Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 27
This is a list of selected June 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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A. E. J. Collins -
Jesus College, Oxford -
Jacobo Árbenz
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Mixed Race Day in Brazil; | refimprove |
| Independence Day in Djibouti | unreferenced section |
| 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa, a maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia, was founded. | refimprove |
| 1556 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs were burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs. | refimprove section |
| 1760 – Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeated British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina, U.S. | refimprove section |
| 1844 – Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by an armed mob who stormed the prison where they were incarcerated in Carthage, Illinois. | refimprove section |
| 1898 – Canadian-American seaman and adventurer Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the globe sailing on his refitted sloop-rigged fishing boat Spray, a distance of more than 46,000 miles (74,000 km). | Slocum: refimprove; Spray: unreferenced section |
| 1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant near Moscow was connected to the electrical grid, becoming the world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity industrially. | Citations needed |
| 1967 – The world's first electronic automated teller machine was installed in Enfield Town, London, by Barclays Bank. | refimprove section |
| 1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closed the Fillmore East, the "Church of Rock and Roll", in New York City. | refimprove |
| 1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv–Athens–Paris) was hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda. | appears on July 4 |
| 1980 – Itavia Flight 870 suffered an in-flight explosion due to unknown causes while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 people on board. | multiple issues |
| 1981 – Ali Khamenei, Iranian supreme leader, was seriously injured in an assassination attempt. | expansion |
| 1986 – In Nicaragua v. United States, the International Court of Justice ruled that the United States had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government. | refimprove section |
| 1989 – Convention 169, a major binding international convention concerning indigenous peoples, and a forerunner of the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, was adopted by the International Labour Organization. | unreffed sections |
| 1991 – Yugoslavia invaded Slovenia, two days after the latter's declaration of independence from the former, starting the Ten-Day War. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 678 – Pope Agatho, later venerated as a saint in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, began his pontificate.
- 1571 – Queen Elizabeth I issued a royal charter establishing Jesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of Oxford.
- 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time that a British monarch led troops in battle, Allied forces commanded by George II (depicted) defeated the French army at Dettingen, Bavaria.
- 1864 – American Civil War: General Sherman's frontal assault against the Confederate Army of Tennessee failed, but did not stop the Union Army from advancing on Atlanta.
- 1905 – First Russian Revolution: The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutiny against their officers.
- 1954 – Jacobo Árbenz resigned as President of Guatemala following a CIA-led coup against his administration.
- 1957 – Hurricane Audrey made landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana, U.S.
- 2007 – As a result of an ongoing conflict between drug dealers and police in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a large military and civil police operation killed 19 people and injured several others.
- 2008 – Robert Mugabe was re-elected as President of Zimbabwe with an overwhelming majority after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
- 2015 – Ignition of corn starch caused a dust fire at a water park in New Taipei City, Taiwan, killing 12 people and injuring more than 400 others.
- 2017 – Websites of Ukrainian organizations were swamped by a massive cyberattack, blamed on Russian military hackers, using the malware Petya.
- Born/died this day: | Conan I of Rennes |d|992| Thomas Erpingham |d|1428| James Smithson |d|1829| Eugenia Washington |b|1838| Frank Rattray Lillie |b|1870| Sarah Helen Whitman |d|1878| Charlie Macartney |b|1886| Rosalie Allen |b|1924| Mary McAleese |b|1951| Nekima Levy Armstrong |b|1976| Svetlana Kuznetsova |b|1985| Michael Nyqvist |d|2017
Artist's impression of Hayabusa2
- 1869 – One day after surrendering at the Battle of Hakodate, Enomoto Takeaki turned the fort of Goryōkaku over to Japanese forces, signaling the collapse of the Republic of Ezo.
- 1899 – A. E. J. Collins scored 628 runs not out, the highest recorded score in cricket until being surpassed in 2016.
- 1976 – The first identifiable case of Ebola occurred in Sudan.
- 1994 – Members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas in Matsumoto, Nagano, killing eight people and injuring more than five hundred others.
- 2018 – The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 (artist's impression pictured) arrived at the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for return to Earth.
- Ranjit Singh (d. 1839)
- Guilhermina Suggia (b. 1885)
- Wanda Gág (d. 1946)