Today in History for 27th June 2015

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 198

678 - St Agatho begins his reign asCatholic Pope

1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik isfounded

1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claimsCalifornia for Spain

1580 - Duke of Alva's army occupies Portugal

1652 - New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America

1693 - 1st sea battle of Lagos: a French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeated an Anglo-Dutch fleet under George Rooke

1693 - 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)

1697 - Polish parliament selects monarch August of Saxony as king

1709 - Peter the Great of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.

1743 - War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britainpersonally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch would command troops in thefield.

1756 - French fleet conquer St Philips Castle of Minorca

1759 - General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.

1778 - Liberty Bell came home to Philaelphia after the British departure

British Army Officer James Wolfe

1806 - Buenos Aires captured by British

1833 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females atCanterbury Conn

1847 - New York Boston linked by telegraph wires

1857 - Bibighar massacre of 120 British women and children following the seige of Cawnpore

1857 - James Donnelly becomes engaged in a drunken brawl with Patrick Farrell, who suffers a fatalblow to the head. Farrell dies two days later, which makes James Donnelly a wanted man and drawsthe Donnelly family into the notorious feud

1862 - -28] Battle at Garnett's/Golding's Farms, Virginia

1862 - Battle of Gaines' Mill, VA (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3

1863 - Skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia

1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain GA

Squatter James Donnelly

1867 - Bank of California opens doors

1876 - 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Phila Athletics)

1876 - Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate

1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies attack Motlousi in Matabeleland

1890 - George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight)

1893 - Great stock crash on NY stock exchange

1899 - 16th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Blanche Hillyard beats C Sterry (6-2 6-3)

1899 - 23rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Reginald Doherty beats Arthur Gore (1-6 4-6 6-3 6-3 6-3)

1903 - 9th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 307 at Baltusrol GC NJ

1905 - Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin" and sail for Odessa

1909 - 23rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach (6-0 6-1)

1909 - Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert)

1914 - Jack Johnson beats Frank Moran in 20 for heavyweight boxing title

1914 - US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia

1915 - 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)

1915 - Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription

1917 - 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service

1917 - Venizelos takes over as Prime Minister of Greece and severs relations with Central Powers,bringing Greece onside with the Allies in WWI

1922 - Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)

1923 - Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane

1929 - 1st color TV demo (NYC)

1929 - President Paul Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I

1931 - 3rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Scioto Country Club (Columbus, Ohio, US)

1933 - 4th Ryder Cup: Great Britain wins, 6½-5½ at Southport Ainsdale, England

1934 - Federal Savings Loan Association created

1935 - Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ

1936 - 71st British Golf Open: Alf Padgham shoots a 287 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club

1939 - 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)

1939 - Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings

1939 - Headley scores a cricket century in each innings v England at Lord's

1940 - Soviet Army attacks Romania

1940 - USSR returns to Gregorian calendar

1941 - Bialystok Poland falls to Germany

1941 - Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam

1942 - FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island

1942 - PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk

1943 - Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m)

1943 - Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5)

1944 - Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies

1945 - Foundation 1940-45 established

1947 - 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands

1947 - WRC TV channel 4 in Washington DC (NBC) begins broadcasting

1949 - "Captain Video His Video Rangers" debut on DUMONT-TV

1950 - "Liar" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 12 performances

1950 - 32nd PGA Championship: Chandler Harper at Scioto CC Columbus Ohio

1950 - US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam

33rd US President Harry Truman

1950 - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Trumanorders Air Force Navy into Korean conflict

1950 - South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea

1953 - Joseph Laniel appointed French premier

1954 - 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)

1954 - CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala

1955 - "Julius LaRosa Show" debuts on CBS-TV

1955 - 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)

1956 - Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings

1957 - Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana Texas

1957 - The British Medical Research Council publishes a report suggesting a direct link betweensmoking and lung cancer.

1958 - Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th

1958 - Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) NY to London

1959 - "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 perfs

LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright

1959 - 14th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright

1959 - Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game

1960 - British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia

1960 - Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge, Massachusetts

1960 - Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens

1961 - Ghana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa

1962 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m

1962 - Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems

1962 - In South Africa, the General Law Amendment Act (Sabotage Act) No 76 commences,increasing the state president's power to declare organisations unlawful and to add furtherrestrictions to banning orders

1963 - Bill J Kramer Dakotas record Lennon McCartney "I Call Your Name"

1963 - US President John Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland

1963 - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m

1963 - Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but Phillie centerfielder Tony Gonzalez's error ends hisrecord 205 consecutive errorless games

1964 - "New Phil Silvers Show" last airs on CBS-TV

1964 - "Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" by Die Beatles peaks at #97

1964 - Jan Dean release "Little Old Lady From Pasadena"

1965 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Carling Golf Open

1966 - 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV

1966 - 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 212

1040 - King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)

1350 - Manuel II Palaiologos, Eastern Roman Emperor

1462 - Louis XII, the Just, King of France (1498-1515)

1550 - Charles IX, King of France (1560-74)

1615 - Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter

1696 - William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)

1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)

1718 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer

1745 - Johann Nepomuk Went, composer

1787 - Thomas Say, USA, American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology, born inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania

1789 - Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer

1805 - Stephen Elvey, composer

1808 - Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide)

1809 - Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member

1812 - John Pike Hullah, composer

1819 - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer

1821 - August Conradi, composer

1828 - Junius Daniel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)

1833 - Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer

1838 - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (Anandamath)

1838 - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)

1846 - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member

1849 - Harriet Hubbard Ayer, beauty cream maufacturer expert/columnist

1850 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke)

1850 - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer

1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, US, journalist/author (Chita)

1850 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)

1859 - Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You)

1862 - May Irwin, US comedienne/singer (Hot Time in the Old Town)

1869 - Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth)

1869 - Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961)

1869 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(d. 1941)

Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872)

1872 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet/novelist (Oak Ivory)

1878 - Jean François van Royen, Dutch bibliophile/secretary-general of PTT

1880 - Helen Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many

1882 - Eduard Spranger, German psychologist/educator

1884 - Forrester Harvey, Ireland, actor (Tarzan, Chump at Oxford)

1884 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (La psychanalyse du feu)

1885 - Arthur Harmat, composer

1886 - Charles Macartney, cricketer (Governor-General)

1888 - Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946br />1888 - Lewis Bernstein Namier,English historian (d. 1960)

1889 - Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor

1889 - Moroni Olsen, Ogden UT, actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White)

1892 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985)

1896 - Franciscus J Feron, vicaris-general of Roermond

Author Helen Keller (1880)

1898 - Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russ/Aust author (Students)

1898 - Tibor Harsanyi, composer

1899 - Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)

1900 - Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77)

1905 - Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher (50 years in 1 room school in SC)

1906 - Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy)

1906 - Vernon P Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd)

1907 - John McIntire, Spokane WA, actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian)

1907 - Valerie Cossart, actress (Hartmans), born in London, England

1908 - Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (De Damrakkertjes)

1908 - William Eric David Davis, broadcaster

1908 - João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)

1909 - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, composer

1910 - Karel Reiner, composer

1911 - Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US, 3 year old who drowned on Lusitania

1911 - Paul Eekman, Flemish RC politician (1964- )

1911 - V K Narayana Menon, composer

1912 - Audrey Christie, actress (Dorothy-Fair Exchange), born in Chicago, Illinois

1913 - Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player (1941-57)

1914 - Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor/writer (Farce Major)

1914 - Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament (1948-87))

1914 - Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)

1915 - Hendrik W van Leeuwen, musician

1916 - Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer

1916 - Hallvard Olav Johnsen, composer

1917 - K M Rangnekar, cricketer (batted in 3 Tests India v Australia 1947-48)

1917 - Ronald George Hayward, political manager

1918 - Adolph Kiefer, US, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1936)

1920 - I A L Diamond, screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-Apartment)

1921 - G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA)

1921 - Muriel Pavlow, British actress

1922 - George Theophilus Walker, Washington DC, composer (Praise of Lillies)

1922 - Herbert Ziergiebel, writer

1924 - Paul F Conrad, US cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

1924 - Bob Appleyard, cricketer (superb England off-spinner, brief career)

1924 - Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer

1925 - Jerome "Doc" Pomus, rocker

1926 - Frank O'Hara, writer

1927 - Bob Keeshan, Lynbrook NY, aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle (Good Morning)

1927 - Peter Bayliss, Thames England, actor (From Russia With Love)

1927 - Robert Casey, actor (Henry-Aldrich Family Show), born in Rochester, New York

1928 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)

1929 - William Afflis, American wrestler (d. 1991)

1930 - H Ross Perot, Texas, billionaire/presidental candidate (1992)

1930 - Tamio Kono, weightlifting (Oly-gold-52, 56, 60), born in Sacramento, California

1931 - Alojz Srebotnjak, composer

1931 - Charles Bronfman, CEO (Seagrams, Montreal Expos)

1931 - Ryszard Kwiatkowski, composer

1932 - Hugh Wood, composer

1932 - Joachim Wohlgemuth, writer

1932 - Anna Moffo, Wayne Penn, US soprano (Adventurers)

1932 - Eddie Kasko, baseball player

1932 - Magali Noël, French actress

1935 - Laurent Terzieff, Paris, actor (Head Over Heels, Milky Way)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 12 of 12

1524 - Earl Henry III of Nassau weds Mencia de Medoza, 16-years old marquess

Engineer Jack Kilby (1948)

1948 - Inventor Jack Kilby (24) weds Barbara Annegers

1964 - Broadway musical actress-singer Ethel Merman (56) weds academy award-winning actorErnest Borgnine (47) in Beverly Hills, California

1992 - "One Life to Live" actress Catherine Hickland (36) weds actor Michael E. Knight (33)

1992 - Singer-songwriter Andrea Bocelli (34) weds Enrica Cenzatti

1993 - Actress Julia Roberts (25) weds country singer Lyle Lovett (36) at St. James Lutheran Churchin Marion, Indiana

1998 - Prince Michael of Greece daughter Princess Alexandra (29) weds perfume executive NicolasMirzayantz (37) in Torcello Island

1998 - The "Murphy Brown" actress Faith Ford (33) weds personal trainer and writer CampionMurphy (35) on Clint Eastwood's 22-acre Mission Ranch in Carmel, California

Actress Julia Roberts (1993)

2005 - "The Young and The Restless" actress Melody Thomas Scott (49) weds supervising producerof the CBS daytime drama Edward J. Scott (60) for the second time in Las Vegas, Nevada

2009 - "Playboy Playmate" model Kendra Wilkinson (24) weds NFL player beau Hank Baskett (26) atthe Playboy Mansion in Bel Air, California

2009 - Rocker Eddie Van Halen (54) weds publicist Janie Liszewski (39) at his seven-acre estate inthe hills above Studio City, California

2011 - Actress America Ferrera (28) weds actor and director Ryan Piers Williams (31) in New York

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2007 - Former Playboy playmate and Baywatch actress Donna D'Errico (38) divorces Motley Cruebassist Nikki Sixx (48) due to irreconcilable differences after 9 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 114

444 - Cyrillus van Alexandria, patriarch of Alexandria, dies

1137 - Guigo de Castro, [Venerabilis], 5th prior of Grande Chartreuse, dies

1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)

1296 - Floris V, count of Holland Zeeland, dies

King Alfonso V of Aragon (1458)

1458 - Alfonso V, King of Aragon/Sicily/Naples (Alfonso I), dies

1543 - Agnolo Firenzuola, [Giovannini], Ital monk (De golden ezel), dies

1574 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)

1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539)

1627 - John Hayward, English historian

1638 - Lukaris Cyrillus, patriarch of Alexandria/Constantinople, dies

1641 - Michiel Jansz of Mierevelt, royal painter, dies at 74

1654 - Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), dies at 67

1672 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)

1679 - Pablo Bruna, composer, dies at 68

1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)

1757 - Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant, dies at 59

1773 - Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706)

1776 - Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed

1785 - Egbert de Free Temminck, Amsterdam regent, dies at 84

1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)

1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)

1814 - Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer, dies at 61

1827 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)

1829 - James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute

1829 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer, dies at 64

Mathematician Sophie Germain (1831)

1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician, dies at 55

1832 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, composer, dies at 72

1839 - Ranjit Singh, gov of Lahore, dies

1844 - Hyrum Smith, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob in Carthage Ill

1844 - Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob at 38

1848 - Denis-Auguste Affre, archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death at 54

1848 - Zschokke, writer, dies

1859 - Jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-36), dies at 69

1862 - Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35

1863 - Martin E Green, Confederate brig-general, shot dead at 38

1864 - Charles Garrison Harker, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle at 26

1876 - Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81

1889 - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies

1889 - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer, dies at 50

Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr (1844)

1907 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)

1912 - George Bonnor, cricketer (once ran three before he was caught), dies

1917 - Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School), dies at 79

1934 - Max Pallenberg, Austria actor (Brave Suender), dies in air crash at 56

1935 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)

1944 - Werner Wehrli, composer, dies at 52

1944 - Milan Hod?a, Slovak politician (b. 1878)

1948 - George Templeton Strong, composer, dies at 92

1950 - Milada Horakova, Czech advocate/anti fascist, hanged

1952 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)

1954 - Francis L Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 83

1957 - Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine), dies at 48

1958 - Robert Greig, actor (Devil Doll, Indian Love Call), dies at 78

1960 - Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain dies at 69

1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)

1961 - Paul (II) Guilfoyle, actor (Apache, Final Anaylsis), dies at 58

1962 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)

1964 - Daniel Lazarus, composer, dies at 65

1965 - Anthony Veiller, writer, dies at 62

1966 - Arthur D Waley, [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies

1968 - Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies

1969 - Richard Vance Maxfield, composer, dies at 42

1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)

1971 - Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53

1973 - Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82

1973 - Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at 73

1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, percussionist (T-Rex), dies at 31

1982 - Jack Mullaney, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time), dies at 49

1983 - Don Ida, balloonists, dies during a race

1983 - Maxie Anderson, balloonists, dies during a race

1986 - Don Rogers, of Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning

1986 - Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies

1986 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)

1986 - Joe Maphis, American country music guitarist dies aged 65

1988 - Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (High Falcon), dies at 88

1989 - Alfred J Ayer, English philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies

1989 - Jack Beutel, actor (The Outlaw), dies

1991 - Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered

1991 - Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister), dies

1991 - Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)

1992 - Allen James, vocalist/actor (Show Boat), dies of lung cancer at 84

1992 - Sandy Amoros, Bkln Dodger, dies at 62 of pneumonia

1992 - Stefanie Ann Sargent, guitarist (7 Year Bitch), dies of overdose at 24

1993 - Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40

1994 - Jeremy Brooks, writer, dies at 67

1995 - Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician, dies at 70

1995 - Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator, dies at 59

1995 - Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 61

1996 - Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer, dies at 87

1996 - Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier, dies at 85

1998 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (b. 1935)

1999 - George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)

2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)

Actor Jack Lemmon (2001)

2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)

2002 - John Entwistle, bass-player with The Who dies in his sleep of a heart attack in his Las Vegashotel room aged 57

2003 - David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)

2004 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)

2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)

2005 - Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)

2005 - Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector

2005 - John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)

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