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History Events on June 27

By  Jade Jones  27 Jun   102 Views

History Events on June 27

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The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.

#Itavia_Flight_870

In 1980

In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.

#Battle_of_Dettingen

In 1743

France grants independence to Djibouti.

#Djibouti

In 1977

Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997.

#Tony_Blair

In 2007

The Republic of Ragusa is founded.

#Republic_of_Ragusa

In 1358

The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

#Circumnavigation

In 1898

The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.

#Obninsk_Nuclear_Power_Plant

In 1954

After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes Fillmore East in New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".

#Bill_Graham_(promoter)

In 1971

The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.

#President_of_Uruguay

In 1973

German troops capture the city of Bia?ystok during Operation Barbarossa.

#Bia?ystok

In 1941

Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.

#Space_Shuttle_Columbia

In 1982

During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.

#Russo-Japanese_War

In 1905

U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.

#President_of_the_United_States

In 1974

NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.

#NASA

In 2013

Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.

#Joseph_Smith

In 1844

Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.

#Cornwall

In 1497

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.

#Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad

In 1895

Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.

#Slovenia

In 1991

A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware begins that swamped websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.

#2017_cyberattacks_on_Ukraine

In 2017

Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.

#Battle_of_Kennesaw_Mountain

In 1864

Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.

#Hurricane_Audrey

In 1957

The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.

#Gare_de_Lyon_rail_accident

In 1988

The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.

#Korean_War

In 1950

The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.

#Stratford_Martyrs

In 1556

British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.

#Buenos_Aires

In 1806

Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.

#Prime_Minister_of_Japan

In 1927

A midair explosion from flammable powder at a recreational water park in Taiwan injures at least 510 people with about 183 in serious condition in intensive care.

In 2015

At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

In 2014

In a highly scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.

In 2008

The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

In 2007

Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

In 1994

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.

In 1981

Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.

In 1976

The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.

In 1954

Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.

In 1952

In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.

In 1946

Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Ia?i, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.

In 1941

Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War.

In 1760

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