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Events on the 27th of June in history

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27 Jun 0678 St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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27 Jun 1358 Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
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27 Jun 1497 Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
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27 Jun 1524 Earl Henry III of Nassau weds Mencia de Medoza, 16-years old marquess
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27 Jun 1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain
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27 Jun 1556 The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
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27 Jun 1652 New Amsterdam (now NYC) passes 1st speed limit law in US
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27 Jun 1693 1st sea battle of Lagos: England and Holland vs. France
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27 Jun 1693 1st woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
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27 Jun 1697 Polish parliament selects monarch August van Saksen as King
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27 Jun 1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
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27 Jun 1743 English defeat French at Dettingen
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27 Jun 1756 French fleet conquer St. Philips Castle of Minorca
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27 Jun 1759 General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
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27 Jun 1760 Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War.
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27 Jun 1778 Liberty Bell came home to Philadelphia after the British had left
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27 Jun 1806 British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
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27 Jun 1806 Buenos Aires captured by British
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27 Jun 1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn
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27 Jun 1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy
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27 Jun 1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
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27 Jun 1847 New York and Boston linked by telegraph wires
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27 Jun 1857 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia
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27 Jun 1862 Day 3 of the 7 Days-Battle of Gaines' Mill
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27 Jun 1863 Skirmish at Fairfax (Courthouse) Virginia
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27 Jun 1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia
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27 Jun 1867 Bank of California opens doors
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27 Jun 1876 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Philadelphia Athletics)
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27 Jun 1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as presidential candidate
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27 Jun 1884 J Palisa discovers asteroid #237 Coelestina
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27 Jun 1890 George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight)
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27 Jun 1893 Great stock crash on New York stock exchange
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27 Jun 1895 The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
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27 Jun 1898 The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
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27 Jun 1899 A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
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27 Jun 1903 9th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 307 at Baltusrol Golf Club - New Jersey
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27 Jun 1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin"
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27 Jun 1905 Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
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27 Jun 1909 23rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach (60 61)
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27 Jun 1909 Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in the Netherlands (Belg count De Lambert)
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27 Jun 1914 Jack Johnson beats Frank Moran in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
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27 Jun 1914 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
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27 Jun 1915 Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription
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27 Jun 1915 100
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27 Jun 1917 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service
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27 Jun 1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
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27 Jun 1927 Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the "Tanaka Memorial" is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.
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27 Jun 1929 President Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WWI
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27 Jun 1929 1st color TV demo (NYC)
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27 Jun 1930 P Parchomenko discovers asteroid #1166 Sakuntala
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27 Jun 1931 3rd Ryder Cup: US, 9-3 at Scioto Country Club - Ohio
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27 Jun 1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
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27 Jun 1939 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)
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27 Jun 1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings
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27 Jun 1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania
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27 Jun 1940 USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar
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27 Jun 1941 Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
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27 Jun 1941 Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam
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27 Jun 1941 Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
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27 Jun 1941 German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
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27 Jun 1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
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27 Jun 1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
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27 Jun 1943 Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41, 43m)
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27 Jun 1943 Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5)
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27 Jun 1944 Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies
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27 Jun 1944 Cherbourg, France captured by Allies
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27 Jun 1945 Foundation 1940-45 established
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27 Jun 1946 In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
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27 Jun 1947 WRC TV channel 4 in Washington DC (NBC) begins broadcasting
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27 Jun 1949 "Captain Video & His Video Rangers, " debut on DUMONT-TV
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27 Jun 1949 W Baade discovers asteroid #1566 Icarus
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27 Jun 1950 "Liar" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 12 performances
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27 Jun 1950 32nd PGA Championship: Chandler Harper at Scioto Country Club - Columbus, Ohio
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27 Jun 1950 North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict
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27 Jun 1950 The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
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27 Jun 1950 Pres Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
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27 Jun 1950 UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea
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27 Jun 1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
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27 Jun 1951 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1588 Descamisada
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27 Jun 1952 Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
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27 Jun 1953 Joseph Laniel appointed French Premier
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27 Jun 1954 The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
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27 Jun 1954 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.
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27 Jun 1954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)
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27 Jun 1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
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27 Jun 1955 "Julius LaRosa Show, " debuts on CBS-TV
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27 Jun 1955 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
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27 Jun 1956 Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings
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27 Jun 1957 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana and Texas
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27 Jun 1957 Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
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27 Jun 1957 390 die by Hurricane Audrey in coastal La & Tx
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27 Jun 1958 Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) New York to London
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27 Jun 1958 Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th
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27 Jun 1959 "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 performances
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27 Jun 1959 Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game
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27 Jun 1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge, Massachusetts
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27 Jun 1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
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27 Jun 1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
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27 Jun 1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
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27 Jun 1962 Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems
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27 Jun 1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
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27 Jun 1963 Bill J Kramer and Dakotas record Lennon and McCartney "I Call Your Name"
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27 Jun 1963 President Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland
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27 Jun 1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
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27 Jun 1964 "New Phil Silvers Show, " last airs on CBS-TV
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27 Jun 1964 "Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" by Die Beatles peaks at #97
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27 Jun 1964 Jan and Dean release "Little Old Lady From Pasadena"
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27 Jun 1965 Carol Mann wins LPGA Carling Golf Open
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27 Jun 1966 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows, " premieres on ABC-TV
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27 Jun 1966 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premiers
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27 Jun 1966 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2
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27 Jun 1967 Race riot in Buffalo New York (200 arrested)
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27 Jun 1968 Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague
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27 Jun 1969 Honduras / El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match
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27 Jun 1969 Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days
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27 Jun 1969 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival
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27 Jun 1969 Police raid the Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about
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27 Jun 1971 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".
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27 Jun 1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2121 Sevastopol
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27 Jun 1973 "Live & Let Die" premieres in US
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27 Jun 1973 Uruguay suspends constitution
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27 Jun 1973 The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
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27 Jun 1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
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27 Jun 1974 "Flip Wilson Show, " last airs on NBC-TV
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27 Jun 1974 US President Nixon visits USSR
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27 Jun 1974 U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
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27 Jun 1976 "Pacific Overtures" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 193 performances
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27 Jun 1976 Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda
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27 Jun 1976 Israeli raid on Entebbe, Uganda
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27 Jun 1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Invitational
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27 Jun 1976 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected President
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27 Jun 1976 Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
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27 Jun 1977 Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France
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27 Jun 1977 Willie McCovey smashes 2 HRs in inning for 2nd time (April 12, 1973)
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27 Jun 1977 France grants independence to Djibouti.
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27 Jun 1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
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27 Jun 1977 Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)
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27 Jun 1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1
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27 Jun 1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
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27 Jun 1978 US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit
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27 Jun 1979 Muhammad Ali retires as boxing champ
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27 Jun 1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
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27 Jun 1980 1st female state police graduates (NJ)
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27 Jun 1980 Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
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27 Jun 1980 US revives draft registration
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27 Jun 1980 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
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27 Jun 1980 Dodger's Jerry Reuss' no-hits SF Giants 8-0
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27 Jun 1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot
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27 Jun 1981 Cambodia adopts its constitution
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27 Jun 1981 Pamela Jenks, 21, crowned 14th Miss Black America
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27 Jun 1981 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.
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27 Jun 1982 "Play Me a Country Song" opens and closes at Virginia Theater, New York City
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27 Jun 1982 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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27 Jun 1982 STS-4 Launch (Columbia)
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27 Jun 1982 Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
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27 Jun 1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 launched
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27 Jun 1983 Mariners bat out of order against White Sox in 2nd inning
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27 Jun 1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist-
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27 Jun 1983 Maxie Anderson & Don Ida die during a balloon race
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27 Jun 1983 NASA launches space vehicle S-205
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27 Jun 1984 Fire destroys a set in "A View to the Kill"
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27 Jun 1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
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27 Jun 1985 1st hotel strike in New York
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27 Jun 1985 Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
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27 Jun 1985 U.S. Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System.
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27 Jun 1986 Robby Thompson (San Francisco) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
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27 Jun 1986 Anne White shocks Wimbeldon by wearing only a body stocking
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27 Jun 1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
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27 Jun 1986 US informs New Zealand it will not defend it against attack
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27 Jun 1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
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27 Jun 1987 Supreme Court Justice Powell retires
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27 Jun 1988 Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning
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27 Jun 1988 Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
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27 Jun 1988 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)
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27 Jun 1990 Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims
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27 Jun 1990 Jos
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27 Jun 1990 Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help
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27 Jun 1991 Emmy 18th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 12th time
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27 Jun 1991 Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
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27 Jun 1992 193rd ranked Andrei Olhovsky defeats #1 seed Jim Courier at Wimbledon
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27 Jun 1992 Daryl Gates retires as LA police chief
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27 Jun 1992 Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship
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27 Jun 1993 "Falsettos" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 487 performances
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27 Jun 1993 11th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Colbert
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27 Jun 1993 Actress Julia Roberts weds country singer Lyle Lovett
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27 Jun 1993 New York Met pitcher Anthony Young loses record 24th straight game
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27 Jun 1993 Shelley Hamlin wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
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27 Jun 1994 12th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
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27 Jun 1994 New York Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
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27 Jun 1995 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches
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27 Jun 2007 Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997.
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27 Jun 2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
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27 Jun 2008 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.
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27 Jun 2013 NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
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