June 27 in History

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.

A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.

Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.

At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space probe to observe the Sun.

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election, President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.

Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. Chancellor Gordon Brown succeeds him.

The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

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

Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

Two days after it had declared independence, Slovenia is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.

The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.

Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.

Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.

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.

The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.

France grants independence to Djibouti.

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

Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PFLP and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.

U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.

The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.

Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.

The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.

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.

The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.

In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.

World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese.

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.

World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.

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.

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.

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

The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.

During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.

The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

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.

American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta campaign.

Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.

British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.

Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.

In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.

The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.

Amerigo Vespucci sights what is now Amapá State in Brazil.

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

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

Kelee Ringo, American football player

Chris Olave, American football player

Will Levis, American football player

Chandler Riggs, American actor

Yordan Alvarez, Cuban baseball player

Jehyve Floyd, American basketball player

Dalton Eatherly, American livestreamer, better known as Chud the Builder

H.E.R., American singer-songwriter

Monté Morris, American basketball player

Anita Husarić, Bosnian tennis player

Johanna Talihärm, Estonian biathlete

Alberto Campbell-Staines, Australian athlete

Ahn So-hee, South Korean singer and actress

Karthika Nair, Indian actress

Oliver Stark, British actor

Bobby Wagner, American football player

Hana Birnerová, Czech tennis player

Sabino Brunello, Italian chess grandmaster

Matthew Lewis, English actor

Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast

Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer

Kate Ziegler, American swimmer

India de Beaufort, English actress

Ed Westwick, English actor

Sam Claflin, British actor

Drake Bell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Bryan Fletcher, American skier

LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter

James Hook, Welsh rugby player

Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player

Nico Rosberg, German race car driver

Aiden Blizzard, Australian cricketer

Khloé Kardashian, American model, businesswoman, and radio host

D.J. King, Canadian ice hockey player

Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer

Jim Johnson, American baseball player

Dale Steyn, South African cricketer

Nikola Rakočević, Serbian actor

Laura Dre, German-Filipina electronic musician, singer-songwriter and music producer

Andrew Embley, Australian footballer

Hugo Campagnaro, Argentinian footballer

Jennifer Goodridge, American keyboard player

Alexander Peya, Austrian tennis player

Kevin Pietersen, South African-English cricketer

Craig Terrill, American football player

Martin Bourboulon, French film director and screenwriter

Apparat, German musician

Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer

Johnny Estrada, American baseball player

Leigh Nash, American singer-songwriter

Ace Darling, American wrestler

Bianca Del Rio, American drag queen and comedian

Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer

Tobey Maguire, American actor

Daryle Ward, American baseball player

Christian Kane, American singer-songwriter and actor

Christopher O'Neill, English-American businessman

Abbath Doom Occulta, Norwegian musician

Simon Archer, English badminton player

Dawud Wharnsby, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Serginho, Brazilian footballer

Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (died 2001)

John Eales, Australian rugby player and businessman

Jim Edmonds, American baseball player and sportscaster

Jo Frost, English nanny, television personality, and author

Viktor Petrenko, Ukrainian figure skater

Kelly Ayotte, American lawyer and politician, Governor of New Hampshire

Sylvie Fréchette, Canadian swimmer and coach

George Hamilton, Northern Irish police officer

Vasiliy Kaptyukh, Belarusian discus thrower

Phil Kearns, Australian rugby player and sportscaster

J. J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Jörg Bergen, German footballer and manager

Jeff Conine, American baseball player and sportscaster

Aigars Kalvītis, Latvian politician, businessman, and former Prime Minister of Latvia

Simon Sebag Montefiore, English journalist, historian, and author

S. Manikavasagam, Malaysian politician and social activist

Óscar Vega, Spanish boxer

Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter

Chuck Person, American basketball player and coach

Wendy Alexander, Scottish politician, Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning

Johnny Benson Jr., American race car driver

Michael Ball, English actor and singer

Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor and singer

Sunanda Pushkar, India-born Canadian businesswoman (died 2014)

Craig Hodges, American basketball player and coach

Michael Mayer, American theatre director

Robert King, English harpsichordist and conductor

Jeremy Swift, English actor

Dan Jurgens, American author and illustrator

Lorrie Morgan, American singer

Lisa Germano, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1996)

Gabriella Dorio, Italian runner

Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player and politician

Isabelle Adjani, French actress

Richard Ibbotson, English admiral

Igor Gräzin, Estonian academic and politician

Alice McDermott, American novelist

Madan Bhandari, Nepalese politician (died 1993)

Ulf Andersson, Swedish chess player

Julia Duffy, American actress

Gilson Lavis, English drummer and portrait artist

Mary McAleese, Irish academic and politician, 8th President of Ireland

Vera Wang, American fashion designer

Camile Baudoin, American guitarist

Joey Covington, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2013)

Norma Kamali, American fashion designer

Will Jennings, American songwriter (died 2024)

Angela King, English environmentalist and author, co-founded Common Ground

Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (died 2019)

Ravi Batra, Indian-American economist and academic

Bruce Johnston, American singer-songwriter and producer

Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer

Danny Schechter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)

Bill Baxley, American lawyer and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama

James P. Hogan, English-Irish author (died 2010)

Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (died 1996)

Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland

R. D. Burman, Indian singer-songwriter (died 1994)

Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (died 2000)

Brereton C. Jones, American politician, 58th Governor of Kentucky (died 2023)

Bruce Babbitt, American lawyer and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior

David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Scottish lieutenant and judge

Konrad Kujau, German illustrator (died 2000)

Joseph P. Allen, American physicist and astronaut

Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician (died 2013)

Kirkpatrick Sale, American author and scholar

Lucille Clifton, American author and poet (died 2010)

Shirley Anne Field, English actress (died 2023)

Eddie Kasko, American baseball player and manager (died 2020)

Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (died 2006)

Hugh Wood, English composer (died 2021)

Charles Bronfman, Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist

Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)

Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (died 2019)

Tommy Kono, Japanese American weightlifter (died 2016)

Dick the Bruiser, American football player and wrestler (died 1991)

Peter Maas, American journalist and author (died 2001)

Rudy Perpich, American dentist and politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (died 1995)

Bob Keeshan, American actor and producer (died 2004)

Leonard Lerman, American geneticist and biologist (died 2012)

Doc Pomus, American singer-songwriter (died 1991)

Wayne Terwilliger, American second baseman, coach, and manager (died 2021)

Bob Appleyard, English cricketer and businessman (died 2015)

Jacques Berthier, French organist and composer (died 1994)

Elmo Hope, American pianist and composer (died 1967)

George Walker, American composer (died 2018)

Muriel Pavlow, English actress (died 2019)

Fernando Riera, Chilean football player and manager (died 2010)

M. Carl Holman, American author, educator, poet, and playwright (died 1988)

Amala Shankar, Indian danseuse (died 2020)

Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (died 2017)

Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (died 1998)

Grace Lee Boggs, American philosopher, author, and activist (died 2015)

John Alexander Moore, American zoologist and academic (died 2002)

Robert Aickman, English author and activist, co-founded the Inland Waterways Association (died 1981)

Helena Benitez, Filipina academic and administrator (died 2016)

Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (died 1988)

Elton Britt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1972)

Philip Guston, American painter and academic (died 1980)

Willie Mosconi, American pool player (died 1993)

E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat (died 2016)

Marion M. Magruder, American Marine officer, commander of the VMF(N)-533 squadron (died 1997)

João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian physician and author (died 1967)

John McIntire, American actor (died 1991)

Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet and painter (died 1967)

Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1976)

Merle Tuve, American geophysicist and academic (died 1982)

Dixie Brown, British boxer (died 1957)

Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (died 1981)

Paul Colin, French illustrator (died 1985)

Lewis Bernstein Namier, Polish-English historian and academic (died 1960)

Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (died 1946)

Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1958)

Arthur Lismer, English-Canadian painter known for his landscapes (died 1969)

Pierre Montet, French historian and academic (died 1966)

Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (died 1950)

Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (died 1962)

Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and academic (died 1963)

Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist (died 1968)

Heber Doust Curtis, American astronomer (died 1942)

Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1906)

Frank Rattray Lillie, American zoologist and embryologist (died 1947)

Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist (died 1961)

Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (died 1940)

Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)

John Monash, Australian engineer and general (died 1931)

May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and singer (died 1938)

Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (died 1919)

Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (died 1904)

Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (died 1891)

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (died 1894)

Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (died 1914)

Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (died 1905)

Louise von François, German author (died 1893)

Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston, American writer (died 1899)

Augustus De Morgan, English mathematician and logician (died 1871)

Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer (died 1883)

Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer and academic (died 1843)

Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (died 1799)

William Pepperrell, American merchant and soldier (died 1759)

Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein (died 1655)

Charles IX, king of France (died 1574)

Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1546)

Ernst II of Saxony, Archbishop of Magdeburg (1476–1513) (died 1513)

Louis XII, king of France (died 1515)

Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Lancastrian leader (died 1475)

Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (died 1425)

Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir (died 902)

Kinky Friedman, American country musician (born 1944)

Martin Mull, American actor (born 1943)

Joe Jackson, American manager, father of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson (born 1928)

Liz Jackson, Australian journalist and former barrister (born 1951)

William McBride, Australian obstetrician (born 1927)

Peter L. Berger, Austrian sociologist (born 1929)

Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer, actor, and screenwriter (born 1929)

Zvi Elpeleg, Polish-Israeli diplomat, author, and academic (born 1926)

Knut Helle, Norwegian historian and professor (born 1930)

Chris Squire, English musician (bass guitarist), singer and songwriter, member of the rock band Yes (born 1948)

Edmond Blanchard, Canadian jurist and politician (born 1954)

Allen Grossman, American poet, critic, and academic (born 1932)

Leslie Manigat, Haitian educator and politician, 43rd President of Haiti (born 1930)

Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (born 1919)

Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1926)

Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer (born 1964)

Ian Scott, English-New Zealand painter (born 1945)

Stan Cox, English runner (born 1918)

Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet and illustrator (born 1920)

Mike Doyle, English footballer (born 1946)

Corey Allen, American film and television actor, writer, director, and producer (born 1934)

Gale Storm, American actress (born 1922)

Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (born 1914)

William Hutt, Canadian actor (born 1920)

Eileen Barton, American singer (born 1924)

Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer (born 1960)

Shelby Foote, American historian and author (born 1916)

Ray Holmes, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1914)

John T. Walton, American businessman, co-founded the Children's Scholarship Fund (born 1946)

George Patton IV, American general (born 1923)

Darrell Russell, American race car driver (born 1968)

David Newman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)

John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, and producer (born 1944)

Robert L. J. Long, American admiral (born 1920)

Tove Jansson, Finnish author, illustrator, and painter (born 1914)

Jack Lemmon, American actor (born 1925)

Joan Sims, English actress (born 1930)

Pierre Pflimlin, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1907)

Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)

Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1935)

Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (born 1909)

Milton Subotsky, American-English screenwriter and producer (born 1921)

A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and academic (born 1910)

George Nēpia, New Zealand rugby player and referee (born 1905)

Arthur Perdue, American businessman (born 1885)

G.I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (born 1886)

Ida Mett, Belarusian Jewish anarchist (born 1901)

Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler and scholar (born 1902)

Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (born 1878)

Paul Viiding, Estonian author, poet, and critic (born 1904)

Lottie Dod, English tennis player, golfer, and archer (born 1871)

Harry Pollitt, British politician and Secretary General of the Communist Party of Great Britain (born 1890)

Hermann Buhl, Austrian soldier and mountaineer (born 1924)

Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (born 1878)

Milada Horáková, Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (born 1901)

Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (born 1900)

Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (born 1873)

Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (born 1893)

Milan Hodža, Czech journalist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (born 1878)

Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American inventor (born 1857)

Francesco Buhagiar, Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (born 1876)

Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Canadian lawyer and judge (born 1839)

Peter Sturholdt, American boxer (born 1885)

Karl Allmenröder, German soldier and pilot (born 1896)

George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (born 1855)

Victor Surridge, English motorcycle racer (born 1882)

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator, co-founded Radcliffe College (born 1822)

Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (born 1867)

John Berryman, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1825)

Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1834)

Sidney Breese, American jurist and politician (born 1800)

Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (born 1800)

Joseph Smith, American religious leader, founded the Latter Day Saint movement (born 1805)

Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (born 1780)

Sophie Germain, French mathematician and physicist (born 1776)

Konstantin Pavlovich, grand duke of Russia and the son of Emperor Paul I of Russia (born 1779)

James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (born 1765)

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (born 1754)

Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (born 1711)

Philippe de Noailles, French general (born 1715)

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichord player and composer (born 1665)

Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet and author (born 1639)

Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (born 1597)

Eleonora Gonzaga, Holy Roman Empress (born 1598)

Johannes Valentinus Andreae, German theologian (born 1586)

Date Masamune, Japanese strongman (born 1567)

John Hayward, English historian, journalist, and politician (born 1564)

Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop (born 1539)

Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys (born 1525)

Giorgio Vasari, Italian historian, painter, and architect (born 1511)

Michael An Gof, rebel leader

Thomas Flamank, rebel leader

Alfonso V of Aragon (born 1396)

Floris V, Count of Holland (born 1254)

King Sancho VI of Navarre (born 1132)

Odo II, Duke of Burgundy (born 1118)

Conan I of Rennes, Duke of Brittany