WillDekkard
06-29-2010, 05:50 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 27th
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* 1358 Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
* 1709 (O.S.) Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
* 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.
* 1759 General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
* 1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
* 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.
* 1898 The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
* 1905 Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
* 1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
* 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.
* 1941 German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
* 1950 The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
* 1954 The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
* 1967 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
* 1973 The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'้tat.
* 1974 U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
* 1976 Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
* 1977 France grants independence to Djibouti.
* 1982 Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
* 1989 The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, was adopted.
* 1991 Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
* 2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemใo in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemใo massacre.
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- June 27th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1358 Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
* 1709 (O.S.) Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
* 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.
* 1759 General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
* 1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
* 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.
* 1898 The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
* 1905 Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
* 1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
* 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.
* 1941 German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
* 1950 The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
* 1954 The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
* 1967 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
* 1973 The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'้tat.
* 1974 U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
* 1976 Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
* 1977 France grants independence to Djibouti.
* 1982 Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
* 1989 The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, was adopted.
* 1991 Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
* 2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemใo in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemใo massacre.
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