Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 187 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the battle of Poltava 1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec 1893 - Crash of the New York stock market 1905 - Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin 1950 - United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War 1953 - Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France 1954 - World's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow 1957 - Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas 1962 - Construction begins on the St. Louis Gateway Arch 1967 - World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London 1969 - The Stonewall riots mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the US 1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti 1984 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins Albert Einstein Peace Prize 1985 - Route 66 ceases to be an official highway 1986 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the Nicaragua v. United States 1991 - Slovenia, which declared independent 2 days previously, is invaded by Yugoslavia troops, tanks, and aircraft 2001 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case Births 1682 - Charles XII of Sweden, king of Sweden in 1697-1718 († 1718) (June 17 in Swedish calendar) 1838 - Paul von Mauser, weapon designer († 1914) 1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, author († 1904) 1869 - Hans Spemann, zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine 1935 († 1941) 1869 - Emma Goldman, anarchist, feminist, free love advocate († 1940) 1870 - Frank Rattray Lillie, zoologist, embryologist († 1947) 1880 - Helen Keller, spokeswoman for the deaf and blind († 1968) 1882 - Eduard Spranger, philosopher, psychologist and educator († 1963) 1906 - Catherine Cookson, author († 1998) 1913 - Willie Mosconi, professional billiards player († 1993) 1925 - Jerome Felder, AKA Doc Pomus, musician, composer († 1991) 1927 - Otto Herbert Hajek, sculptor 1930 - Ross Perot, billionaire and politician 1931 - Charles Bronfman, industrialist 1935 - Anna Moffo, soprano 1941 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director († 1996) 1949 - Vera Wang, fashion designer 1955 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress 1962 - Tony Leung Chiu Wai, English actor 1975 - Tobey Maguire, actor 1977 - Raúl, Spanish football star Deaths 363 - Emperor Julian 1458 - Alfonso V of Aragon 1831 - Sophie Germain, mathematician 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1952 - Elmo Lincoln, actor 1957 - Malcolm Lowry, novelist (* 1909) 1998 - Kerim Tekin, Turkish singer 2001 - Jack Lemmon, actor and film director 2001 - Tove Jansson, author of the Moomin books. 2002 - John Entwistle, bass player for The Who Holidays and observances Feast of St Cyril of Alexandria National HIV Testing Day in United States Stonewall Day (date of many gay pride celebrations, including those in New York City, San Francisco, Toronto, and Madrid) See Also: June 26 - June 28 - May 27 - July 27 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.