About June 27

June 27, 2025 is the 178th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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 235 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 27

  • 1358 –
    Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
  • 1497 –
    Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
  • 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.
  • 1806 –
    British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
  • 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.
  • 1905 –
    Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
  • 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 world’s first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
  • 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”.
  • 1973 –
    The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
  • 1976 –
    Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
  • 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.
  • 1988 –
    Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
  • 1989 –
    The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted.
  • 1991 –
    Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
  • 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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