June 27

Historic Events

2024

U.S. President Joe Biden debates former U.S. President Donald Trump. Biden's perceived poor performance leads to his withdrawal from the election on July 21. ›

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 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election, President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.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. 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. ›

1995

Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-71, the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir. ›

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. ›

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. ›

1977

Constitution for the Federation of Earth was adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria. ›

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. ›

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 is promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi secedes 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. ›

1924

The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens after five years of construction, providing a land connection for road and rail vehicles travelling between Johor and Singapore. ›

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

Amerigo Vespucci sights what is now Amapá State in Brazil. ›

678

Pope Agatho is consecrated following the death of pope Donus two months prior. ›

363

Jovian is proclaimed Roman emperor following the death of emperor Julian in the previous night. ›