27 Juin

The 27t o Juin is the 178t day o the year (179t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 187 days ti come.

Events

1859: Remainin pairt o Basel's ceety waw

1977: Banner o Djibouti

1985: Route 66

• 1358 – Republic o Dubrovnik is foondit.
• 1844 – Joseph Smith, founder o the Mormon releegion, is killt bi a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
• 1859 – The Great Cooncil o Basel agrees tae demolish maist o its ceety waw.
• 1905 – Sailors stairt a mutiny on the Roushie battleship Potemkin.
• 1950 – The Unitit States decides tae send troops tae Korea.
• 1973 – The Preses o Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament an establishes a dictatorship.
• 1977 – Fraunce grants unthirldom tae Djibouti.
• 1979 – Muhammad Ali retires frae boxin.
• 1984 – UEFA Euro 1984: Fraunce defeats Spain 2-0 in the feenal.
• 1985 – The Unitit States' maist famous road, Route 66, loses the status o a highway.
• 1988 – The Gare de Lyon rail accident kills 56 fowk.
• 1991 – Slovenie is invadit bi Yugoslavie troops efter declarin unthirldom.
• 2007 – Gordon Brown becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick, replacin Tony Blair.
• 2008 – Robert Mugabe is controversially re-electit Preses o Zimbabwe.
• 2010 – Germany knock Ingland oot o the 2010 FIFA Warld Cup, defeatin them 4-1 in Bloemfontein, Sooth Africae.
• 2010 – Iceland legalises same-sex marriage.
• 2013 – Kevin Rudd replaces Julia Gillard as Prime Meenister o Australie.
• 2016 – Iceland defeats Ingland 2-1 in a surprise result at UEFA Euro 2016.
• 2017 – First Meenister Nicola Sturgeon postpones plans for a seicont referendum on Scots unthirldom.
• 2018 – Germany are knockit oot o the 2018 FIFA Warld Cup efter losin their feenal group gemme tae Sooth Korea, 2-0. It is their first early exit frae a FIFA Warld Cup syne 1938.
• 2019 – Mette Frederiksen becomes Prime meenister o Denmark.
• 2020 – Micheal Martin becomes Taoiseach o the Republic o Ireland as pairt o a first-ever coaleetion agreement atween Fianna Fail, Fine Gael an the Erse Green Pairty.
• 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: Indie becomes the fowert kintra tae reach 500,000 recordit cases.

Births

Helen Keller

Mary McAleese

• 1350 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1425)
• 1462 – Louis XII o Fraunce (d. 1515)
• 1550 – Charles IX o Fraunce (d. 1574)
• 1842 – Jamie Anderson, Scots gowfer (d. 1905)
• 1846 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Erse politeecian, foonder o the Erse Pairlamentar Pairty (d. 1891)
• 1869 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist an academic (d. 1941)
• 1869 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanie-American activist (d. 1940)
• 1880 – Helen Keller, American author an educator (d. 1968)
• 1930 – Ross Perot, American billionaire an politeecian (d. 2019)
• 1931 – Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch theoretical pheesicist
• 1940 – Ian Lang, Baron Lang o Monkton, Scots politeecian
• 1949 – Vera Wang, American fashion designer
• 1951 – Mary McAleese, umwhile Preses o the Republic o Ireland
• 1955 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress
• 1961 – Meera Syal, Inglis actress an writer
• 1962 – Michael Ball, Inglis sangster an actor
• 1962 – Ollanta Humala, umwhile Preses o Peru
• 1963 – Wendy Alexander, Scots politeecian, umwhile leader o the Scots Labour Pairty
• 1966 – J. J. Abrams, American actor an director
• 1971 – Dipendra o Nepal (d. 2001)
• 1975 – Tobey Maguire, American actor
• 1976 – Raul Gonzalez, Spaingie fitbawer
• 1979 – Maggie Chapman, Zimbabwe-born Scots politeecian (Scots Green Pairty)
• 1983 – Alsou, Roushie sangster-sangwriter, pianist, an actress
• 1983 – John Rankin, Scots fitbawer
• 1984 – Gokhan Inler, Swiss fitbawer
• 1985 – Svetlana Kuznetsova, Roushie tennis player
• 1985 – Nico Rosberg, German racin driver

Daiths

• 1296 – Floris V, Coont o Holland (b. 1254)
• 1574 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist, writer, airchitect an historian (b. 1511)
• 1831 – Sophie Germain, French mathemateecian an pheesicist (b. 1776)
• 1844 – Joseph Smith, American Mormon leader (b. 1805)
• 1948 – Julian Robert Lindsey, American Major General (b. 1871)
• 1991 – George MacLeod, Scots sodger an clergyman (b. 1895)
• 2001 – Tove Jansson, Finnish writer an airtist (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Shelby Foote, American historian an author (b. 1916)

Halidays

• Unthirldom Day (Djibouti)
• Seven Sleepers Day (Germany)