June 27

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

Births

• 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 - Raúl, Spanish football star

Deaths

• 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)
• 1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler
• 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

Holidays and observances

• 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)

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