Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 27

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  Saint Agatho
• Joshua Slocum
  Joshua Slocum
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  Joshua Slocum's sailing boat Spray
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  George II at Dettingen
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  Russian battleship Potemkin
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  Jacobo Árbenz
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  Ali Khamenei after the assassination attempt
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  Jesus College, Oxford
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  Artist's impression of Hayabusa2
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  A. E. J. Collins

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Blurb	Reason
Mixed Race Day in Brazil;	refimprove
Independence Day in Djibouti	unreferenced section
1358 – The Republic of Ragusa, a maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia, was founded.	refimprove
1556 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs were burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.	refimprove section
1760 – Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeated British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina, U.S.	refimprove section
1844 – Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by an armed mob who stormed the prison where they were incarcerated in Carthage, Illinois.	refimprove section
1898 – Canadian-American seaman and adventurer Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the globe sailing on his refitted sloop-rigged fishing boat Spray, a distance of more than 46,000 miles (Template:Nowrap).	Slocum: refimprove; Spray: unreferenced section
1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant near Moscow was connected to the electrical grid, becoming the world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity industrially.	Citations needed
1967 – The world's first electronic automated teller machine was installed in Enfield Town, London, by Barclays Bank.	refimprove section
1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closed the Fillmore East, the "Church of Rock and Roll", in New York City.	refimprove
1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv–Athens–Paris) was hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.	appears on July 4
1980 – Itavia Flight 870 suffered an in-flight explosion due to unknown causes while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 people on board.	multiple issues
1981 – Ali Khamenei, Iranian supreme leader, was seriously injured in an assassination attempt.	expansion
1986 – In Nicaragua v. United States, the International Court of Justice ruled that the United States had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government.	refimprove section
1989 – Convention 169, a major binding international convention concerning indigenous peoples, and a forerunner of the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, was adopted by the International Labour Organization.	unreffed sections
1991 – Yugoslavia invaded Slovenia, two days after the latter's declaration of independence from the former, starting the Ten-Day War.	refimprove
Guilhermina Suggia |b|1885|	Birthday not cited
Svetlana Kuznetsova |b|1985|	Date not cited

Eligible

• 1571 – Queen Elizabeth I issued a royal charter establishing Jesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of Oxford.
• 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time that a British monarch led troops in battle, Allied forces commanded by George II (depicted) defeated the French army at Dettingen, Bavaria.
• 1864 – American Civil War: General Sherman's frontal assault against the Confederate Army of Tennessee failed, but did not stop the Union army from advancing on Atlanta.
• 1869 – One day after surrendering at the Battle of Hakodate, Enomoto Takeaki turned the fort of Goryōkaku over to Japanese forces, signaling the collapse of the Republic of Ezo.
• 1869 – The military phase of the Meiji Restoration in Japan was completed with an imperial victory in the Boshin War.
• 1899 – A. E. J. Collins (pictured) scored 628 runs not out, the highest recorded score in cricket until being surpassed in 2016.
• 1954 – Jacobo Árbenz resigned as President of Guatemala following a CIA-led coup against his administration.
• 1957 – Hurricane Audrey made landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana, U.S.
• 1976 – The first identifiable case of Ebola occurred in Sudan.
• 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: As the Yugoslav Army moved into Osijek, Croatia, a civilian attempted to halt them by placing his car in the path of a tank, becoming a symbol of Croatian resistance in the war.
• 1994 – Members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas in Matsumoto, Nagano, killing eight people and injuring more than five hundred others.
• 2007 – As a result of an ongoing conflict between drug dealers and police in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a large military and civil police operation killed 19 people and injured several others.
• 2008 – Robert Mugabe was re-elected as President of Zimbabwe with an overwhelming majority after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew, citing violence against his party's supporters.
• 2017 – Websites of Ukrainian organizations were swamped by a massive cyberattack, blamed on Russian military hackers, using the malware Petya.
• 2018 – The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 (artist's impression pictured) arrived at the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for return to Earth.
• Born/died this day: | Conan I of Rennes |d|992| Thomas Erpingham |d|1428| George Vincent |bap|1796| James Smithson |d|1829| Eugenia Washington |b|1838| Ranjit Singh |d|1839| Sarah Helen Whitman |d|1878| Charlie Macartney |b|1886| Rosalie Allen|b|1924| Ross Perot|b|1930| Wanda Gág|d|1946| Mary McAleese |b|1951| Tony Leung Chiu-wai |b|1962| Nekima Levy Armstrong|b|1976| Sam Claflin|b|1986| Sam Manekshaw|d|2008| Violet Milstead|d|2014| Michael Nyqvist |d|2017|

June 27: Helen Keller Day in the United States Template:Main page image/OTD

• 678 – Pope Agatho (depicted), later venerated as a saint in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, began his pontificate.
• 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: French forces won a victory at the Battle of Neuburg, ending Austrian control over the River Danube.
• 1905 – First Russian Revolution: The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutiny against their officers.
• 1950 – Korean War: Five North Korean aircraft attacked an American air convoy above Suwon Air Base in the first air engagement of the Korean War.
• 2015 – Ignition of corn starch caused a dust fire at a water park in New Taipei City, Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring more than 400 others.