About June 27
June 27, 2024 is the 179th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 216 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 27
- 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 leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
- 1759 –General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
- 1844 –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.
- 1895 –The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
- 1898 –The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
- 1899 –A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
- 1905 –Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
- 1941 –Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
- 1946 –In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
- 1950 –The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
- 1954 –The 1954 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.
- 1967 –The world’s first ATM is installed in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom.
- 1971 –After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the “Church of Rock and Roll”.
- 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.
- 1981 –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.
- 1982 –Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
- 1989 –The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted.
- 2007 –The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
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