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What Happened on June 27th This Day in History

Year	Name
2017	A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.
2015	Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.
2014	At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
2013	NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
2008	In a highly scrutinized election, President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
2007	Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. His Chancellor, Gordon Brown succeeds him.
2007	The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
1994	Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
1991	Two days after it had declared independence, Slovenia is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
1988	The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.
1988	Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.[5][6][7]
1982	Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
1981	The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 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.
1980	The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.
1977	France grants independence to Djibouti.
1976	Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PFLP and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
1974	U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
1973	The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
1957	Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
1954	The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1954	The 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.
1950	The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1946	In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
1944	World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese.
1941	Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
1941	World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
1928	The Rovaniemi township decree was promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi seceded from the old rural municipality as its own market town on January 1, 1929.
1927	Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
1914	The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.
1905	During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
1898	The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1895	The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1864	American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign.
1844	Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1806	British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.
1760	Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
1743	In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
1556	The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
1499	Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coast south of Cape Cassipore.
1497	Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
1358	The Republic of Ragusa is founded.

Famous People Born on June 27

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Year	Name
1945	Norma Kamali, American fashion designer
1936	Shirley Anne Field, English actress
1945	Joey Covington, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 2013)
1960	Robert King, English harpsichordist and conductor
1964	Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter
1988	Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast
1922	George Walker, American composer (d. 2018)
1872	Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1906)
1912	E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat (d. 2016)
1914	Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1988)

Famous People Deaths On June 27

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Date	Name
1672	Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (b. 1597)
1844	Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
1975	G.I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1886)
2004	George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
1162	Odo II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1986	George Nēpia, New Zealand rugby player and referee (b. 1905)
1627	John Hayward, English historian, journalist, and politician (b. 1564)
2007	William Hutt, Canadian actor (b. 1920)
1999	Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
2006	Eileen Barton, American singer (b. 1924)