Today in History for 27th June 2015 Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 198 678 - St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is founded 1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California 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 Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch would command troops in the field. 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
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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)
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"
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