved Roman lighthouse still in use is inscribed as a World Heritage Site [1]
• 2013 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Anthony Bennett first pick Cleveland Cavaliers
• 2013 Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is re-elected President of Mongolia
• 2014 NHL Coyotes franchise changes geographic name from "Phoenix" to "Arizona" after change of ownership
• 2016 US Supreme Court strikes down Texas law restricting abortion 5-3
• 2017 African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina wins the World Food Prize

• 2017 European Union fines Google record $2.7 billion for unfair competition practices

• 2017 Petya malware cyber-attack affects organisations in more than 64 countries

• 2018 Complex carbon-based molecules found by Cassini spacecraft on Saturn moon Enceladus, previously only ever found on earth and meteorites in research published in "Nature"

• 2018 French government introduces plan to bring back national service for 16 year-olds
• 2018 Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 arrives at diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu

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