June 27

June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 187 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the battle of Poltava
1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec
1893 - Crash of the New York stock market
1905 - Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin
1950 - 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
1962 - Construction begins on the St. Louis Gateway Arch
1967 - World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London
1969 - The Stonewall riots mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the US
1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti
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 2 days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft
2001 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case

1682 - Charles XII of Sweden, king of Sweden in 1697-1718 († 1718) (June 17 in Swedish calendar)
1838 - Paul von Mauser, weapon designer († 1914)
1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, author († 1904)
1869 - Hans Spemann, zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1935 († 1941)
1869 - Emma Goldman, anarchist, feminist, free love advocate († 1940)
1870 - Frank Rattray Lillie, zoologist, embryologist († 1947)
1880 - Helen Keller, spokeswoman for the deaf and blind († 1968)
1882 - Eduard Spranger, philosopher, psychologist and educator († 1963)
1906 - Catherine Cookson, author († 1998)
1913 - Willie Mosconi, professional billiards player († 1993)
1925 - Jerome Felder, AKA Doc Pomus, musician, composer († 1991)
1927 - Otto Herbert Hajek, sculptor
1930 - Ross Perot, billionaire and politician
1931 - Charles Bronfman, industrialist
1935 - Anna Moffo, soprano
1941 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director († 1996)
1949 - Vera Wang, fashion designer
1955 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
1962 - Tony Leung Chiu Wai, English actor
1975 - Tobey Maguire, actor
1977 - Ra�l, Spanish football star

363 - Emperor Julian
1458 - Alfonso V of Aragon
1831 - Sophie Germain, mathematician
1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1952 - Elmo Lincoln, actor
1957 - Malcolm Lowry, novelist (* 1909)
1998 - Kerim Tekin, Turkish singer
2001 - Jack Lemmon, actor and film director
2001 - Tove Jansson, author of the Moomin books.
2002 - John Entwistle, bass player for The Who

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)

See Also:

June 26 - June 28 - May 27 - July 27 -- listing of all days