Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 27
This is a list of selected June 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Joshua Slocum
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George II at Dettingen
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1571 – Elizabeth I of England issued a royal charter establishing Jesus College (pictured), the first Protestant college at the University of Oxford. | Buildings of Jesus College, Oxford is featured as Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 27, 2011 |
| 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 (74,000 km). | refimprove |
| 1905 – The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutiny against their oppressive officers. | needs more footnotes |
| 1967 – The world's first electronic automated teller machine was installed in Enfield Town, London by Barclays Bank. | unreferenced section |
| 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 |
| 1977 – The former French Territory of the Afars and the Issas was granted independence from France and became Djibouti. | refimprove section |
| 1980 – Aerolinee 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. | needs more footnotes |
| 1986 – The International Court of Justice ruled against the United States in Nicaragua v. United States. | needs more footnotes |
| 1991 – Yugoslavia invaded Slovenia, two days after the latter's declaration of independence from the former, starting the Ten-Day War. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 678 – Saint Agatho began his reign as Pope.
- 1844 – Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. and his brother Hyrum were killed by an armed mob who stormed the prison where they were incarcerated in Carthage, Illinois.
- 1899 – A. E. J. Collins scored 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
- 1989 – The International Labour Organization 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.
June 27: Mixed Race Day in Brazil
- 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa, a maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia, was founded.
- 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time that a British monarch personally led his troops into battle, George II (pictured) and his forces defeated the French in Dettingen, Bavaria.
- 1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi led a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China, out of which came the Tanaka Memorial, a strategic document detailing these plans (now believed to be a forgery).
- 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.
- 2008 – President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe was overwhelmingly re-elected after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.