- Change theme
Search by Keyword
Search by Date
This Day On History
| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 30th of November -0001 | EVENT | Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. |
| 27th of June 1358 | EVENT | Republic of Dubrovnik is founded |
| 27th of June 1743 | EVENT | War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field. |
| 27th of June 1759 | EVENT | General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec. |
| 27th of June 1806 | EVENT | British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Rio de la Plata. |
| 27th of June 1844 | EVENT | Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail. |
| 27th of June 1895 | EVENT | The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. |
| 27th of June 1898 | EVENT | The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia. |
| 27th of June 1899 | EVENT | A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket. |
| 27th of June 1905 | EVENT | Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. |
| 27th of June 1923 | EVENT | Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane |
| 27th of June 1941 | EVENT | Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iasi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews. |
| 27th of June 1941 | EVENT | German troops capture the city of Bia?ystok during Operation Barbarossa. |
| 27th of June 1950 | EVENT | The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War. |
| 27th of June 1954 | EVENT | The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. |
| 27th of June 1967 | EVENT | The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London. |
| 27th of June 1973 | EVENT | The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'etat. |
| 27th of June 1974 | EVENT | U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.. |
| 27th of June 1976 | EVENT | Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda. |
| 27th of June 1977 | EVENT | France grants independence to Djibouti. |
| 27th of June 1982 | EVENT | Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4. |
| 27th of June 1989 | EVENT | The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted. |
| 27th of June 1991 | EVENT | Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War. |
| 27th of June 2007 | EVENT | The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemao in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemao massacre. |
| 27th of June 0862 | BIRTHDAY | Hindu saint Manikkavacakar |
| 27th of June 1040 | BIRTHDAY | King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095) |
| 27th of June 1350 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel II Palaiologos, Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1425) |
| 27th of June 1462 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis XII of France (d. 1515) |
| 27th of June 1550 | BIRTHDAY | King Charles IX of France (d. 1574) |
| 27th of June 1696 | BIRTHDAY | William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759) |
| 27th of June 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799) |
| 27th of June 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914) |
| 27th of June 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish independence fighter (d. 1891) |
| 27th of June 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (d. 1904) |
| 27th of June 1850 | BIRTHDAY | J?rgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919) |
| 27th of June 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Sir John Monash, Australian military commander (d. 1931) |
| 27th of June 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961) |
| 27th of June 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Goldman, Lithuanian/American anarchist and feminist (d. 1940) |
| 27th of June 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941) |
| 27th of June 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d. 1968) |
| 27th of June 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and educator (d. 1963) |
| 27th of June 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962) |
| 27th of June 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist(d. 1950) |
| 27th of June 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960) |
| 27th of June 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946) |
| 27th of June 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985) |
| 27th of June 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981) |
| 27th of June 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976) |
| 27th of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991) |
| 27th of June 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967) |
| 27th of June 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (d. 1993) |
| 27th of June 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (d. 1988) |
| 27th of June 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981) |
| 27th of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Lee Boggs, American anti-racist and feminist activist |
| 27th of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Muriel Pavlow, British actress |
| 27th of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Berthier, French composer (d. 1994) |
| 27th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Appleyard, English cricketer |
| 27th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (d. 2003) |
| 27th of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Doc Pomus, American blues singer/songwriter (d. 1991) |
| 27th of June 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Frank O'Hara, American Poet (d.1966) |
| 27th of June 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Keeshan, American actor (d. 2004) |
| 27th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995) |
| 27th of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | William Afflis, American wrestler (d. 1991) |
| 27th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Perot, American businessman and politician |
| 27th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 27th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist |
| 27th of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006) |
| 27th of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Magali Noel, French actress |
| 27th of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Kasko, baseball player |
| 27th of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent Terzieff, French actor |
| 27th of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (d. 2007) |
| 27th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Lucille Clifton, American poet (d. 2010) |
| 27th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Kirkpatrick Sale, American author |
| 27th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Cannon, British comedian |
| 27th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Anne Field, British actress |
| 27th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Beaumont, British voice actress |
| 27th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Babbitt, American politician and Secretary of the Interior |
| 27th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and actor (d. 1994) |
| 27th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish film director (d. 1996) |
| 27th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | James P. Hogan, British science fiction author |
| 27th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Baxley, American politician |
| 27th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Avi Lerner, Israeli-born American film producer |
| 27th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys) |
| 27th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer |
| 27th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player |
| 27th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Kjersti D?vigen, Norwegian actress |
| 27th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist |
| 27th of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Camile Baudoin, American musician |
| 27th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Vera Wang, American fashion designer |
| 27th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Duffy, American actress |
| 27th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Mary McAleese, President of Ireland 1997 : present |
| 27th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d. 1993) |
| 27th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Isabelle Adjani, French actress |
| 27th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player |
| 27th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Cunningham, American Wicca and occult author (d. 1993) |
| 27th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Haggard, American evangelical preacher |
| 27th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Childress, American football coach |
| 27th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Germano, American singer, songwriter and musician |
| 27th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Helicopter, British musician, bass guitarist (The Shapes, HellsBelles, Rogue Male) |
| 27th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer |
| 27th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (d. 1996) |
| 27th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer |
| 27th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Lorrie Morgan, American country music singer |
| 27th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Hodges, American basketball player |
| 27th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress |
| 27th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ball, British singer |
| 27th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor |
| 27th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Roos, Australian rules footballer |
| 27th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Benson, American racing driver |
| 27th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Person, American basketball player |
| 27th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch film producer and director |
| 27th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer |
| 27th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvie Frechette, French-Canadian synchronized swimmer |
| 27th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Ayotte, American politician, junior senator of New Hampshire |
| 27th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Pascale Bussieres, French-Canadian actress |
| 27th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Petrenko, Ukranian figure skater |
| 27th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | John Eales, Australian Rugby Player |
| 27th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Edmonds, American baseball player |
| 27th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Frost, English nanny and television host |
| 27th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Yancey Arias, American actor |
| 27th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tony McCarroll, British drummer |
| 27th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kieren Keke, Nauruan politician |
| 27th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Dawud Wharnsby, Canadian poet and singer/songwriter |
| 27th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Abbath Doom Occulta, Norwegian black metal musician/songwriter (Immortal) |
| 27th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Kane, American actor and singer |
| 27th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer |
| 27th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Daryle Ward, American baseball player |
| 27th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ace Darling, American professional wrestler |
| 27th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tobey Maguire, American actor |
| 27th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Estrada, American baseball player |
| 27th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Leigh Nash, American musician (Sixpence None the Richer) |
| 27th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer |
| 27th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Raul, Spanish footballer |
| 27th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Kumble, British singer, also known as Lolly |
| 27th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney Ford, American actress |
| 27th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | John Warne, American musician (Relient K; Ace Troubleshooter) |
| 27th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Gyu-ri, South Korean actress |
| 27th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Speed, Australian musician and film composer |
| 27th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Terrill, American football player |
| 27th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer |
| 27th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Goodridge, American musician (Your Enemies Friends) |
| 27th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | John Driscoll, American actor |
| 27th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Embley, Australian rules footballer |
| 27th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alsou, Russian singer |
| 27th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Steyn, South African cricketer |
| 27th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Taubenfeld, American musician |
| 27th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Rocio Guirao Diaz, Argentinian model |
| 27th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Khloe Kardashian, American reality television star |
| 27th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | D.J. King, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Gokhan Inler, Swiss footballer |
| 27th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress |
| 27th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Ordon, Swiss model |
| 27th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player |
| 27th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | James Hook, Welsh rugby player |
| 27th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Nico Rosberg, German race car driver |
| 27th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Drake Bell, American actor and musician |
| 27th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter |
| 27th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Westwick, English actor |
| 27th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | India de Beaufort, British actress |
| 27th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast |
| 27th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer |
| 27th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Ziegler, American swimmer |
| 27th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Lewis, English actor |
| 27th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Bruna Tenorio, Brazilian model |
| 27th of June 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Aselin Debison, Canadian singer |
| 27th of June 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Phinney, American cyclist |
| 27th of June 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Madylin Sweeten, American actress |
| 27th of June 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Tanay Chheda, Indian actor |
| 27th of June 1162 | DEATH | Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (Born 1118) |
| 27th of June 1458 | DEATH | King Alfonso V of Aragon (Born 1396) |
| 27th of June 1574 | DEATH | Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (Born 1511) |
| 27th of June 1603 | DEATH | Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (Born 1539) |
| 27th of June 1627 | DEATH | John Hayward, English historian |
| 27th of June 1636 | DEATH | Date Masamune, founder of Sendai Japan (Born 1567) |
| 27th of June 1655 | DEATH | Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1598) |
| 27th of June 1672 | DEATH | Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (Born 1597) |
| 27th of June 1720 | DEATH | Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (Born 1639) |
| 27th of June 1773 | DEATH | Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (Born c. 1706) |
| 27th of June 1794 | DEATH | Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (Born 1711) |
| 27th of June 1794 | DEATH | Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French nobleman (Born 1715) |
| 27th of June 1794 | DEATH | Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (Born 1729) |
| 27th of June 1825 | DEATH | Domenico Vantini, Italian painter |
| 27th of June 1827 | DEATH | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (Born 1754) |
| 27th of June 1829 | DEATH | James Smithson, English scientist and philanthropist (Born 1765) |
| 27th of June 1831 | DEATH | Sophie Germain, French mathematician (Born 1776) |
| 27th of June 1844 | DEATH | Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of Latter Day Saint movement (Born 1805) |
| 27th of June 1844 | DEATH | Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (Born 1800) |
| 27th of June 1896 | DEATH | John Berryman, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (Born 1825) |
| 27th of June 1907 | DEATH | Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (Born 1822) |
| 27th of June 1912 | DEATH | George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (Born 1855) |
| 27th of June 1917 | DEATH | Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (Born 1896) |
| 27th of June 1935 | DEATH | Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (Born 1857) |
| 27th of June 1944 | DEATH | Milan Hodza, Slovak politician (Born 1878) |
| 27th of June 1949 | DEATH | Frank Smythe, British mountaineer (Born 1900) |
| 27th of June 1952 | DEATH | Max Dehn, German mathematician (Born 1878) |
| 27th of June 1954 | DEATH | Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (Born 1881) |
| 27th of June 1957 | DEATH | Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (Born 1924) |
| 27th of June 1960 | DEATH | Lottie Dod, English athlete (Born 1871) |
| 27th of June 1962 | DEATH | Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (Born 1904) |
| 27th of June 1970 | DEATH | Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (Born 1902) |
| 27th of June 1986 | DEATH | George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (Born 1905) |
| 27th of June 1987 | DEATH | Billy Snedden, Australian politician (Born 1926) |
| 27th of June 1989 | DEATH | Alfred Jules Ayer, British philosopher (Born 1910) |
| 27th of June 1991 | DEATH | Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (Born 1921) |
| 27th of June 1991 | DEATH | Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (Born 1953) |
| 27th of June 1996 | DEATH | Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (Born 1909) |
| 27th of June 1998 | DEATH | Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (Born 1935) |
| 27th of June 1999 | DEATH | Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (Born 1919) |
| 27th of June 2000 | DEATH | Molly Bish, American Abductee (Born 1983) |
| 27th of June 2000 | DEATH | Pierre Pflimlin, French Politician (Born 1907) |
| 27th of June 2001 | DEATH | Tove Jansson, Finnish author (Born 1914) |
| 27th of June 2001 | DEATH | Jack Lemmon, American actor (Born 1925) |
| 27th of June 2002 | DEATH | John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (Born 1944) |
| 27th of June 2002 | DEATH | Robert L. J. Long, American admiral (Born 1920) |
| 27th of June 2003 | DEATH | David Newman, American filmmaker (Born 1937) |
| 27th of June 2004 | DEATH | George Patton IV, American general (Born 1923) |
| 27th of June 2004 | DEATH | Darrell Russell, American race car driver (Born 1968) |
| 27th of June 2005 | DEATH | Shelby Foote, American author and historian (Born 1917) |
| 27th of June 2005 | DEATH | Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector |
| 27th of June 2005 | DEATH | Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (Born 1914) |
| 27th of June 2005 | DEATH | John T. Walton, American businessman (Born 1946) |
| 27th of June 2005 | DEATH | Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (Born 1969) |
| 27th of June 2006 | DEATH | Angel Maturino Resendiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (Born 1959) |
| 27th of June 2007 | DEATH | Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (Born 1979) |
| 27th of June 2007 | DEATH | Dragutin Tadijanovic, Croatian poet (Born 1905) |
| 27th of June 2007 | DEATH | William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (Born 1920) |
| 27th of June 2008 | DEATH | Michael Turner, American comic book artist (Born 1971) |
| 27th of June 2008 | DEATH | Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshall (Born 1914) |
| 27th of June 2009 | DEATH | Gale Storm, TV Personality (Born 1922) |
| 27th of June 2009 | DEATH | Fayette Pinkney, African American singer (The Three Degrees) (Born 1948) |