About June 27
June 27, 2021 is the 178th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 219 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.
- 1759 –General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
- 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.
- 1923 –Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
- 1927 –Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan’s plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the “Tanaka Memorial” is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.
- 1941 –German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 –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.
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