SomeFacts | June 27

On this day - June 27

1499 — Amerigo Vespucci sights what is now Amapá State in Brazil.

1556 — The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near ...

1743 — In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last ...

1760 — Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at ...

1806 — British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the ...

1844 — Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and ...

1864 — American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces ...

1895 — The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's ...

1898 — The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by ...

1905 — During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard ...

1914 — The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is ...

1924 — The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens after five years of ...

1927 — Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day ...

1928 — The Rovaniemi township decree is promulgated, as a result of ...

1941 — World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok ...

1941 — Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in ...

1944 — World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be ...

1946 — In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada ...

1950 — The United States decides to send troops to fight in the ...

1954 — The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and ...

1954 — The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first ...

1957 — Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana ...

1973 — The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves ...

1974 — U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.

1976 — Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en ...

1977 — Constitution for the Federation of Earth was adopted by the ...

1977 — France grants independence to Djibouti.

1980 — The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in ...

1981 — The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issues ...

1982 — Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center ...

1988 — Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill ...

1988 — The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 ...

1991 — Two days after it had declared independence, Slovenia is ...

1994 — Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in ...

1995 — Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-71, the first space ...

2007 — The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo ...

2007 — Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he ...

2008 — In a highly scrutinized election, President of Zimbabwe Robert ...

2013 — NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space ...

2014 — At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of ...

2015 — Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational ...

2017 — A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware ...

2024 — U.S. President Joe Biden debates former U.S. President Donald ...