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Today in History

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363Jun 27The death of Roman Emperor Julian brought an end to the Pagan Revival.
678Jun 27St. Agatho began his reign as Catholic Pope.
696Jun 27A Mayan ballcourt at Tonina was dedicated and sculptures, found in 2011, were created to commemorate the dedication.
1458Jun 27Alfonso V of Aragon died. Ferdinand I succeeded to the throne of Naples, but Pope Calixtus III declared the line of Aragon extinct and the kingdom a fief of the church.
1462Jun 27Louis XII, King of France (1498-1515), was born.
1550Jun 27Charles IX, king of France (1560-74), was born.
1580Jun 27Duke of Alba’s army occupied Portugal.
1652Jun 27New Amsterdam (later NYC) passed the 1st speed limit law in US.
1682Jun 27Charles XII (d.1718), King of Sweden (1697-1718), was born.
1693Jun 27The 1st woman’s magazine “The Ladies’ Mercury” was published in London.
1709Jun 27Russians under Peter the Great defeated the Swedes under Charles XII and Cossacks at the Battle of Poltava.
1743Jun 27King George of the English defeated the French at Dettingen, Bavaria. English armies were victorious over the French at Dettingen. This event was celebrated by Handel in his composition “Dettingen Te Deum.”
1776Jun 27Thomas Hickey, who plotted to hand George Washington over to British, was hanged.
1778Jun 27The Liberty Bell came home to Philadelphia after the British left.
1806Jun 27Buenos Aires was captured by British.
1838Jun 27Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (Anandamath), was born.
1846Jun 27New York City and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
1850Jun 27Lafcadio Hearn (d.1904), Irish-American journalist, author, was born in Greece.
1857Jun 27H. Goldschmidt discovered asteroid #45, Eugenia.
1862Jun 27Confederates broke through the Union lines at the Battle of Gaines’ Mill on the 3rd day of the Seven Days Battle in Virginia.
1863Jun 27There was a skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse in Virginia.
1864Jun 27General Sherman was repulsed by Confederates at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the Atlanta Campaign.
1867Jun 27The Bank of California opened its doors.
1869Jun 27Emma Goldman, Lithuanian born American anarchist, feminist and birth control advocate, was born. She was deported to the Soviet Union for inciting World War I draft riots in New York.
1871Jun 27The yen became the new form of currency in Japan.
1872Jun 27Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American poet and writer, was born in Dayton, Ohio. His poems include “Oak and Ivory” and “Majors and Minors.”
1884Jun 27J. Palisa discovered asteroid #237, Coelestina.
1888Jun 27Antoinette Perry, actress and director, namesake of the “Tony” Awards, was born.
1893Jun 27The New York stock market crashed.
1898Jun 27Joshua Slocum (1844-1909) became the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. His voyage began on April 24, 1895 in Boston and ended on this day at Newport, Rhode Island.
1900Jun 27Otto E. Passman (Rep-D-La, 1947-77), was born.
1902Jun 27John Steinbeck (d.1968), American author, was born. “A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill?”
1904Jun 27The 2nd Fastnet Lighthouse was completed off of southwest Ireland.
1905Jun 27The battleship Potemkin succumbed to a mutiny on the Black Sea.
1907Jun 27Valerie Cossart (d.1994), actress (The Hartmans), was born in London.
1909Jun 27Gianandrea Gavazzeni, composer, conductor, was born.
1912Jun 27Audrey Christie, actress (Dorothy-Fair Exchange), was born in Chicago, Ill.
1913Jun 27Richard Bissell, novelist and playwright, was born.
1914Jun 27US signed a treaty of commerce with Ethiopia.
1915Jun 27In Fort Yukon, Alaska, a state record 100° F (38° C) was recorded.
1917Jun 27Hank Gowdy became the 1st baseball player to enter WW I military service.
1918Jun 27Two German pilots were saved by parachutes for the first time.
1920Jun 27I.A.L. Diamond, screenwriter, was born.
1922Jun 27George Walker, composer (In Praise of Lillies), was born in Washington, DC.
1923Jun 27Paul F. Conrad, cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
1923Jun 27Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch was wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade.
1926Jun 27Frank O’Hara (d.1966), American poet, was born in Baltimore. In 1998 David Lehman published “The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets.”
1927Jun 27The U.S. Marines adopted the English bulldog as their mascot.
1929Jun 27Pres. Von Hindenburg refused to pay the German debt of WW I.
1930Jun 27H. Ross Perot, Texas billionaire, was born.
1933Jun 27Gary Crosby, son of Bing, actor (Which Way to the Front), was born.
1934Jun 27Anna Moffo, soprano (Lucia, Traviata), was born in Wayne, Penn.
1937Jun 27Joseph P. Allen IV, PhD, astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A), was born in Crawfordsville, Ind.
1938Jun 27Bruce E. Babbitt (Gov-D-AL), was born.
1940Jun 27USSR returned to the Gregorian calendar.
1942Jun 27The Allied Convoy PQ-17 left Iceland for Murmansk and Archangel. As their escorts turned away, the ships of the doomed Allied convoy PQ-17 followed orders and began to disperse in the Arctic waters.
1944Jun 27During World War II, American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans.
1945Jun 27Norma Kamali, dress designer (Costumes for the Wiz), was born in NYC.
1949Jun 27W. Baade discovered asteroid #1566, Icarus.
1950Jun 27Julia Duffy, actress (Stephanie-Newhart, Baby Talk), was born in Minneapolis, Minn.
1951Jun 27Ulf Andersson, International Chess Grandmaster (1972), was born in Sweden.
1953Jun 27Alice McDermott, writer (That Night, At Weddings and Wakes), was born.
1954Jun 27The 1st atomic power station opened near Moscow at Obninsk, Russia.
1955Jun 27Isabelle Adjani, actress (Story of Adele H, Driver, Ishtar), was born in Paris.
1956Jun 27Martin Luther King was the featured speaker at the NAACP convention held at the SF Civic Auditorium.
1957Jun 27More than 500 people were killed after Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.
1958Jun 27Cuban rebel forces kidnapped 29 US sailors and Marines and held them until Jul 18.
1959Jun 27The play, “West Side Story” closed at Winter Garden Theater in NYC after 732 performances.
1960Jun 27Chlorophyll “A” was synthesized at Cambridge, Mass.
1962Jun 27NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker took the X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m.
1963Jun 27Pres. Kennedy spent his 1st full day in Ireland.
1966Jun 27The 1st sci-fi soap opera, “Dark Shadows,” premiered.
1967Jun 27There was a race riot in Buffalo, NY, and 200 were arrested.
1968Jun 27The Czechoslovak parliament abolished censorship and provided for rehabilitation of political prisoners.
1969Jun 27The 3-day Denver Pop Festival opened. The peak attendance was estimated at 50,000.
1971Jun 27T. Smirnova, Russian born astronomer, discovered asteroid #2121, Sevastopol.
1973Jun 27Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an “enemies list” kept by the Nixon White House.
1974Jun 27Pres. Nixon arrived in Moscow for his 3rd summit. During the summit the US and Russia approved a partial atomic test ban treaty.
1975Jun 27Robert Stolz (b.1880), Austrian composer (Freuhling im Prater), died.
1976Jun 27An Air France Airbus flight AF139, from Tel Aviv to Paris, was hijacked shortly after departing Athens and taken to Uganda.
1977Jun 27The US Supreme Court struck, in Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, down state laws and bar association rules that had prohibited lawyers from advertising their fees for routine services.
1978Jun 27Soyuz 30 carried 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to the Salyut 6 space station.
1982Jun 27The Broadway show “Dancin'” closed at the Ambassador Theater after 1,774 performances.
1983Jun 27The Russian Soyuz T-9 spacecraft launched from Baikonur carrying 2 cosmonauts to the Salyut 7 space station.
1984Jun 27The US Supreme Court ended the NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts, ruling such control violated antitrust law.
1985Jun 27The U.S. House of Representatives voted to limit the use of combat troops in Nicaragua.
1986Jun 27US informed New Zealand it will not defend it against attack.
1987Jun 27The White House announced that a final analysis of two polyps removed from President Reagan’s colon showed they were benign.
1988Jun 27Fifty-seven people were killed in a train collision in Paris.
1989Jun 27President Bush, criticizing a Supreme Court decision upholding the right to desecrate the American flag as a form of political protest, called for a constitutional amendment to protect the Stars and Stripes.
1990Jun 27Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributed $8600 to help their earthquake victims.
1991Jun 27Cor Therapeutics went public and raised $15 million. In 1998 it received partial FDA clearance for Integrillin, an anti-clotting drug.
1992Jun 27Authorities found the body of kidnapped Exxon executive Sidney J. Reso buried in a makeshift grave in Bass River State Park in New Jersey. Arthur and Irene Seale, were later convicted and sentenced to prison for the crime.
1993Jun 27Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett were wed in Marion, Ind. The marriage ended in divorce.
1994Jun 27President Clinton replaced White House chief of staff Mack McLarty with budget director Leon Panetta.
1995Jun 27The space shuttle “Atlantis” blasted off on a historic flight to link up with Russia’s space station “Mir” and bring home American astronaut Norman Thagard.
1996Jun 27A report from London said that the British Library had acquired Buddhist texts that date back as early as the 2nd cent AD. The texts were believed to be part of the canon of the Sarvastivadin sect, which dominated Gandhara, now north Pakistan and east Afghanistan.
1997Jun 27It was reported that researchers have discovered the first defective gene that causes Parkinson’s disease. The mutated gene produces a defective version of the brain protein alpha synuclein.
1998Jun 27Heavy thunderstorms in the Northeast and Midwest left at least 5 people dead. The annual Ben & Jerry’s One World One Heart festival at Sugarbush, Vermont, was cancelled.
1999Jun 27Juli Inkster shot a 6-under 65 to win the LPGA Championship, becoming the second woman to win the modern career Grand Slam. The first was Pat Bradley.
2000Jun 27US House Republicans cut a deal to allow direct sales of food to Cuba for the first time in four decades.
2001Jun 27The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by one-quarter percent. to 3.75%.
2002Jun 27A US Air Force pilot was killed when his A10 “Warthog” crashed during a training mission in eastern France.
2003Jun 27The American public poured an avalanche of discontent into the new national do-not-call list (www.donotcall.gov), registering over 735,000 phone numbers on the 1st day.
2004Jun 27In Lithuania Valdas Adamkus won the 2nd round of elections against center-left candidate Kazimira Prunskiene.
2005Jun 27The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Kentucky cannot display framed copies of the Ten Commandments in county courthouses, and allowed the Texas statehouse to keep the commandments as part of a display on its grounds.
2006Jun 27A constitutional amendment to ban desecration of the American flag died in a US Senate cliffhanger, falling one vote short of the 67 needed to send it to states for ratification.
2007Jun 27Don Harvey and his wife, Joyce, of Oklahoma won a $105.8 million Powerball lottery. They chose to receive a $33.3 million lump sum after taxes instead of the full amount paid out over 29 years.
2008Jun 27Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton began their joint Democratic campaign In Unity, NH.
2009Jun 27In Los Angeles County a gunman opened fire outside a restaurant in Pico Rivera during a fundraiser by the motorcycle group know as the Old School Riders. 3 people were killed and 7 others injured.
2010Jun 27San Francisco held its 40th annual Gay Pride Parade undeterred by a fatal shooting the previous evening in the Castro neighborhood.
2011Jun 27The US Supreme Court refused to let California regulate the sale or rental of violent video games to children, saying governments do not have the power to “restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed” despite complaints about graphic violence.
2012Jun 27The US FDA approved Arena Pharmaceuticals’ anti-obesity pill Belviq, the first weight loss drug approved since 1999.
2013Jun 27Pres. Obama began an 8-day trip to Africa with a visit to Senegal.
2014Jun 27The United States announced its intention to join an international treaty banning land mines, without setting a time frame while working through possible complications on the Korean Peninsula.
 Source: Timelines of History 

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