27 June In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, on June 27, the day number in a year is 178 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 179. June 27 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

World Events

Important Historical Events of 27 June in the World ⚡

Year	Incident/Event
678	Saint Agatho, who later convened the Third Council of Constantinople to condemn monothelitism as heretical, began his reign as Pope.
1556	The thirteen Stratford Martyrs were burned at the stake nearLondon for their Protestant beliefs.
1571	Elizabeth I of England issued a royal charter establishingJesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of Oxford.
1693	The first women's magazine \ 'Ladies Mercury \' Ladies \ 'Mercury) was published in London.
1709	Peter Russia defeated Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of the Great Poltava.
1743	War of the Austrian Succession-In the last time that a British monarch personally led his troops into battle, George II and his forces defeated the French in Dettingen, Bavaria.
1743	War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Dattan: In Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads soldiers into battle for the first time when a British emperor commanded troops in the field.
1759	British General James Wolfe started the siege of Quebec.
1760	Anglo-Cherokee War-Cherokee warriors defeated British forcesat the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina, US.
1806	British forces took Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the River Plate. The British invasions of the River Plate were a series of unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of the Spanish colonies located around the La Plata Basin in South America (today part of Argentina and Uruguay). The invasions took place between 1806 and 1807, as part of the Napoleonic Wars, when Spain was an ally of France.
1821	New Hampton School was established in the United States of America in the state of New Hampshire.
1838	Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Chatterjee), famous novelist, "The father of modern Indian fiction" and writer of national song "Vande Mataram", was born at Katalpara near Naihati, West Bengal. Some of his writings are "Anandmath" and "Kapal Kundala". He was among the first two Bengalee Graduates.
1838	Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the author of the national anthem Vande Mataram, was born.
1844	Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. and hisbrother Hyrum were killed by an armed mob who stormed the prison wherethey were incarcerated in Carthage, Illinois.
1890	George Dixon became the first boxer.
1893	Gold calorie is found in Western Australia.
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. A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply. Electrification has many advantages but requires significant capital expenditure.
1899	A. E. J. Collins scored 628 runs not out, the highest-everrecorded score in cricket.
1903	The 19-year-old American Ida de Acosta became the first woman to fly a power plane.
1905	The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutinyagainst their oppressive officers.
1906	`Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad' established. Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad is a literary institution situated in the West Indian state of Maharashtra for the purpose of the "furtherance of Marathi language and literature". It was set up in Pune. The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature considers it as Marathi's first representative literary body.
1914	The US signed a trade treaty with Ethiopia.
1927	Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi led a conference todiscuss Japan's plans for China, out of which came the Tanaka Memorial,a strategic document detailing these plans (now believed to be aforgery).
1939	Birth of renowned musician and actor RD Burman, who has composed music in over 300 films.
1952	The Congress of Guatemala passed Decree 900, redistributingunused lands of sizes greater than 224 acres (0.9 km2) to localpeasants and having a major effect on the nation's land reform movement.
1954	The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. It was the first grid-connected nuclear power station in the world, i.e. the first nuclear reactor that produced commercial electricity, albeit at small scale. It was located at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering. The plant is also known as APS-1 Obninsk (Atomic Power Station 1 Obninsk).
1957	The Medical Research Council of Britain released a report stating that smoking can cause lung cancer. The report was based on 25 years of research.
1964	Teen Murti Bhavan, the Prime Minister's official residence, was made a Nehru Museum.
1967	First Indian made AVRO aircraft passenger Plane HS748 handed over to Indian Airlines. The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 is a medium-sized turboprop airliner originally designed by the British firm Avro. This aircraft was built under the collaboration of British AVRO and India’s Hindustan aeronautics Ltd.
1967	The world's first ATM was installed in Enfield, London.
1977	France granted freedom to Djibouti. Republic of Djibouti is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east.
1977	The former French Territory of the Afars and the Issas wasgranted independence from France and became Djibouti.
1980	81 killed in Italian plane crash in Terihins Sea.
1981	Cambodia adopted its constitution.
1982	Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4. STS-4 was the fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, and also the fourth for Space Shuttle Columbia. STS-4 was the final test flight for the shuttle; it was thereafter officially declared to be operational. Columbia carried numerous scientific payloads during the mission, as well as military missile detection systems.
1986	In Nicaragua v. United States, the International Court ofJustice ruled that the United States had violated international law bysupporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguangovernment.
1989	The International Labour Organization Convention 169, a majorbinding international convention concerning indigenous peoples, and aforerunner of the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,was adopted.
1991	Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War. It was fought between the Slovenian Territorial Defence and the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) , after Slovenia declared its independence. It lasted when the Brijuni Accords were signed.
1998	Kuala Lumpur International Airport opened in Malaysia.
2007	Gordon Brown became Prime Minister of Britain.
2008	President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe was overwhelmingly re-elected after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew a week earlier,citing violence against his party's supporters.
2008	Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corporation, resigned from his post.
2013	NASA launched the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun. The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a NASA solar observation satellite. The mission was funded through the Small Explorer program to investigate the physical conditions of the solar limb, particularly the chromosphere of the Sun.

India Events

Important Historical Events of 27 June in India ⚡

Year	Incident/Event
1838	Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Chatterjee), famous novelist, "The father of modern Indian fiction" and writer of national song "Vande Mataram", was born at Katalpara near Naihati, West Bengal. Some of his writings are "Anandmath" and "Kapal Kundala". He was among the first two Bengalee Graduates.
1906	`Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad' established. Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad is a literary institution situated in the West Indian state of Maharashtra for the purpose of the "furtherance of Marathi language and literature". It was set up in Pune. The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature considers it as Marathi's first representative literary body.
1967	First Indian made AVRO aircraft passenger Plane HS748 handed over to Indian Airlines. The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 is a medium-sized turboprop airliner originally designed by the British firm Avro. This aircraft was built under the collaboration of British AVRO and India’s Hindustan aeronautics Ltd.

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