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Today in History for 27th June 2015
Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 198
678 - St Agatho begins his reign as
Catholic Pope
1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is
founded
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims
California for Spain
1580 - Duke of Alva's army occupies Portugal
1652 - New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America
1693 - 1st sea battle of Lagos: a French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeated an Anglo-
Dutch fleet under George Rooke
1693 - 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
1697 - Polish parliament selects monarch August of Saxony as king
1709 - Peter the Great of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1743 - War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain
personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch would command troops in the
field.
1756 - French fleet conquer St Philips Castle of Minorca
1759 - General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1778 - Liberty Bell came home to Philaelphia after the British departure
British Army Officer James Wolfe
1806 - Buenos Aires captured by British
1833 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at
Canterbury Conn
1847 - New York Boston linked by telegraph wires
1857 - Bibighar massacre of 120 British women and children following the seige of Cawnpore
1857 - James Donnelly becomes engaged in a drunken brawl with Patrick Farrell, who suffers a fatal
blow to the head. Farrell dies two days later, which makes James Donnelly a wanted man and draws
the Donnelly family into the notorious feud
1862 - -28] Battle at Garnett's/Golding's Farms, Virginia
1862 - Battle of Gaines' Mill, VA (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3
1863 - Skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain GA
Squatter James Donnelly
1867 - Bank of California opens doors
1876 - 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Phila Athletics)
1876 - Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies attack Motlousi in Matabeleland
1890 - George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight)
1893 - Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
1899 - 16th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Blanche Hillyard beats C Sterry (6-2 6-3)
1899 - 23rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Reginald Doherty beats Arthur Gore (1-6 4-6 6-3 6-3 6-3)
1903 - 9th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 307 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1905 - Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin" and sail for Odessa
1909 - 23rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach (6-0 6-1)
1909 - Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert)
1914 - Jack Johnson beats Frank Moran in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1914 - US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
1915 - 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)
1915 - Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription
1917 - 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service
1917 - Venizelos takes over as Prime Minister of Greece and severs relations with Central Powers,
bringing Greece onside with the Allies in WWI
1922 - Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
1923 - Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-
4B biplane
1929 - 1st color TV demo (NYC)
1929 - President Paul Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I
1931 - 3rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Scioto Country Club (Columbus, Ohio, US)
1933 - 4th Ryder Cup: Great Britain wins, 6½-5½ at Southport Ainsdale, England
1934 - Federal Savings Loan Association created
1935 - Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1936 - 71st British Golf Open: Alf Padgham shoots a 287 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club
1939 - 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)
1939 - Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings
1939 - Headley scores a cricket century in each innings v England at Lord's
1940 - Soviet Army attacks Romania
1940 - USSR returns to Gregorian calendar
1941 - Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
1941 - Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam
1942 - FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
1942 - PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
1943 - Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m)
1943 - Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5)
1944 - Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies
1945 - Foundation 1940-45 established
1947 - 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1947 - WRC TV channel 4 in Washington DC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - "Captain Video His Video Rangers" debut on DUMONT-TV
1950 - "Liar" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 12 performances
1950 - 32nd PGA Championship: Chandler Harper at Scioto CC Columbus Ohio
1950 - US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
33rd US President Harry Truman
1950 - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman
orders Air Force Navy into Korean conflict
1950 - South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
1953 - Joseph Laniel appointed French premier
1954 - 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)
1954 - CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1955 - "Julius LaRosa Show" debuts on CBS-TV
1955 - 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1956 - Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings
1957 - Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana Texas
1957 - The British Medical Research Council publishes a report suggesting a direct link between
smoking and lung cancer.
1958 - Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th
1958 - Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) NY to London
1959 - "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 perfs
LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright
1959 - 14th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1959 - Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game
1960 - British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
1960 - Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1960 - Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
1961 - Ghana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
1962 - Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems
1962 - In South Africa, the General Law Amendment Act (Sabotage Act) No 76 commences,
increasing the state president's power to declare organisations unlawful and to add further
restrictions to banning orders
1963 - Bill J Kramer Dakotas record Lennon McCartney "I Call Your Name"
1963 - US President John Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland
1963 - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
1963 - Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but Phillie centerfielder Tony Gonzalez's error ends his
record 205 consecutive errorless games
1964 - "New Phil Silvers Show" last airs on CBS-TV
1964 - "Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" by Die Beatles peaks at #97
1964 - Jan Dean release "Little Old Lady From Pasadena"
1965 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Carling Golf Open
1966 - 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV
1966 - 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 212
1040 - King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350 - Manuel II Palaiologos, Eastern Roman Emperor
1462 - Louis XII, the Just, King of France (1498-1515)
1550 - Charles IX, King of France (1560-74)
1615 - Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter
1696 - William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)
1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
1718 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
1745 - Johann Nepomuk Went, composer
1787 - Thomas Say, USA, American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology, born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1789 - Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer
1805 - Stephen Elvey, composer
1808 - Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide)
1809 - Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member
1812 - John Pike Hullah, composer
1819 - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer
1821 - August Conradi, composer
1828 - Junius Daniel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
1833 - Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
1838 - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (Anandamath)
1838 - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
1846 - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member
1849 - Harriet Hubbard Ayer, beauty cream maufacturer expert/columnist
1850 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke)
1850 - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer
1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, US, journalist/author (Chita)
1850 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
1859 - Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You)
1862 - May Irwin, US comedienne/singer (Hot Time in the Old Town)
1869 - Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth)
1869 - Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961)
1869 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(d. 1941)
Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872)
1872 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet/novelist (Oak Ivory)
1878 - Jean François van Royen, Dutch bibliophile/secretary-general of PTT
1880 - Helen Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many
1882 - Eduard Spranger, German psychologist/educator
1884 - Forrester Harvey, Ireland, actor (Tarzan, Chump at Oxford)
1884 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (La psychanalyse du feu)
1885 - Arthur Harmat, composer
1886 - Charles Macartney, cricketer (Governor-General)
1888 - Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946br />1888 - Lewis Bernstein Namier,
English historian (d. 1960)
1889 - Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor
1889 - Moroni Olsen, Ogden UT, actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White)
1892 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985)
1896 - Franciscus J Feron, vicaris-general of Roermond
Author Helen Keller (1880)
1898 - Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russ/Aust author (Students)
1898 - Tibor Harsanyi, composer
1899 - Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
1900 - Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77)
1905 - Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher (50 years in 1 room school in SC)
1906 - Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy)
1906 - Vernon P Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd)
1907 - John McIntire, Spokane WA, actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian)
1907 - Valerie Cossart, actress (Hartmans), born in London, England
1908 - Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (De Damrakkertjes)
1908 - William Eric David Davis, broadcaster
1908 - João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)
1909 - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, composer
1910 - Karel Reiner, composer
1911 - Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US, 3 year old who drowned on Lusitania
1911 - Paul Eekman, Flemish RC politician (1964- )
1911 - V K Narayana Menon, composer
1912 - Audrey Christie, actress (Dorothy-Fair Exchange), born in Chicago, Illinois
1913 - Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player (1941-57)
1914 - Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor/writer (Farce Major)
1914 - Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament (1948-87))
1914 - Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)
1915 - Hendrik W van Leeuwen, musician
1916 - Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer
1916 - Hallvard Olav Johnsen, composer
1917 - K M Rangnekar, cricketer (batted in 3 Tests India v Australia 1947-48)
1917 - Ronald George Hayward, political manager
1918 - Adolph Kiefer, US, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1936)
1920 - I A L Diamond, screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-Apartment)
1921 - G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA)
1921 - Muriel Pavlow, British actress
1922 - George Theophilus Walker, Washington DC, composer (Praise of Lillies)
1922 - Herbert Ziergiebel, writer
1924 - Paul F Conrad, US cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1924 - Bob Appleyard, cricketer (superb England off-spinner, brief career)
1924 - Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer
1925 - Jerome "Doc" Pomus, rocker
1926 - Frank O'Hara, writer
1927 - Bob Keeshan, Lynbrook NY, aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle (Good Morning)
1927 - Peter Bayliss, Thames England, actor (From Russia With Love)
1927 - Robert Casey, actor (Henry-Aldrich Family Show), born in Rochester, New York
1928 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1929 - William Afflis, American wrestler (d. 1991)
1930 - H Ross Perot, Texas, billionaire/presidental candidate (1992)
1930 - Tamio Kono, weightlifting (Oly-gold-52, 56, 60), born in Sacramento, California
1931 - Alojz Srebotnjak, composer
1931 - Charles Bronfman, CEO (Seagrams, Montreal Expos)
1931 - Ryszard Kwiatkowski, composer
1932 - Hugh Wood, composer
1932 - Joachim Wohlgemuth, writer
1932 - Anna Moffo, Wayne Penn, US soprano (Adventurers)
1932 - Eddie Kasko, baseball player
1932 - Magali Noël, French actress
1935 - Laurent Terzieff, Paris, actor (Head Over Heels, Milky Way)
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 12 of 12
1524 - Earl Henry III of Nassau weds Mencia de Medoza, 16-years old marquess
Engineer Jack Kilby (1948)
1948 - Inventor Jack Kilby (24) weds Barbara Annegers
1964 - Broadway musical actress-singer Ethel Merman (56) weds academy award-winning actor
Ernest Borgnine (47) in Beverly Hills, California
1992 - "One Life to Live" actress Catherine Hickland (36) weds actor Michael E. Knight (33)
1992 - Singer-songwriter Andrea Bocelli (34) weds Enrica Cenzatti
1993 - Actress Julia Roberts (25) weds country singer Lyle Lovett (36) at St. James Lutheran Church
in Marion, Indiana
1998 - Prince Michael of Greece daughter Princess Alexandra (29) weds perfume executive Nicolas
Mirzayantz (37) in Torcello Island
1998 - The "Murphy Brown" actress Faith Ford (33) weds personal trainer and writer Campion
Murphy (35) on Clint Eastwood's 22-acre Mission Ranch in Carmel, California
Actress Julia Roberts (1993)
2005 - "The Young and The Restless" actress Melody Thomas Scott (49) weds supervising producer
of the CBS daytime drama Edward J. Scott (60) for the second time in Las Vegas, Nevada
2009 - "Playboy Playmate" model Kendra Wilkinson (24) weds NFL player beau Hank Baskett (26) at
the Playboy Mansion in Bel Air, California
2009 - Rocker Eddie Van Halen (54) weds publicist Janie Liszewski (39) at his seven-acre estate in
the hills above Studio City, California
2011 - Actress America Ferrera (28) weds actor and director Ryan Piers Williams (31) in New York
Famous Divorces
Divorces 1 - 1 of 1
2007 - Former Playboy playmate and Baywatch actress Donna D'Errico (38) divorces Motley Crue
bassist Nikki Sixx (48) due to irreconcilable differences after 9 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 114
444 - Cyrillus van Alexandria, patriarch of Alexandria, dies
1137 - Guigo de Castro, [Venerabilis], 5th prior of Grande Chartreuse, dies
1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1296 - Floris V, count of Holland Zeeland, dies
King Alfonso V of Aragon (1458)
1458 - Alfonso V, King of Aragon/Sicily/Naples (Alfonso I), dies
1543 - Agnolo Firenzuola, [Giovannini], Ital monk (De golden ezel), dies
1574 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539)
1627 - John Hayward, English historian
1638 - Lukaris Cyrillus, patriarch of Alexandria/Constantinople, dies
1641 - Michiel Jansz of Mierevelt, royal painter, dies at 74
1654 - Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), dies at 67
1672 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)
1679 - Pablo Bruna, composer, dies at 68
1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
1757 - Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant, dies at 59
1773 - Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706)
1776 - Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed
1785 - Egbert de Free Temminck, Amsterdam regent, dies at 84
1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1814 - Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer, dies at 61
1827 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
1829 - James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute
1829 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer, dies at 64
Mathematician Sophie Germain (1831)
1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician, dies at 55
1832 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, composer, dies at 72
1839 - Ranjit Singh, gov of Lahore, dies
1844 - Hyrum Smith, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob in Carthage Ill
1844 - Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob at 38
1848 - Denis-Auguste Affre, archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death at 54
1848 - Zschokke, writer, dies
1859 - Jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-36), dies at 69
1862 - Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35
1863 - Martin E Green, Confederate brig-general, shot dead at 38
1864 - Charles Garrison Harker, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle at 26
1876 - Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81
1889 - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies
1889 - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer, dies at 50
Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr (1844)
1907 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1912 - George Bonnor, cricketer (once ran three before he was caught), dies
1917 - Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School), dies at 79
1934 - Max Pallenberg, Austria actor (Brave Suender), dies in air crash at 56
1935 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1944 - Werner Wehrli, composer, dies at 52
1944 - Milan Hod?a, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
1948 - George Templeton Strong, composer, dies at 92
1950 - Milada Horakova, Czech advocate/anti fascist, hanged
1952 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
1954 - Francis L Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 83
1957 - Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine), dies at 48
1958 - Robert Greig, actor (Devil Doll, Indian Love Call), dies at 78
1960 - Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain dies at 69
1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1961 - Paul (II) Guilfoyle, actor (Apache, Final Anaylsis), dies at 58
1962 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
1964 - Daniel Lazarus, composer, dies at 65
1965 - Anthony Veiller, writer, dies at 62
1966 - Arthur D Waley, [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies
1968 - Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies
1969 - Richard Vance Maxfield, composer, dies at 42
1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1971 - Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53
1973 - Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
1973 - Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at 73
1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, percussionist (T-Rex), dies at 31
1982 - Jack Mullaney, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time), dies at 49
1983 - Don Ida, balloonists, dies during a race
1983 - Maxie Anderson, balloonists, dies during a race
1986 - Don Rogers, of Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning
1986 - Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies
1986 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1986 - Joe Maphis, American country music guitarist dies aged 65
1988 - Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (High Falcon), dies at 88
1989 - Alfred J Ayer, English philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies
1989 - Jack Beutel, actor (The Outlaw), dies
1991 - Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered
1991 - Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister), dies
1991 - Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
1992 - Allen James, vocalist/actor (Show Boat), dies of lung cancer at 84
1992 - Sandy Amoros, Bkln Dodger, dies at 62 of pneumonia
1992 - Stefanie Ann Sargent, guitarist (7 Year Bitch), dies of overdose at 24
1993 - Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40
1994 - Jeremy Brooks, writer, dies at 67
1995 - Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician, dies at 70
1995 - Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator, dies at 59
1995 - Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 61
1996 - Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer, dies at 87
1996 - Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier, dies at 85
1998 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (b. 1935)
1999 - George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
Actor Jack Lemmon (2001)
2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
2002 - John Entwistle, bass-player with The Who dies in his sleep of a heart attack in his Las Vegas
hotel room aged 57
2003 - David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)
2004 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
2005 - Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
2005 - Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector
2005 - John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
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Today in History for 27th June 2015

  • 1. Today in History for 27th June 2015 Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 198 678 - St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is founded 1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain 1580 - Duke of Alva's army occupies Portugal 1652 - New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America 1693 - 1st sea battle of Lagos: a French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeated an Anglo- Dutch fleet under George Rooke 1693 - 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London) 1697 - Polish parliament selects monarch August of Saxony as king 1709 - Peter the Great of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. 1743 - War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch would command troops in the field. 1756 - French fleet conquer St Philips Castle of Minorca 1759 - General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec. 1778 - Liberty Bell came home to Philaelphia after the British departure
  • 2. British Army Officer James Wolfe 1806 - Buenos Aires captured by British 1833 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn 1847 - New York Boston linked by telegraph wires 1857 - Bibighar massacre of 120 British women and children following the seige of Cawnpore 1857 - James Donnelly becomes engaged in a drunken brawl with Patrick Farrell, who suffers a fatal blow to the head. Farrell dies two days later, which makes James Donnelly a wanted man and draws the Donnelly family into the notorious feud 1862 - -28] Battle at Garnett's/Golding's Farms, Virginia 1862 - Battle of Gaines' Mill, VA (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3 1863 - Skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia 1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain GA Squatter James Donnelly 1867 - Bank of California opens doors 1876 - 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Phila Athletics) 1876 - Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate
  • 3. 1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies attack Motlousi in Matabeleland 1890 - George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight) 1893 - Great stock crash on NY stock exchange 1899 - 16th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Blanche Hillyard beats C Sterry (6-2 6-3) 1899 - 23rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Reginald Doherty beats Arthur Gore (1-6 4-6 6-3 6-3 6-3) 1903 - 9th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 307 at Baltusrol GC NJ 1905 - Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin" and sail for Odessa 1909 - 23rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach (6-0 6-1) 1909 - Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert) 1914 - Jack Johnson beats Frank Moran in 20 for heavyweight boxing title 1914 - US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia 1915 - 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record) 1915 - Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription 1917 - 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service 1917 - Venizelos takes over as Prime Minister of Greece and severs relations with Central Powers, bringing Greece onside with the Allies in WWI 1922 - Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon) 1923 - Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH- 4B biplane 1929 - 1st color TV demo (NYC) 1929 - President Paul Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I 1931 - 3rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Scioto Country Club (Columbus, Ohio, US) 1933 - 4th Ryder Cup: Great Britain wins, 6½-5½ at Southport Ainsdale, England 1934 - Federal Savings Loan Association created 1935 - Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ 1936 - 71st British Golf Open: Alf Padgham shoots a 287 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1939 - 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)
  • 4. 1939 - Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings 1939 - Headley scores a cricket century in each innings v England at Lord's 1940 - Soviet Army attacks Romania 1940 - USSR returns to Gregorian calendar 1941 - Bialystok Poland falls to Germany 1941 - Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam 1942 - FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island 1942 - PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk 1943 - Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m) 1943 - Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5) 1944 - Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies 1945 - Foundation 1940-45 established 1947 - 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands 1947 - WRC TV channel 4 in Washington DC (NBC) begins broadcasting 1949 - "Captain Video His Video Rangers" debut on DUMONT-TV 1950 - "Liar" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 12 performances 1950 - 32nd PGA Championship: Chandler Harper at Scioto CC Columbus Ohio 1950 - US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam 33rd US President Harry Truman 1950 - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders Air Force Navy into Korean conflict
  • 5. 1950 - South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea 1953 - Joseph Laniel appointed French premier 1954 - 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia) 1954 - CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala 1955 - "Julius LaRosa Show" debuts on CBS-TV 1955 - 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois) 1956 - Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings 1957 - Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana Texas 1957 - The British Medical Research Council publishes a report suggesting a direct link between smoking and lung cancer. 1958 - Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th 1958 - Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) NY to London 1959 - "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 perfs LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright 1959 - 14th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright 1959 - Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game 1960 - British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia 1960 - Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1960 - Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens 1961 - Ghana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa 1962 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
  • 6. 1962 - Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems 1962 - In South Africa, the General Law Amendment Act (Sabotage Act) No 76 commences, increasing the state president's power to declare organisations unlawful and to add further restrictions to banning orders 1963 - Bill J Kramer Dakotas record Lennon McCartney "I Call Your Name" 1963 - US President John Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland 1963 - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m 1963 - Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but Phillie centerfielder Tony Gonzalez's error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games 1964 - "New Phil Silvers Show" last airs on CBS-TV 1964 - "Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" by Die Beatles peaks at #97 1964 - Jan Dean release "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" 1965 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Carling Golf Open 1966 - 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV 1966 - 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2 Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 212 1040 - King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095) 1350 - Manuel II Palaiologos, Eastern Roman Emperor 1462 - Louis XII, the Just, King of France (1498-1515) 1550 - Charles IX, King of France (1560-74) 1615 - Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter 1696 - William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759) 1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799) 1718 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer 1745 - Johann Nepomuk Went, composer 1787 - Thomas Say, USA, American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 7. 1789 - Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer 1805 - Stephen Elvey, composer 1808 - Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide) 1809 - Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member 1812 - John Pike Hullah, composer 1819 - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer 1821 - August Conradi, composer 1828 - Junius Daniel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864) 1833 - Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer 1838 - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (Anandamath) 1838 - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914) 1846 - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member 1849 - Harriet Hubbard Ayer, beauty cream maufacturer expert/columnist 1850 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke) 1850 - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer 1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, US, journalist/author (Chita) 1850 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919) 1859 - Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You) 1862 - May Irwin, US comedienne/singer (Hot Time in the Old Town) 1869 - Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth) 1869 - Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961) 1869 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
  • 8. Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872) 1872 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet/novelist (Oak Ivory) 1878 - Jean François van Royen, Dutch bibliophile/secretary-general of PTT 1880 - Helen Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many 1882 - Eduard Spranger, German psychologist/educator 1884 - Forrester Harvey, Ireland, actor (Tarzan, Chump at Oxford) 1884 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (La psychanalyse du feu) 1885 - Arthur Harmat, composer 1886 - Charles Macartney, cricketer (Governor-General) 1888 - Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946br />1888 - Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960) 1889 - Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor 1889 - Moroni Olsen, Ogden UT, actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White) 1892 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985) 1896 - Franciscus J Feron, vicaris-general of Roermond Author Helen Keller (1880)
  • 9. 1898 - Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russ/Aust author (Students) 1898 - Tibor Harsanyi, composer 1899 - Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981) 1900 - Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77) 1905 - Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher (50 years in 1 room school in SC) 1906 - Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy) 1906 - Vernon P Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd) 1907 - John McIntire, Spokane WA, actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian) 1907 - Valerie Cossart, actress (Hartmans), born in London, England 1908 - Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (De Damrakkertjes) 1908 - William Eric David Davis, broadcaster 1908 - João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967) 1909 - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, composer 1910 - Karel Reiner, composer 1911 - Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US, 3 year old who drowned on Lusitania 1911 - Paul Eekman, Flemish RC politician (1964- ) 1911 - V K Narayana Menon, composer 1912 - Audrey Christie, actress (Dorothy-Fair Exchange), born in Chicago, Illinois 1913 - Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player (1941-57) 1914 - Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor/writer (Farce Major) 1914 - Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament (1948-87)) 1914 - Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981) 1915 - Hendrik W van Leeuwen, musician 1916 - Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer 1916 - Hallvard Olav Johnsen, composer 1917 - K M Rangnekar, cricketer (batted in 3 Tests India v Australia 1947-48)
  • 10. 1917 - Ronald George Hayward, political manager 1918 - Adolph Kiefer, US, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1936) 1920 - I A L Diamond, screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-Apartment) 1921 - G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA) 1921 - Muriel Pavlow, British actress 1922 - George Theophilus Walker, Washington DC, composer (Praise of Lillies) 1922 - Herbert Ziergiebel, writer 1924 - Paul F Conrad, US cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1924 - Bob Appleyard, cricketer (superb England off-spinner, brief career) 1924 - Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer 1925 - Jerome "Doc" Pomus, rocker 1926 - Frank O'Hara, writer 1927 - Bob Keeshan, Lynbrook NY, aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle (Good Morning) 1927 - Peter Bayliss, Thames England, actor (From Russia With Love) 1927 - Robert Casey, actor (Henry-Aldrich Family Show), born in Rochester, New York 1928 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995) 1929 - William Afflis, American wrestler (d. 1991) 1930 - H Ross Perot, Texas, billionaire/presidental candidate (1992) 1930 - Tamio Kono, weightlifting (Oly-gold-52, 56, 60), born in Sacramento, California 1931 - Alojz Srebotnjak, composer 1931 - Charles Bronfman, CEO (Seagrams, Montreal Expos) 1931 - Ryszard Kwiatkowski, composer 1932 - Hugh Wood, composer 1932 - Joachim Wohlgemuth, writer 1932 - Anna Moffo, Wayne Penn, US soprano (Adventurers) 1932 - Eddie Kasko, baseball player
  • 11. 1932 - Magali Noël, French actress 1935 - Laurent Terzieff, Paris, actor (Head Over Heels, Milky Way) Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 12 of 12 1524 - Earl Henry III of Nassau weds Mencia de Medoza, 16-years old marquess Engineer Jack Kilby (1948) 1948 - Inventor Jack Kilby (24) weds Barbara Annegers 1964 - Broadway musical actress-singer Ethel Merman (56) weds academy award-winning actor Ernest Borgnine (47) in Beverly Hills, California 1992 - "One Life to Live" actress Catherine Hickland (36) weds actor Michael E. Knight (33) 1992 - Singer-songwriter Andrea Bocelli (34) weds Enrica Cenzatti 1993 - Actress Julia Roberts (25) weds country singer Lyle Lovett (36) at St. James Lutheran Church in Marion, Indiana 1998 - Prince Michael of Greece daughter Princess Alexandra (29) weds perfume executive Nicolas Mirzayantz (37) in Torcello Island 1998 - The "Murphy Brown" actress Faith Ford (33) weds personal trainer and writer Campion Murphy (35) on Clint Eastwood's 22-acre Mission Ranch in Carmel, California
  • 12. Actress Julia Roberts (1993) 2005 - "The Young and The Restless" actress Melody Thomas Scott (49) weds supervising producer of the CBS daytime drama Edward J. Scott (60) for the second time in Las Vegas, Nevada 2009 - "Playboy Playmate" model Kendra Wilkinson (24) weds NFL player beau Hank Baskett (26) at the Playboy Mansion in Bel Air, California 2009 - Rocker Eddie Van Halen (54) weds publicist Janie Liszewski (39) at his seven-acre estate in the hills above Studio City, California 2011 - Actress America Ferrera (28) weds actor and director Ryan Piers Williams (31) in New York Famous Divorces Divorces 1 - 1 of 1 2007 - Former Playboy playmate and Baywatch actress Donna D'Errico (38) divorces Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx (48) due to irreconcilable differences after 9 years of marriage Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 114 444 - Cyrillus van Alexandria, patriarch of Alexandria, dies 1137 - Guigo de Castro, [Venerabilis], 5th prior of Grande Chartreuse, dies 1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118) 1296 - Floris V, count of Holland Zeeland, dies
  • 13. King Alfonso V of Aragon (1458) 1458 - Alfonso V, King of Aragon/Sicily/Naples (Alfonso I), dies 1543 - Agnolo Firenzuola, [Giovannini], Ital monk (De golden ezel), dies 1574 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511) 1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539) 1627 - John Hayward, English historian 1638 - Lukaris Cyrillus, patriarch of Alexandria/Constantinople, dies 1641 - Michiel Jansz of Mierevelt, royal painter, dies at 74 1654 - Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), dies at 67 1672 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597) 1679 - Pablo Bruna, composer, dies at 68 1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639) 1757 - Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant, dies at 59 1773 - Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706) 1776 - Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed 1785 - Egbert de Free Temminck, Amsterdam regent, dies at 84 1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711) 1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715) 1814 - Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer, dies at 61 1827 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
  • 14. 1829 - James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute 1829 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer, dies at 64 Mathematician Sophie Germain (1831) 1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician, dies at 55 1832 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, composer, dies at 72 1839 - Ranjit Singh, gov of Lahore, dies 1844 - Hyrum Smith, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob in Carthage Ill 1844 - Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob at 38 1848 - Denis-Auguste Affre, archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death at 54 1848 - Zschokke, writer, dies 1859 - Jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-36), dies at 69 1862 - Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35 1863 - Martin E Green, Confederate brig-general, shot dead at 38 1864 - Charles Garrison Harker, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle at 26 1876 - Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81 1889 - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies 1889 - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer, dies at 50
  • 15. Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr (1844) 1907 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822) 1912 - George Bonnor, cricketer (once ran three before he was caught), dies 1917 - Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School), dies at 79 1934 - Max Pallenberg, Austria actor (Brave Suender), dies in air crash at 56 1935 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857) 1944 - Werner Wehrli, composer, dies at 52 1944 - Milan Hod?a, Slovak politician (b. 1878) 1948 - George Templeton Strong, composer, dies at 92 1950 - Milada Horakova, Czech advocate/anti fascist, hanged 1952 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878) 1954 - Francis L Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 83 1957 - Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine), dies at 48 1958 - Robert Greig, actor (Devil Doll, Indian Love Call), dies at 78 1960 - Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain dies at 69 1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871) 1961 - Paul (II) Guilfoyle, actor (Apache, Final Anaylsis), dies at 58 1962 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904) 1964 - Daniel Lazarus, composer, dies at 65 1965 - Anthony Veiller, writer, dies at 62
  • 16. 1966 - Arthur D Waley, [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies 1968 - Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies 1969 - Richard Vance Maxfield, composer, dies at 42 1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902) 1971 - Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53 1973 - Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82 1973 - Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at 73 1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, percussionist (T-Rex), dies at 31 1982 - Jack Mullaney, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time), dies at 49 1983 - Don Ida, balloonists, dies during a race 1983 - Maxie Anderson, balloonists, dies during a race 1986 - Don Rogers, of Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning 1986 - Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies 1986 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905) 1986 - Joe Maphis, American country music guitarist dies aged 65 1988 - Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (High Falcon), dies at 88 1989 - Alfred J Ayer, English philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies 1989 - Jack Beutel, actor (The Outlaw), dies 1991 - Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered 1991 - Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister), dies 1991 - Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921) 1992 - Allen James, vocalist/actor (Show Boat), dies of lung cancer at 84 1992 - Sandy Amoros, Bkln Dodger, dies at 62 of pneumonia 1992 - Stefanie Ann Sargent, guitarist (7 Year Bitch), dies of overdose at 24 1993 - Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40 1994 - Jeremy Brooks, writer, dies at 67
  • 17. 1995 - Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician, dies at 70 1995 - Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator, dies at 59 1995 - Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 61 1996 - Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer, dies at 87 1996 - Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier, dies at 85 1998 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (b. 1935) 1999 - George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919) 2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914) Actor Jack Lemmon (2001) 2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925) 2002 - John Entwistle, bass-player with The Who dies in his sleep of a heart attack in his Las Vegas hotel room aged 57 2003 - David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937) 2004 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968) 2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923) 2005 - Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917) 2005 - Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector 2005 - John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946) Share on Facebook http://www.historyorb.com/day/june/27