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June 27
Events - 678 - Saint Agatho begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
- 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik founded
- 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
- 1743 - War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally led troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
- 1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
- 1806 - The British capture Buenos Aires during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
- 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr. was murdered at the Carthage, Illinois jail, along with his brother, Hyrum Smith, by a mob.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
- 1867 - The Bank of California is created.
- 1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
- 1898 - The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
- 1905 - (June 14 according to the Julian calendar): Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein's classic film on the subject, The Battleship Potemkin).
- 1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
- 1953 - Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1954 - The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
- 1957 - Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
- 1966 - The first broadcast of Dark Shadows is aired on ABC-TV.
- 1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
- 1973 - The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup.*
- 1974 - U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
- 1976 - Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
- 1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti.
- 1979 - Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing.
- 1980 - A commercial DC-9 (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870) crashes near Ustica, Italy, killing 81
- 1981 - First Paintball Match Was Held
- 1984 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
- 1985 - U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
- 1986 - The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States.
- 1988 - 59 are killed and 55 are injured as a runaway train in Gare de Lyon, France plows into a packed rush-hour train.
- 1991 - Slovenia, after declaring independence two days previous, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
- 1997 - President Rahmonov, UTO leader Said Abdullah Nuri, and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General Gerd Merrem signed the "General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan" and the "Moscow Protocol" on 27 June 1997 in Moscow, Russia, ending the war.[5]
- 1998 - Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia.
- 2001 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
- 2001 - Pope John Paul II beatified 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification took place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
- 2003 - The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolled almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
- 2005 - AMD files broad antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
- 2007 - Tony Blair formally tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to Queen Elizabeth II. Gordon Brown is his successor.
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