History Events on June 27

The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.

#Itavia_Flight_870

In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.

#Battle_of_Dettingen

France grants independence to Djibouti.

#Djibouti

Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997.

#Tony_Blair

The Republic of Ragusa is founded.

#Republic_of_Ragusa

The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

#Circumnavigation

The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.

#Obninsk_Nuclear_Power_Plant

After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes Fillmore East in New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".

#Bill_Graham_(promoter)

The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.

#President_of_Uruguay

German troops capture the city of Bia?ystok during Operation Barbarossa.

#Bia?ystok

Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.

#Space_Shuttle_Columbia

During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.

#Russo-Japanese_War

U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.

#President_of_the_United_States

NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.

#NASA

Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.

#Joseph_Smith

Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.

#Cornwall

The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

#Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad

Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.

#Slovenia

A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware begins that swamped websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.

#2017_cyberattacks_on_Ukraine

Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.

#Battle_of_Kennesaw_Mountain

Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.

#Hurricane_Audrey

The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.

#Gare_de_Lyon_rail_accident

The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.

#Korean_War

The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.

#Stratford_Martyrs

British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.

#Buenos_Aires

Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.

#Prime_Minister_of_Japan

A midair explosion from flammable powder at a recreational water park in Taiwan injures at least 510 people with about 183 in serious condition in intensive care.

At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

In a highly scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.

The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.

Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.

The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.

Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.

In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.

Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Ia?i, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.

Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War.