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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, began his pontificate.
- 1571 – Elizabeth I of England issued a royal charter establishing Jesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of Oxford.
- 1869 – One day after surrendering at the Battle of Hakodate, Enomoto Takeaki turned over Goryōkaku to Japanese forces, signaling the collapse of the Republic of Ezo.
- 1899 – A. E. J. Collins scored 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket until 2016.
- 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.
- 1954 – Jacobo Árbenz resigned the presidency 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.
- 1989 – The International Labour Organization 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.
- 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult released sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan, killing 8 and injuring over 500 others.
- 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.
- 2017 – Websites of Ukranian organizations were swamped by a massive cyberattack using the Petya malware, which was blamed on Russian military hackers.
- 2018 – The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 landed on the asteroid 62173 Ryugu to collect samples to return to Earth.
- Born/died this day: Conan I of Rennes (d. 992) | Eugenia Washington (b. 1838) | Ranjit Singh (d. 1839) | Charlie Macartney (b. 1886) | Rosalie Allen (b. 1924) | Mary McAleese (b. 1951) | Nekima Levy Armstrong (b. 1976) | Svetlana Kuznetsova (b. 1985)
George II at Dettingen
- 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.
- 1976 – The first identifiable case of Ebola occurred in Sudan.
- 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.
- James Smithson (d. 1829)
- Frank Rattray Lillie (b. 1870)
- Michael Nyqvist (d. 2017)