Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
73291June 27Event1941 – German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
73292June 27Event1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
73293June 27Event1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
73294June 27Event1952 – Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
73295June 27Event1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
73296June 27Event1954 – 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.
73297June 27Event1957 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
73298June 27Event1971 – 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".
73299June 27Event1973 – The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
73300June 27Event1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
73301June 27Event1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
73302June 27Event1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
73303June 27Event1980 – Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while en route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
73304June 27Event1981 – 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.
73305June 27Event1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
73306June 27Event1985 – U.S. Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System.
73307June 27Event1988 – Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
73308June 27Event1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
73309June 27Event2007 – Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997.
73310June 27Event2007 – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
73311June 27Event2008 – 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.
73312June 27Event2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
73313June 27Event2014 – At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
73314June 27Event2015 – A midair explosion from flammable powder at a recreational water park in Taiwan injures at least 510 people with about 183 in serious condition in intensive care.
73315June 27Birth1040 – Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
73316June 27Birth1350 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1425)
73317June 27Birth1462 – Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
73318June 27Birth1550 – Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
73319June 27Birth1696 – William Pepperrell, American merchant and soldier (d. 1759)
73320June 27Birth1717 – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (d. 1799)

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