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Ancient Ruins Of Tiwanaku Palaspata Temple – Discovered In Andes

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An ancient society located near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia, known as Tiwanaku, was once among the most influential civilizations on the continent.

Ancient Ruins Of Tiwanaku Palaspata Temple - Discovered In Andes

The surface of the temple contained numerous fragments of keru cups. The cups were used for drinking chicha, a traditional maize beer, during agricultural feasts and celebrations and point to the temple’s function as a central hub for trade. Credit: José Capriles / Penn State. Creative Commons

Archaeologists consider Tiwanaku as one of the earliest examples of civilization in the Andes and a precursor to the Inca Empire. However, this civilization mysteriously vanished approximately a thousand years ago.

Now, a team of researchers, led by scientists from Penn State and Bolivia, has uncovered a Tiwanaku temple, offering significant insights into the society during its peak. José Capriles, an associate professor of anthropology at Penn State and the principal author of a study detailing this discovery, noted that much about the Tiwanaku civilization remains enigmatic.

According to Capriles, the society experienced a collapse around 1000 CE and was in ruins by the time the Incas conquered the Andes in the 15th century. At its height, this civilization was characterized by a highly organized societal structure, as evidenced by architectural remnants such as pyramids, terraced temples, and monoliths.

Ancient Ruins Of Tiwanaku Palaspata Temple - Discovered In Andes

José Capriles, Penn State associate professor of anthropology, was a lead author on a study about the temple discovery. Credit: Patrick Mansell / Penn State. Creative Commons

These structures are primarily found at sites around Lake Titicaca. Although it is known that Tiwanaku’s influence extended far beyond this region, there is ongoing scholarly debate regarding the extent of its actual control over distant areas.

The newly discovered temple complex is situated approximately 130 miles south of Tiwanaku’s well-known historical site, atop a hill familiar to local Indigenous farmers.

Ancient Ruins Of Tiwanaku Palaspata Temple - Discovered In Andes

Stone alignments revealed an ancient temple, called Palaspata after the native name for the area. The temple complex is approximately 125 meters long by 145 meters wide — about the size of a city block — and includes 15 quadrangular enclosures arranged around a rectangular inner courtyard. This is a digital reconstruction of the temple. Credit: José Capriles / Penn State. Creative Commons

Despite its modest appearance, researchers had not previously explored it in depth. However, according to Capriles, the site’s location is strategically significant. During the Tiwanaku period, this spot served as a junction for three major trade routes connecting distinct ecosystems: the fertile highlands around Lake Titicaca to the north, the arid Altiplano suitable for llama herding to the west, and the agriculturally rich eastern Andean valleys of Cochabamba to the east.

The area was important for connecting people who migrated, traded and built monuments in places, which were for them of significant value.

The team used various satellite images together,” Capriles said. “We also conducted a series of UAV, or unmanned aerial vehicle, flights to acquire better pictures of the landscape.

Stone alignments revealed an ancient temple called Palaspata. The complex, approximately the size of a city block, measures 125 meters by 145 meters and features 15 quadrangular enclosures surrounding a rectangular courtyard.

Ancient Ruins Of Tiwanaku Palaspata Temple - Discovered In Andes

The temple’s layout seems aligned to perform rituals following the solar equinox, the moment when the sun is directly above the equator. Using data they collected, the researchers developed a reconstruction to reveal what the ancient temple might have looked like. Credit: José Capriles / Penn State. Creative Commons

Its layout seems aligned for equinox rituals when the sun is directly above the equator. Researchers used the collected data to reconstruct how the temple might have looked.

According to Capriles, the temple’s surface was adorned with numerous fragments of keru cups, which were traditionally employed for consuming chicha, a maize-based beer, during agricultural feasts and celebrations. This evidence underscores the temple’s pivotal role as a center for trade. Furthermore, the cultivation of maize in the Cochabamba valleys rather than at the high-altitude location of the temple underscores its significance in facilitating access to diverse goods, including foodstuffs, and in bridging various culinary traditions.

The temple discovered in the municipality of Caracollo, likely had a religious purpose, as indicated by the ritual areas and its role in mediating trade and distributing harvests.

Capriles observed that many economic and political transactions historically required mediation through divinity, as religion often served as the shared language that enabled diverse individuals to collaborate. This common ground of faith provided a unifying framework for different groups to connect and work together effectively.

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Scientists Finally “See” Key Protein That Controls Inflammation

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3D Protein Molecules BiologyResearchers used advanced microscopy to uncover important protein structures. For the first time, two important protein structures in the human body are being visualized, thanks in part to cutting-edge technology at the University of Cincinnati’s Center for Advanced Structural Biology. This breakthrough could lead to the development of more effective therapeutics. The research, conducted by […]



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Ancient Monster Salamander With “Power Jaws” Discovered in Tennessee

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Red Hills SalamanderA giant burrowing salamander fossil challenges assumptions about amphibian evolution in prehistoric Appalachia. A giant salamander with powerful jaws once burrowed through the ancient soil of what is now Tennessee. Thanks to a fossil found near East Tennessee State University, scientists have gained new insight into how this creature influenced the diversity of amphibians in […]



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NASA Fires Up RS-25 at 111% Power for Artemis Moon Launches

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NASA RS-25 Engine Testing June 2025NASA’s latest hot-fire of RS-25 engine No. 20001 roared for the full 500-second launch profile, proving it can blast the Space Launch System and Orion toward the Moon. Pushing to an eye-popping 111 percent power, the test generated 2 million pounds of thrust, marking the first full-duration run since the new-build engines were certified in […]



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Henry VIII’s and Cromwell’s bibles reunite – The History Blog

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Five hundred years after they were separated by political scheming and the executioner’s axe, Henry VIII’s and Thomas Cromwell’s bibles are together again. The unique, personalized copies of the Great Bible of 1539, the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, have been reunited as part of the Treasures exhibition at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

The two matching Bibles were commissioned by Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s right-hand-man in governance and strong supporter of religious reform. They were printed on parchment and the black-and-white woodcut illustrations were then painted in vivid color to look like the illuminated manuscripts of old.

Cromwell had these two presentation copies made to propagandize his idea of spreading copies of the Bible in English throughout the realm to the king himself. The beautifully painted cover page depicts Henry handing out bibles to his people. Despite his break with Rome, Henry was used to Latin being the language of services and prayers, and as an anointed king and now head of the Church of England, he was not keen on democratizing the scriptures.

Cromwell managed to persuade the reluctant king, and in September 1538, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Thomas Cromwell issued a royal order that every church in England and Wales buy a printed copy of the Great Bible and put it “in sum convenient place” where parishioners could access it. The first copies were on sale in April 1539. Just over a year later, Thomas Cromwell was dead, executed on a long list of spurious grounds including supporting various heresies.

All Great Bibles published after July 1540 excised his heraldic insignia on the frontispiece, and changes were made to the presentation copies as well. They are now at National Library of Wales and the other at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and have recently undergone scientific analysis and study as part of the Hidden in Plain Sight research project.

Using a range of scientific tools, from x-ray to microscopes and even DNA analysis, new light has been shed on the books, revealing some unknown histories and leading to discoveries about how the books were made and changed over time.

The project has revealed that Cromwell had his portrait painted and pasted into the title page of the St John’s copy, a move expertly hidden for centuries. The opening title page was further manipulated to gain Henry’s support, by altering an image of a courtly woman to resemble Jane Seymour, his beloved and recently deceased consort. Other discoveries are set to be revealed during the course of the exhibition. […]

Prof. Eyal Poleg, Queen Mary University of London, said: “These are two of the most important artefacts of the Tudor Court. New technologies have unearthed modifications, hidden for centuries.

“We can now appreciate how Cromwell manipulated the appearance of the Bibles as they were being printed, carefully navigating the religious and political turmoil of Henry’s court.

“The ability to see the Bibles side-by-side, for the first time in nearly 500 years, is a rare opportunity to witness first-hand this unique period.”



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Famous Deaths on June 27

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  • 444 Cyril of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria, central figure in the Council of Ephesus, dies (b. c. 376)
  • 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, murdered after being captured by local lords in a conspiracy encouraged by the English crown at 41

King of Aragon, Sicily and Naples (Alfonso I), dies at 61 or 62

Alfonso V

  • 1543 Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and litterateur, dies at 49
  • 1574 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and art historian (Vasari’s Lives), dies at 62
  • 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 Janszoon van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter, dies at 74
  • 1654 Johann Valentin Andreae, German theologian and writer (claimed to have written Rosicrucian text), dies at 67
  • 1655 Eleonora Gonzaga, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Emperor Ferdinand II, dies at 56
  • 1672 Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist, dies at 74
  • 1679 Pablo Bruna, Spanish blind composer, dies at 68
  • 1720 Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
  • 1729 Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist, organist, singer, and composer (Les pièces de clavessin; Céphale et Procris), dies at 64
  • 1757 Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent, banker and 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 Philippe de Noailles, French soldier, Duke of Mouchy, and Marshall of France, dies under the guillotine at 78 [1] [2]
  • 1794 Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Austrian-Czech diplomat and statesman in the Habsburg monarchy, dies at 83
  • 1814 Johann Friedrich Reichardt, German composer, dies at 61
  • 1827 Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
  • 1829 James Smithson, English scientist dies at about 64, his will leaves half a million dollars to the United States to establishes the Smithsonian Institute
  • 1829 Louis-Sébastien Lebrun, French composer, dies at 64

Sophie Germain

  • 1832 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, French army officer, and composer (“La Marseillaise” -the French national anthem), dies at 72
  • 1839 Ranjit Singh, gov of Lahore, dies
  • 1843 John Murray, Scottish publisher (publisher of Lord Byron and Jane Austen), dies at 64

American founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shot by a mob at 38

Joseph Smith

  • 1848 Denis-Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris (1840-48) and opponent of King Louis-Philippe, shot to death at 54
  • 1848 Heinrich Zschokke, German Swiss writer, dies at 77
  • 1859 Jean Chrétien Baud, Dutch 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 brigadier general, shot dead at 38
  • 1863 Martin Edward Green, American Brigadier General in the Confederate Army who was part of the Vicksburg Campaign, killed in action at 48
  • 1864 Charles Garrison Harker, US Union-brigadier general, dies at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain battle at 26
  • 1873 Hiram Powers, American sculptor (Greek Slave), dies at 67
  • 1876 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, German naturalist and zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81
  • 1876 Harriet Martineau, British controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist, dies at 74
  • 1880 Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician who worked in analysis, dies at 63
  • 1889 Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies at 48
  • 1889 Whitney Eugene Thayer, American composer, dies at 50
  • 1905 Harold Mahony, Scottish tennis player (Wimbledon 1896), dies in a bicycling accident at 38
  • 1907 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College, dies at 84
  • 1912 Frank Furness, American architect (University of Pennsylvania Library; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), dies at 72 [1]
  • 1912 George Bonnor, Australian cricket batsman (17 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 128; NSW CA, Victoria CA), dies from a heart attack at 57
  • 1917 Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism), dies at 79
  • 1917 Karl Allmenröder, German World War I flying Ace, dies at 21
  • 1920 Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (“O Canada”), dies at 81
  • 1935 Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (1st sound-on-film recording), dies at 77
  • 1939 David Werner Amram, American lawyer, legal and Talmudic scholar, Zionist, and author (The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy), dies at 73
  • 1944 Milan Hodža, Slovak politician and 10th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia, dies at 66 [1]
  • 1944 Werner Wehrli, Swiss composer, pedagogue, and conductor, dies at 52
  • 1948 George Templeton Strong, American composer, dies at 92
  • 1950 Milada Horakova, Czech advocate/anti fascist, hanged
  • 1952 Max Dehn, German mathematician (Dehn’s lemma), dies at 73
  • 1954 Francis Casadesus, French violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 83
  • 1957 Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Under the Volcano, Ultramarine), dies at 48
  • 1958 Martinus Ballings, Belgian Jesuit author (Wilskracht/Willpower), dies at 93 [1]
  • 1958 Robert Greig, Australian actor (Sullivan’s Travels, Horse Feathers), dies at 78
  • 1960 Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain dies at 69

British all-round athlete (Wimbledon 1887-88, 1891-93), dies at 88

Lottie Dod

  • 1961 Harry Hooton, Australian poet, dies of cancer at 52
  • 1961 Muchtar Auezov, Kazakh writer and playwright (Enilik-Kebek), dies at 63
  • 1961 Paul Guilfoyle, American actor and director (White Heat, Cyrano de Bergerac), dies of a heart attack at 58
  • 1962 Paul Viiding, Estonian poet, dies at 58
  • 1964 Daniel Lazarus, French composer, dies at 65
  • 1965 Anthony Veiller, American writer (Night of Iguana, Moulin Rouge), dies at 62
  • 1966 Arthur D Waley [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies
  • 1968 Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for South Africa), dies at 87
  • 1969 Richard Maxfield, American instrumental, electro-acoustic, and electronic music composer, jumps to his death from a hotel window at 42
  • 1970 Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
  • 1973 Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
  • 1974 Cliff Friend, American pianist and songwriter, dies at 80
  • 1980 Albany “Barney” Bigard, Creole-American jazz clarinetist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1927-42 – “Mood Indigo”), dies at 74
  • 1982 Jack Mullaney, American actor (South Pacific; My Living Doll, It’s About Time; Spinout), dies of a stroke at 52
  • 1983 Don Ida, American hot air balloonist, dies in a crash at 49
  • 1983 Maxie Anderson, American hot air balloonist (1st Trans-Atlantic crossing, 1978′ 1st Trans-North America crossing, 1980; 1st Trans-Pacific crossing, 1981), dies in a balloon crash at 48
  • 1985 Jane Ross [Breslaw], American actress (Star Trek, Rocket Attack U.S.A., Wild Is My Love), dies at 53
  • 1986 (Otis W.) “Joe” Maphis, American session and country music guitarist (“Dim Lights”), dies of lung cancer at 75
  • 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 (1924 Invincibles), dies at 81
  • 1986 Zoltán Gárdonyi, Hungarian composer, dies at 80
  • 1988 Léonie Adams, American poetess (High Falcon), dies at 88
  • 1989 A. J. Ayer, English Neopositivist philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies at 78
  • 1989 Jack Beutel, actor (The Outlaw), dies
  • 1991 Jason Christmas, American actor (That’s Adequate), dies of a gunshot wound during robbery in NYC at 49
  • 1991 Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord known as “De Lange” (“the tall one”), 1980s largest European drug boss, shot and killed during an argument at 37
  • 1991 Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • 1992 Allan Jones, American actor and singer (A Day at the Races; Showboat), dies at 84
  • 1992 Sandy Amoros, Bkln Dodger, dies at 62 of pneumonia
  • 1992 Stefanie Ann Sargent, American guitarist (7 Year Bitch), dies of alcohol and heroin overdose at 24
  • 1993 Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40
  • 1994 Jeremy Brooks, English writer (Jampot Smith), dies at 67
  • 1995 Efrem Kurtz, Russian conductor (Houston Symphony, 1948-54), dies at 94
  • 1995 Prez “Kidd” Kenneth, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 61
  • 1996 Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (James Bond films), sometimes known as “Cubby”, dies at 87
  • 1996 Peter Adair, American documentary filmmaker (Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives), dies of AIDS at 52
  • 1998 Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, Soviet cosmonaut, dies at 67
  • 1998 Desmond Heap, British lawyer and authority on British planning law, dies at 90
  • 1998 Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician, dies at 62
  • 1998 Joyce Wieland, Canadian experimental filmmaker and conceptual artist (1st women to have a retrospective at the Canadian National Gallery), dies at 67 [1]
  • 1999 Brian O’Hara, English rock guitarist and singer (The Fourmost – “A Little Loving”), commits suicide at 57
  • 1999 Einar Englund, Finnish composer, dies at 83
  • 1999 Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek military officer who led coup d’etat of 21 April 1967, and dictator (Leader of Greece, 1967-73), dies at 80
  • 1999 Marion Motley, American NFL fullback (all-time leading AAFC rusher), dies at 79
  • 1999 Truus van Aalten [Geertruida van Aalten], Dutch silent and sound screen actress (Flaming Youth; The Beggar Student; The Girl in the Blue Hat), dies at 88
  • 2000 Larry Kelley, American College Football Hall of Fame tight end (Heisman Trophy 1936; unanimous All-American 1936; Yale), commits suicide at 85
  • 2000 Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (briefly French Prime Minister 1958), dies at 93
  • 2000 Rudy Cafaro, American jazz guitarist, dies at 80

American actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing), dies of colon cancer and metastatic cancer of the bladder at 76

Jack Lemmon

Finnish author and illustrator (Moomins), dies at 86

Tove Jansson

  • 2002 John Entwistle, English rock bassist (The Who – “Boris The Spider”), dies in his sleep of a cocaine fueled heart attack in his Las Vegas hotel room at 57
  • 2002 Russ Freeman, American classically trained bebop and cool jazz pianist and composer (Art Pepper; Charlie Parker; Chet Baker; Clifford Brown; Shelly Manne), dies at 76
  • 2003 David Newman, American screenwriter who wrote scripts for “Bonnie and Clyde” and “Superman” (1978), dies at 66
  • 2004 Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
  • 2004 George Patton IV, American general in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, dies of Parkinson’s disease at 80
  • 2005 Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
  • 2005 Frank Harte, traditional Irish singer and song collector, dies of a heart attack at 72
  • 2005 John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
  • 2005 Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
  • 2005 Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
  • 2006 Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as “The Railway Killer” (b. 1959)
  • 2007 Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (b. 1905)
  • 2007 Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
  • 2007 William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)
  • 2008 Leonard Pennario, American concert pianist (Rózsa’s Piano Concerto with L.A. Philharmonic), dies of complications from Parkinson’s disease at 83
  • 2008 Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
  • 2008 Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)
  • 2008 Violet Cane, British pioneering female statistician, dies at 92
  • 2009 Fayette Pinkney, American pop and disco singer (The Three Degrees, 1963-76 – “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)”; “When Will I See You Again?”), and psychologist, dies of acute respiratory failure at 61
  • 2009 Gale Storm [Josephine Owaissa Cottle], American singer (“I Hear You Knockin'”), and actress (My Little Margie; The Gale Storm Show), dies at 87
  • 2010 Dolph Briscoe, American businessman and 41st Governor of Texas (1973-79), dies at 87
  • 2011 Betty Callaway, English figure skating coach (Torvill & Dean, Regőczy & Sallay), dies after a fall at 83
  • 2011 Elaine Stewart, American actress and model (The Bad and the Beautiful, Take the High Ground), dies at 81
  • 2011 Gisèle Rabesahala, Malagasy politician (1st female minister) and human righter activist, dies at 82
  • 2011 Lord Inchyra [Robert Charles Reneke Hoyer Millar], British noble and secretary-general of the British Banking Association, dies at 76
  • 2011 Mike Doyle, English former footballer (b. 1946)
  • 2012 Bill Gilbert, American sports author (Sports Illustrated, National Geographic), dies at 85
  • 2012 Don Grady [Agrati], American actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons), dies from cancer at 68
  • 2013 Alain Mimoun, Algerian-French distance runner (Olympic marathon gold 1956; 3 x silver 1948, 52), dies at 92
  • 2013 Henrik Otto Donner, Finnish trumpeter, and avant garde and film score composer, dies at 73
  • 2014 Bobby Womack, American R&B singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer (“It’s All Over Now”; “Woman’s Got to Have It”; “Across 110th Street”), dies at 70
  • 2015 Chris Squire, British progressive rock bassist, founding and longest serving member of Yes, 1969-2014 (“The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)”), dies of acute erythroid leukemia at 67
  • 2015 Denis Vigay, British cellist (BBC Symphony; Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), dies at 89
  • 2015 Harvey McGregor, British barrister and administrator (Warden of New College-Oxford, 1985-96), dies at 86
  • 2016 Alvin Toffler, American author (Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave), dies at 87
  • 2016 Bud Spencer, Italian actor (Aladdin, Extralarge, Go For It), dies at 86
  • 2016 Harry Halbreich, German-Belgian musicologist (Arthur Honegger, Bohuslav Martinů), dies at 85
  • 2016 Mack Rice, American musician and songwriter (“Mustang Sally”; “Respect Yourself”), dies at 82
  • 2016 Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (Symphony and Antiphony), dies of cancer at 83
  • 2017 Geri Allen, American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, and educator, dies of cancer at 60 [1]

Michael Bond

  • 2018 Joe Jackson, American talent manager (Jackson 5), and patriarch of the Jackson family, dies of pancreatic cancer at 89
  • 2020 (Jesse) “Pete” Carr, American session guitarist (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section), dies at 70
  • 2020 (Lionel) Frederick “Freddy” Cole, American jazz singer and pianist, dies at 88 [1]
  • 2020 Ilija Petković, Serbian soccer midfielder (43 caps, Yugoslavia; Troyes, OFK Beograd) and manager (Serbia & Montenegro), dies from COVID-19 at 74
  • 2020 Johnny Mandel, American composer, arranger and musician (M*A*S*H theme), dies at 94
  • 2020 Linda Cristal, Argentinian actress (High Chapparal), dies at 89
  • 2020 Mihai Romilă, Romanian soccer midfielder (19 caps; Politehnica Iași 367 games), dies at 69
  • 2021 Arturo “Chico” O’Farrill, Cuban Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz composer, arranger, and conductor, dies of pneumonia at 79
  • 2021 Noel Furlong, Irish businessman and poker player (World Series of Poker main event 1999), dies at 83
  • 2022 Eileen Barton, American singer (Broadway Open House; “If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake”), dies of ovarian cancer at 81
  • 2022 Jack Gordon, Canadian ice hockey coach (Minnesota North Stars 1970-75) and executive (GM Minnesota NS 1974-78, Vancouver Canucks 1985-87), dies at 94
  • 2022 Marlin Briscoe, American College Football HOF quarterback/wide receiver (Uni Nebraska–Omaha; Super Bowl 1972, 73 Miami Dolphins; Pro Bowl 1970 Buffalo Bills), dies of pneumonia at 76
  • 2023 Bobby Osborne, American bluegrass mandolin player (The Osborne Brothers – “Rocky Top”), dies at 91
  • 2023 Carmen Sevilla [María del Carmen García], Spanish actress, singer and TV presenter (Vengeance; Searching for Monica; Don Juan), dies from complications of Alzheimer’s disease at 92
  • 2023 Julian Sands, English actor (A Room With a View; Arachnophobia; 24), confirmed dead after remains are identified, six months after failing to return from a hike at 65
  • 2024 Jack Petchey English businessman, philanthropist and football executive (Chairman Watford FC 1987-94), dies at 98
  • 2024 Landry Nguémo, Cameroonian soccer defensive midfielder (41 caps; Nancy, Bordeaux, Saint-Étienne), dies in a car accident at 38
  • 2024 Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese soccer striker (31 caps; Sporting CP 218 games) and manager (Vitória Setúbal), dies at 73
  • 2024 Martin Mull, American comic singer-songwriter and character actor (Fernwood 2-Night; Roseanne; Clue), dies at 80 [1]

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Famous Birthdays on June 27

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  • 1040 Ladislaus I, Árpád dynasty King of Hungary (1077-95), and King of Croatia (1091-95), and Roman Catholic saint, born in Kraków, Kingdom of Poland (d. 1095)
  • 1350 Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425) only Byzantine Emperor to visit England, born in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire (d. 1425)

King of France (1498-1515) and King of Naples (1501-04) known as the Just, born in Château de Blois, France

Louis XII

King of France (1560-74), born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

Charles IX

  • 1615 Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter, born in Innsbruck, Austria (d. 1674)
  • 1696 William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier, born in Kittery, Maine (d. 1759)
  • 1717 Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, born in Paris (d. 1799)
  • 1718 Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1763)
  • 1745 Johann Nepomuk Went, Bohemian composer, born in Vinařice, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1801)
  • 1787 Thomas Say, American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1834)
  • 1789 Philipp Friedrich Silcher, German composer, born in Weinstadt, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1860)
  • 1805 Stephen Elvey, British organist and choir master (New College, Oxford 1830-60), and hymn composer, born in Canterbury, Kent, England (d. 1860)
  • 1806 Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer, born in Besançon, France (d. 1883)
  • 1809 François Certain Canrobert, French marshal and parliament member, born in Saint-Céré, France (d. 1895)
  • 1812 John Pike Hullah, English composer, born in Worcester, England (d. 1884)
  • 1819 Carl Albert Löschhorn, German composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1905)
  • 1821 August Conradi, German organist and composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1873)
  • 1821 John Chivington, American officer involved in the Sand Creek Massacre, born in Lebanon, Ohio (d. 1894)
  • 1828 Junius Daniel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Halifax, North Carolina (d. 1864)
  • 1833 Władysław Zaremba, Polish pianist and composer, born in Dunajowce, Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1902)
  • 1838 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Indian novelist (Anandamath), born in Naihati, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1894)
  • 1838 Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1914)

Scottish golfer (British Open 1877-79), born in St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland

Jamie Anderson

  • 1846 Charles Stewart Parnell, English-Irish Home Rule Party leader, born in Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland (d. 1891)
  • 1849 Harriet Hubbard Ayer, American cosmetics manufacturer and columnist, born in Chicago (d. 1903)
  • 1850 Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (Under the Yoke), born in Sopot, Bulgaria (d. 1921)
  • 1850 Jacob Adolf Hägg, Swedish composer, born in Östergarn, Sweden (d. 1928)
  • 1850 Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (Gram–Schmidt process), born in Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark (d. 1919)
  • 1850 Lafcadio Hearn, American author (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan), born in Leucas, Greece (d. 1904)
  • 1859 Mildred J. Hill, American composer and musician (“Happy Birthday To You”), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1916)
  • 1862 May Irwin, Canadian comedienne and singer (“Hot Time in the Old Town”), born in Whitby, Ontario (d. 1938)

Russian-American anarchist, writer (Anarchism and Other Essays; Living My Life), publisher (Mother Earth), and feminist, born in Kovno, Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania) [1]

Emma Goldman

  • 1869 Hans Spemann, German embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1935), born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1941)
  • 1869 Kate Carew [Mary Williams], American caricaturist, born in Oakland, California (d. 1961)

American poet and novelist (Oak & Ivory), born in Dayton, Ohio

Paul Laurence Dunbar

  • 1878 Jean François van Royen, Dutch graphic designer, bibliophile, and Secretary-General of Dutch PTT (Post, Telephone & Telegraph), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1942)

American political activist, author (The Story of My Life) and lecturer, who was the 1st deaf-blind person to earn a BA, born in Tuscumbia, Alabama

Helen Keller

  • 1882 Eduard Spranger, German psychologist and educator, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1963)
  • 1884 Forrester Harvey, Irish actor (Rebecca, Tarzan, Chump at Oxford), born in Cork, Ireland (d. 1945)
  • 1884 Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (La psychanalyse du feu), born in Bar-sur-Aube, France (d. 1962)
  • 1885 Artúr Harmat, Hungarian composer, born in Bojná, Hungary (d. 1962)
  • 1886 Charles Macartney, Australian cricket all-rounder (35 Tests, 2,131 runs @ 41.78, 7 x 100s, 45 wickets), born in West Maitland, Australia (d. 1958)
  • 1888 Antoinette Perry, American stage actress, theater director, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, and namesake of the Tony Award, born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1946)
  • 1888 Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian, born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland (d. 1960)
  • 1889 Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1967)
  • 1889 Moroni Olsen, American actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White), born in Ogden, Utah (d. 1954)
  • 1892 Paul Colin, French poster designer, born in Nancy, France (d. 1985)
  • 1898 Ajla Rachmanova, Russian-Austrian author (Students), born in Kasli, Russia (d. 1991)
  • 1898 Henry Gurney, British colonial administrator (High Commissioner to Malaya, 1948-51), assassinated by communist insurgents, born in Poughill, Cornwall, England (d. 1951)
  • 1898 Tibor Harsányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor who settled Paris, France, born in Magyarkanizsa, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1954)
  • 1899 Juan Trippe, American airline pioneer and entrepreneur (Pan Am founder), born in Sea Bright, New Jersey (d. 1981)
  • 1900 Otto Passman, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana (1947-77), born in Franklinton, Washington Parish Louisiana (d. 1988)
  • 1905 Ruby Middleton Forsythe, African-American teacher who taught for 50 years in one-room schoolhouse in South Carolina, born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1992)
  • 1906 Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy), born in Jarrow, Durham, England (d. 1998)
  • 1906 Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd), born in Maesteg, Wales (d. 1967)
  • 1907 John McIntire, American actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 1991)
  • 1907 Valerie Cossart, British actress (Hartmans), born in London, England (d. 1994)
  • 1908 David Davis, British radio broadcaster (BBC Children’s Hour), born in Malvern, Worcestershire, England (d. 1996)
  • 1908 Hans de Jong, Dutch conductor (De Damrakkertjes; Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), born in Netherlands (d. 1994)
  • 1908 João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands), born in Cordisburgo, Brazil (d. 1967)
  • 1910 Karel Reiner, Czech pianist, composer, and Theresienstadt concentration camp survivor, born in Žatec, Bohemia (d. 1979)
  • 1910 Lester “Shad” Collins, American jazz trumpet player, composer and arranger (Chick Webb; Lester Young: Cab Calloway), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey (d. 1978)
  • 1911 Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr., American 3-year-old who drowned on Lusitania, born in New York City (d. 1915)
  • 1911 V. K. Narayana Menon, Indian classical dance scholar, born in Kerala, British India (d. 1997)
  • 1912 Audrey Christie, American actress (Splendor in the Grass, Fair Exchange), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1989)
  • 1913 Philip Guston, Canadian-American abstract painter, muralist, and printmaker (To Fellini), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1980)
  • 1913 Willie Mosconi, American pool player (World C’ship pocket billiards 1941-57), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1993)
  • 1914 Alexander Pola [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor and writer (Cassata), born in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1992)
  • 1914 Giorgio Almirante, Italian fascist and MP (1948-87), born in Salsomaggiore Terme, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (d. 1988)
  • 1914 Robert Aickman, English writer and conservationist (co-founding the Inland Waterways Association), born in London (d. 1981)
  • 1915 Grace Lee Boggs (née Grace Chin Lee), American philosopher, author (The Next American Revolution), civil rights activist and feminist, born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2015)
  • 1916 Arthur Walter Lucas, first Chief Restorer of the National Gallery, London, born in London (d. 1996)
  • 1916 Hallvard Johnsen, Norwegian flautist, and composer, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 2003)
  • 1916 Robert Normann, Norwegian jazz guitar pioneer, accordionist, and composer, born in Borge, Østfold, Norway (d. 1998)
  • 1917 K. M. Rangnekar, Indian cricketer (batted in 3 Tests India v Australia 1947-48), born in Bombay, India (d. 1984)
  • 1917 Ron Hayward, English politician, General Secretary of the Labour Party, born in Chipping Sodbury, Oxfordshire (d. 1996)
  • 1918 Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (Olympic gold 100m backstroke 1936), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2017)
  • 1920 I. A. L. Diamond, Hollywood screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-Apartment), born in Ungheni, Basarabia (d. 1988)
  • 1921 Muriel Pavlow, British actress (Murder, She Said, Reach for the Sky), born in Lewisham, London (d. 2019)
  • 1922 George Theophilus Walker, African-American pianist, composer and teacher (Lilacs; In Praise Of Folly), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2018)
  • 1922 Herbert Ziergiebel, German writer, born in Nordhorn, Germany (d. 1988)
  • 1923 Elmo Hope, American bebop jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, born in New York City (d. 1967)
  • 1924 Bob Appleyard, English cricketer (superb England off-spinner, brief career), born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (d. 2015)
  • 1924 Efua Sutherland, Ghanaian writer (Nyamekye), born in Cape Coast, Ghana (d. 1996)
  • 1924 Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 2010)
  • 1925 Doc Pomus [Jerome Solon Felder], American blues singer and songwriter (“Save the Last Dance For Me”; “His Latest Flame”; “Viva Las Vegas”), born in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 1991)
  • 1927 Bob Keeshan, American actor (Captain Kangaroo; Howdy Doody, 1948-52 – “Clarabell”), and television producer, born in Lynbrook, New York (d. 2004)
  • 1927 David Hobman, British elder rights activist and first director of Age Concern England, born in England (d. 2003) [1]
  • 1927 Johnny “Big Moose” Walker, American electric and Chicago blues pianist, organist, and bass guitar player (Muddy Waters; Junior Wells; Elmore James), born in Stoneville, Mississippi (d. 1999)
  • 1927 Robert Casey, American actor (Aldrich Family Show – “Henry”; What to Do on a Date), born in Rochester, New York
  • 1928 Rudy Perpich, American politician, 34th & 36th Governor of Minnesota, born in Carson Lake, Minnesota (d. 1995)
  • 1929 Dick the Bruiser [William Fritz Afflis], American professional wrestler, born in Delphi, Indiana (d. 1991)

American businessman (Electronic Data Systems, Perot Systems), billionaire and presidential candidate (1992, 1996), born in Texarkana, Texas

Ross Perot

  • 1930 Tommy Kono, American weightlifter (Olympic gold 67.5kg 1952, 82.5kg 1956; silver 75kg 1960; World C’ship gold x 6), born in Sacramento, California (d. 2016)
  • 1931 Alojz Srebotnjak, Slovenian composer, born in Postojna, Slovenia (d. 2010)
  • 1931 Charles Bronfman, Canadian-American CEO (Seagrams, Montreal Expos) and philanthropist, born in Montreal, Quebec
  • 1931 Eddie Kasko, American baseball infielder (MLB All Star 1961, 1961²; Cincinnati Reds) and manager (Boston Red Sox), born in Linden, New Jersey (d. 2020)
  • 1931 Grant Weatherstone, Scotland rugby union winger (16 caps;
    Edinburgh District), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2020)
  • 1931 Ryszard Kwiatkowski, Polish composer (Polyphonic Music), born in Jaranów, Włocławek, Poland (d. 1993)
  • 1932 Anna Moffo, American soprano (Adventurers), born in Wayne, Pennsylvania (d. 2006)
  • 1932 Hugh Wood, British composer (Song Cycle to Poems of Pablo Neruda), born in Parbold, Lancashire, England (d. 2021)
  • 1932 Joachim Wohlgemuth, German writer, born in Prenzlau, Germany (d. 1996)
  • 1932 Magali Noël [Guiffray], French actress and singer, born in Izmir, Turkey (d. 2015)
  • 1935 Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russian cosmonaut, born in Poltava, Ukraine (d. 1994)
  • 1935 Laurent Terzieff, French actor (Head Over Heels, Milky Way), born in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France (d. 2010)
  • 1935 Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor, born in San Juan, Rizal, Philippines (d. 2007)
  • 1936 John Shalikashvili, Polish-American general (NATO), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 2011)
  • 1936 Lucille Clifton, American poet (Two-Headed Woman), born in Depew, New York (d. 2010)
  • 1937 Joseph P. Allen, American NASA astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A), born in Crawfordsville, Indiana
  • 1938 Bruce Babbitt, American attorney and politician (47th United States Secretary of the Interior), born in Flagstaff, Arizona
  • 1938 Gordon Rorke, Australian cricketer (Australian quickie, 4 Tests at end of 50’s), born in Mosman, New South Wales, Australia
  • 1938 Jake Crouthamel, American football halfback (Boston Patriots), coach (Dartmouth College 1971-77) and administrator (AD Syracuse University 1978–2005), born in Perkasie, Pennsylvania (d. 2022)
  • 1938 Kathryn Beaumont, British voice actress (Alice-Alice in Wonderland), born in London
  • 1938 Shirley Anne Field, English actress (Beat Girl, Kings of the Sun), born in Forest Gate, London
  • 1938 Tommy Cannon [Derbyshire], English comedian and singer (“Cannon and Ball”), born in Oldham, Lancashire, England
  • 1939 Neil Hawke, Australian cricket fast bowler (27 Tests, 91 wickets; South Australia CA), born in Adelaide, Australia (d. 2000)
  • 1939 R. D. Burman, Indian film score composer (1942: A Love Story), born in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1994)
  • 1941 Fevzi Zemzem, Turkish soccer striker (18 caps; AS Göztepe 356 games) and manager (Orduspor), born in İskenderun, Turkey (d. 2022)
  • 1941 James P. Hogan, British sci-fi author (Giants’ Star), born in London (d. 2010)
  • 1941 Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (The Double Life of Veronique), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1996)
  • 1942 Bruce Johnston [Benjamin Baldwin], American singer (The Beach Boys), songwriter (“I Write The Songs”), and record producer, born in Peoria, Illinois
  • 1942 Frank Mills, Canadian pianist, composer and arranger (Music Box Dancer), born in Montreal, Quebec
  • 1942 John Howard McGuire, American composer, born in Artesia, California
  • 1943 Harm Ottenbros, Dutch bicycle racer (World C’ships gold men’s road race 1969), born in Alkmaar, Netherlands (d. 2022)
  • 1943 Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress (Offshore), born in Oslo, Norway
  • 1943 Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), born in Brooklyn, New York
  • 1944 Kees [Cornelis Johannes] Ouwens, Dutch writer and poet (Intimate Acts), born in Zeist, Netherlands (d. 2004)
  • 1944 Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist, 1K time trial (Olympic gold 1964), born in Roeselare, West Flanders, Belgium
  • 1944 Will Jennings, American Grammy and Academy Award-winning lyricist (Celine Dion – “My Heart Will Go On”; Steve Winwood – “Higher Love”; Eric Clapton – “Tears in Heaven”), born in Kilgore, Texas (d. 2024)
  • 1945 Catherine Lacoste, French golfer (US Women’s Open 1967), born in Paris, France
  • 1945 Joel Revzen, American opera conductor and pianist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2020)
  • 1945 Joey Covington [Michno], American drummer (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and Jefferson Starship), born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
  • 1945 John M. Veitch, American thoroughbred horse trainer (Breeders’ Cup Classic 1985 [Proud Truth]; Alydar; National Museum of Racing HOF), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 2023)
  • 1945 Norma Kamali, American dress designer (Costumes for the Wiz), born in New York City
  • 1945 Omar Badsha, South African photographer, trade unionist and political activist, born in Durban, South Africa
  • 1946 Daria Semegen, German-American electro-acoustic and classical composer, and educator, born in Bamberg, West Germany [1]
  • 1946 Janice Giteck, American composer (Thunder; Like a White Bear Dancing), born in New York
  • 1946 Sally Priesand, 1st U.S. woman rabbi, born in Cleveland, Ohio
  • 1947 Jim Fuller, American “Godfather of surf guitar” and songwriter (The Surfaris – “Wipe Out”), born in Monrovia, California (d. 2017)
  • 1948 Angel Penna Jr., horse trainer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 1948 Bill Summers, American jazz, fusion, and Afro-Cuban jazz percussionist and conguero (Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters; Sonny Rollins; Quincy Jones), born in Detroit, Michigan
  • 1948 Camile Baudoin, American guitarist (The Radiators), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • 1949 Vera Wang, American fashion designer (Vera Wang Fashions), born in New York City
  • 1950 Ben Peterson, American freestyle wrestler (Olympic gold 90kg 1972), born in Barron County, Wisconsin
  • 1951 Gilson Lavis, British session and touring rock drummer (Squeeze; Jools Holland), born in Bedford, England
  • 1951 Julia Duffy [Hinds], American actress (Newhart – “Stephanie”; Designing Woman, 1991-92 – “Allison”; Baby Talk), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • 1951 Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland (1997-2011), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • 1951 Sidney M. Gutierrez, Mjr USAF and NASA astronaut (STS 40, 59), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • 1951 Ulf Andersson, Swedish International Chess Grandmaster (1972), born in Västerås, Sweden
  • 1952 Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)), born in Taplejung, Nepal (d. 1993)
  • 1953 Kent Bostick, American pursuit cyclist (Olympics-84, 96), born in Lowell, Massachusetts
  • 1955 Isabelle Adjani, French actress (Story of Adele H, Driver, Ishtar), born in Paris, France
  • 1955 Sam Tshabalala, South African guitarist, and composer (The Malopoets; Sabeka), born in South Africa
  • 1956 Brad Childress, American collegiate and professional football coach, born in Aurora, Illinois
  • 1956 Jeff Odintz, American horse trainer, born in Brooklyn, New York City
  • 1956 Ted Haggard, American disgraced evangelical preacher (New Life Church, Colorado), born in Yorktown, Indiana
  • 1958 Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer and songwriter (The Gun Club), born in Montebello, California (d. 1996)
  • 1958 Lisa Germano, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (Geek the Girl), born in Mishawaka, Indiana
  • 1958 Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer, born in Helsinki, Finland
  • 1958 Robert Newman, American actor (Joshua Lewis-Guiding Light), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1959 Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer (The Death of Superman), born in Ortonville, Minnesota

Janusz Kamiński

  • 1959 Khadja Nin, Burundian Afro-pop singer (Sambolera), born in Usumbura, Kingdom of Burundi
  • 1959 Lorrie Morgan, American country singer (Out of Your Shoes), born in Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1960 Brian Dillinger, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs), born in Brooklyn, New York
  • 1960 Jim Nussle, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa (2003-07), born in Des Moines, Iowa
  • 1961 Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress (Goodness Gracious Me), born in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England
  • 1961 Tim Whitnall, English actor (Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story), born in Canvey Island, Essex, England
  • 1962 Michael Ball, British pop and theatrical singer and actor, born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
  • 1962 Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chinese actor (In the Mood for Love), born in Hong Kong
  • 1963 Johnny Benson Jr., American NASCAR driver, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • 1963 Paul Roos, Australian rules footballer, born in Melbourne, Australia
  • 1964 Chuck Person, American NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs), born in Brantley, Alabama
  • 1964 James Sanders, American classical, and jazz violinist, and educator, born in Chicago, Illinois
  • 1964 Michel Bénébig, New Caledonian jazz Hammond B-3 organ, and accordion player, born in Nouméa City, New Calédonia
  • 1964 Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch film producer and director, born in Doorwerth, Netherlands
  • 1966 Giambattista Valli, Italian fashion designer, born in Rome, Italy

1966 American writer, producer and director (Lost, Star Wars: the Force Awakens), born in New York City

J. J. Abrams

  • 1966 Jeff Conine, American MLB outfielder (Florida Marlins), born in Tacoma, Washington
  • 1966 Mercedes Paz, Argentine tennis star (1990 Strasbourg), born in Tucumán, Argentina
  • 1966 Rob Harbison, American 3×40 rifle shooter (Olympic 6th 1996), born in Fallston, Maryland
  • 1967 Lester Archambeau, American NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons), born in Montville, New Jersey
  • 1967 Michelle Torres, American tennis star, born in Chicago, Illinois
  • 1968 Pascale Bussières, French Canadian actress (Blanche), born in Montreal, Quebec
  • 1970 Jim Edmonds, American MLB baseball outfielder, 1993-2010, 4X All-Star, 8X Gold Glove (California/Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, and 4 other teams), born in Fullerton, California
  • 1970 Petra Langrová, tennis star (1995 Palermo doubles), born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia
  • 1971 Brant Boyer, American football linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars), born in Ogden, Utah
  • 1971 Jo Frost, British television personality (Supernanny), born in London, England
  • 1971 Yancey Arias, American actor (Kingpin, Thief), born in New York City
  • 1973 Heath Irwin, American football guard (New England Patriots), born in Boulder, Colorado
  • 1973 Jennifer Brundage, American softball infielder (Olympic gold 1996), born in Orange, California
  • 1974 Christian Kane, American actor (Leverage, The Librarians), born in Dallas, Texas
  • 1975 Ace Darling [Michael Maraldo], American professional wrestler, born in Wildwood, New Jersey
  • 1975 Bianca del Rio [Roy Haylock], American drag queen, comedian, actor and costume designer (RuPaul’s Drag Race season 6 winner), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • 1975 Porter Collins, American rower (World C’ship gold 1995 M4+, 1998-99 M8+), born in New York City

1975 American actor (Spider-Man, The Great Gatsby), born in Santa Monica, California

Tobey Maguire

  • 1976 Johnny Estrada, American baseball player, born in Hayward, California
  • 1976 Leigh Nash, American pop singer and songwriter (Sixpence None The Richer -“Kiss Me”), born in New Braunfels, Texas
  • 1977 Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer (Veendam), born in Gniezno, Poland
  • 1977 Raúl, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid), born in Madrid, Spain

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  • 404 Arsacius of Tarsus is installed as puppet Archbishop of Constantinople after the expulsion of John Chrysostom, prompting people of the city to worship outside the city walls in protest
  • 678 St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope
  • 992 Battle of Conquereuil won by the Count of Anjou, Fulk the Black, defeating Conan I, Count of Brittany, in western France
  • 1192 Ladislaus I, Árpád dynasty King (1077-95) venerated as Roman Catholic saint
  • 1358 Republic of Dubrovnik is founded

Cabrillo Departs

1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sets sail from the Mexican port of Navidad on the first European voyage to explore the west coast of North America for the Spanish Empire

  • 1552 Cathedral Church of Charcas established in Charcas, Spanish Empire (later La Plata, now Sucre, Bolivia) [1]
  • 1580 Duke of Alva’s army occupies Portugal
  • 1598 Disastrous Dutch expedition to find new spice routes and harass Spanish territories leaves Rotterdam, only one of the five ships with just 36 crew ever return [1]
  • 1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America
  • 1693 First Sea Battle of Lagos: French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeats an Anglo-Dutch fleet under George Rooke
  • 1697 Polish parliament selects monarch August of Saxony as king

Battle of Poltava

1709 Great Northern War: Peter the Great of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava; Charles goes into exile in Bender, Ottoman Empire

1743 War of the Austrian Succession: King George II of Britain personally leads Allied troops to victory in the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria. The last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field.

Bonnie Prince Charlie Slips Away

1746 Flora MacDonald helps Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as Betty Burke an Irish maid, evade capture by landing him on the Isle of Skye

  • 1756 French fleet conquer St Philips Castle of Minorca

Siege of Quebec

1759 British general James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.

1778 Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure

Louis XVI Orders Meeting

1789 French Revolution: King Louis XVI orders the nobility and clergy of the Estates-General to meet with the Third Estate, by then called the National Assembly

  • 1806 Buenos Aires captured by British
  • 1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecticut
  • 1847 New York and Boston are linked by telegraph wires
  • 1857 Bibighar massacre of 120 British women and children following the siege of Cawnpore

Donnelly Freud Intensifies

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

  • 1860 First running of the Queen’s Plate at Toronto’s Carleton Track – North America’s oldest continuously run horse race [1]
  • 1862 -28] Battle at Garnett’s/Golding’s Farms, Virginia
  • 1862 Battle of Gaines’s Mill, VA (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3
  • 1863 Skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

1864 US Civil War: Atlanta Campaign – Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia: Union General Sherman makes unsuccessful frontal attack on Confederate defense

  • 1864 US Civil War: Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia: Colonel Sherman makes unsuccessful frontal attack on Confederate defensive lin
  • 1867 Bank of California opens doors
  • 1876 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Philadelphia Athletics)
  • 1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate
  • 1890 Canadian boxer George Dixon becomes first black world champion when he stops English bantamweight champion Edwin “Nunc” Wallace in 18 rounds in London, England
  • 1893 Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
  • 1894 American Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] sets out from Boston to become first woman to bicycle around the world (completes journey September 1895)

Majors and Minors

1896 Review of Paul Laurence Dunbar‘s second book, “Majors and Minors” by William Dean Howells in “Harper’s Weekly” brings the poet to national attention

1898 Canadian-American adventurer Joshua Slocum arrives in Newport, Rhode Island, completing the 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe

  • 1905 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is established at “The “Continental Congress of the Working Class” in Chicago, Illinois; members include representatives of the Socialist Labor Party/Socialist Trades & Labor Alliance, Socialist Party of America, Western Federation of Miners and the International Working People’s Association
  • 1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship “Potemkin” and sail for Odessa
  • 1906 The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) established in London with Lord Kelvin as President to standardize electrical units and terms [1]

Johnson vs Moran

1914 Defending champion Jack Johnson beats fellow American Frank Moran on points in 20 rounds in Paris, France to retain his lineal 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

Greece Joins the Allies

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

  • 1918 Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle sunk by German U-boat off southern Ireland – only 24 of 258 people on board survive (U-boat officers later charged with war crimes) [1]
  • 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 First color television demonstration is performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC
  • 1929 German President Paul von Hindenburg refuses to pay the German reparation debt of WWI
  • 1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
  • 1935 Danno O’Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ
  • 1939 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)
  • 1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Bees, 2-2 in 23 innings; called on account of darkness after 5 hours 15 minutes
  • 1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania

1940 USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar, using Sunday as a rest day, after 6 years using a Russian six-day 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, D.C. (NBC) begins broadcasting
  • 1949 “Captain Video & His Video Rangers” debut on DUMONT-TV – Television’s first sci-fi series

US Enters Korean War

1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, causing the UN to ask member states to aid South Korea. Harry Truman orders the US Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict.

  • 1950 South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
  • 1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
  • 1953 Joseph Laniel appointed French premier

Guatemalan Government Overthrown

1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala and force President Jacobo Árbenz to resign

  • 1954 First nuclear power station opens, in Obninsk near Moscow, Russia
  • 1954 Hungary beats Brazil, 4-2 in the “Battle of Berne” as FIFA World Cup quarter-final descends into an all-out brawl with 3 players sent-off; fighting continues in dressing rooms after final whistle
  • 1955 “Julius LaRosa Show” debuts on CBS-TV
  • 1955 First automobile seat belt legislation enacted, in Illinois
  • 1956 MLB Cleveland Indians trailing Baltimore 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 between smoking 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
  • 1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
  • 1960 Chlorophyll “A” synthesized in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Election of Interest

1960 Joseph Kasa-Vubu is sworn in as the 1st President of the Republic of the Congo after being elected by the two chambers of Parliament

  • 1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
  • 1961 Ghana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
  • 1962 Dutch soccer clubs Rapid JC and Roda Sports merge to form Roda JC Kerkrade; KNVB Cup winners 1996–97, 1999–2000
  • 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 further restrictions to banning orders

  • 1963 Billy J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon-McCartney song “I Call Your Name”
  • 1963 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but teammate centerfielder Tony Gonzalez’s error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games
  • 1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth, flying in X-15 rocket powered aircraft, reaches altitude 285,000 feet (86,868 meters)
  • 1964 “Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)” by Die Beatles peaks at #97
  • 1966 Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV
  • 1967 Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)
  • 1967 World’s first ATM is installed by Barclays Bank in Enfield, London
  • 1968 Ludvik Vaculik publishes “Manifest of 2000 words” in Prague
  • 1969 Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match

Music History

1970 Festival Express opens in Toronto, Canada – The Grateful Dead, The Band, Janis Joplin, Flying Burrito Bros, Buddy Guy, Great Speckled Bird, and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends cross Canada together by train, for 5 shows in 3 cities

  • 1970 Following the arrest of Bernadette Devlin, intense riots erupt in Derry and Belfast leading to a prolonged gun battle between Irish republicans and loyalists
  • 1971 Bill Graham’s New York rock venue Fillmore East closes down, to be succeeded by Fillmore West in San Francisco

Film & TV History

1972 Legendary video game and home computer Atari, Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California

Live & Let Die

1973 “Live & Let Die”, 8th James Bond Film, 1st to star Roger Moore, also starring Jane Seymour, 1st released in the US

  • 1973 John Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon’s “enemies list”
  • 1973 Uruguayan president Juan Maria Bordaberry dissolves parliament and heads a coup d’état – beginning of the civic-military dictatorship
  • 1974 American TV variety program “The Flip Wilson Show” last airs on NBC-TV, after 4 seasons, winning 2 Emmy Awards
  • 1974 US President Nixon visits USSR
  • 1976 Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers, members of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany
  • 1976 In South Africa, the National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness
  • 1976 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president
  • 1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
  • 1977 Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France
  • 1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1
  • 1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
  • 1978 US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit

Sports History

1979 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final (it isn’t)

  • 1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
  • 1980 1st female state police graduates (NJ)
  • 1980 Dodgers’ Jerry Reuss no-hits SF Giants 8-0
  • 1980 Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
  • 1980 US revives draft registration

Assassination Attempt

1981 Ali Khamenei narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, when a bomb concealed in a tape recorder, explodes on a desk in front of him

  • 1981 Cambodia adopts its constitution
  • 1981 Pamela Jenks, aged 21, is crowned the 14th Miss Black America
  • 1982 “Play Me a Country Song” opens & closes at Virginia Theater NYC
  • 1982 4th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 4 (STS-4) launches
  • 1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds – Joan Miro
  • 1983 Maxie Anderson and Don Ida, American balloonists, die during a crash landing in endurance race in Schweinfurt, West Germany
  • 1983 MLB Seattle Mariners bat out of order against Chicago White Sox in 2nd inning
  • 1983 NASA launches space vehicle S-205
  • 1983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
  • 1984 Fire destroys a set in “A View to a Kill”
  • 1984 Late Night’s 1st Tower Drop
  • 1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
  • 1985 First hotel strike in New York City
  • 1985 Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica) is decommissioned
  • 1986 American tennis player Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing a white, one-piece, lycra body suit in 1st round match against Pam Shriver; wears regular outfit after rain break

Event of Interest

1986 Ibrahim Babangida‘s regime in Nigeria launches the ‘Structural Adjustment Program” to restructure the Nigerian economy via deregulation and privatization with the support of the IMF and the World Bank

  • 1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
  • 1986 Robby Thompson (SF Giants) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
  • 1986 South African Journalist and founder of the ‘New Nation’ newspaper, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted; he was released 721 days later on 2 December 1988
  • 1986 US informs New Zealand it will no longer defend NZ against attack due to its nuclear-free policy
  • 1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
  • 1987 “The Living Daylights”, 15th James Bond film, 1st film to star Timothy Dalton premieres in London
  • 1987 In South Africa, the Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed

Boxing Title Fight

1988 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)

  • 1988 Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning

Contract of Interest

1990 Jose Canseco signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A’s contract

  • 1990 NBA Draft: Syracuse power forward Derrick Coleman first pick by New Jersey Nets

Event of Interest

1990 Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8,600 to help earthquake victims in the country

  • 1992 Dan O’Brien fails on pole vault & eliminated from Olympics decathlon
  • 1992 Daryl Gates retires as LA police chief

Music History

1993 Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song “It’s Not Easy Being Green” to President Clinton

  • 1993 NY Met pitcher Anthony Young loses record 24th straight game
  • 1994 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood, New Mexico a state record
  • 1994 Aerosmith is the first major band to let fans download a full new track for free from the internet
  • 1994 NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
  • 1995 Holland’s debut in English domestic comp (v Northants, NatWest)
  • 1995 Mason City Iowa’s TV news personality Jodi Huisentruit disappears
  • 1995 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches
  • 1995 William Alford, an engineer for rival radio station WMMS, is sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined $1,000 for cutting the feed during Howard Stern’s live broadcast from Cleveland
  • 1998 Kuala Lumpur International Airport opens in Malaysia
  • 1998 NHL Draft: Rimouski Oceanic (QMJHL) center Vincent Lecavalier first pick by Tampa Bay Lightning
  • 1999 ATB go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with “9pm, Till I Come”
  • 1999 The Chemical Brothers go #1 on the UK album chart with ‘Surrender’, their second #1 album

Sports History

1999 Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to land a “900”, (a 2-½ revolution aerial spin), at the X Games in San Francisco, California

  • 2001 NBA Draft: Glynn Academy center Kwame Brown first pick by Washington Wizards

Beatification

2001 Pope John Paul II beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.

  • 2001 The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
  • 2003 The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
  • 2005 “Bad Day” single is released by Daniel Powter, 1st song to sell 2 million digital copies in the US (Billboard Song of the Year 2006)

Event of Interest

2005 AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.

  • 2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.

Event of Interest

2008 Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

  • 2009 The Tower of Hercules in northern Spain – only preserved Roman lighthouse still in use is inscribed as a World Heritage Site [1]
  • 2013 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Anthony Bennett first pick Cleveland Cavaliers
  • 2013 Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is re-elected President of Mongolia
  • 2014 NHL Coyotes franchise changes geographic name from “Phoenix” to “Arizona” after change of ownership
  • 2016 US Supreme Court strikes down Texas law restricting abortion 5-3
  • 2017 African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina wins the World Food Prize

Event of Interest

2017 Colombia’s rebel group FARC officially end armed existence after 52 years in ceremony with President Juan Manuel Santos in Mesetas

  • 2017 European Union fines Google record $2.7 billion for unfair competition practices
  • 2017 Petya malware cyber-attack affects organisations in more than 64 countries

Sports History

2017 Tennis star Serena Williams poses pregnant and nude for the cover of “Vanity Fair”

  • 2018 Complex carbon-based molecules found by Cassini spacecraft on Saturn moon Enceladus, previously only ever found on earth and meteorites in research published in “Nature”

Election of Interest

2018 Democrat Representative Joseph Crowley is defeated in New York Primary election by liberal challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

  • 2018 French government introduces plan to bring back national service for 16 year-olds
  • 2018 Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 arrives at diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu

Event of Interest

2018 Malaysian police announce seizure of goods linked to former prime minister Najib Razak, worth $273 million, biggest in the country’s history, including 567 handbags and 14 tiaras

  • 2018 President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and former Vice President Riek MacharSouth sign peace deal to end four-year civil war

Event of Interest

2018 US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announces he will retire on July 31

  • 2019 Chief Apple designer Jony Ive, designer of the iMac and the iPhone, announces he is leaving Apple after 30 years
  • 2019 US Supreme Court rules 2020 census cannot contain a question about citizenship in a 5-4 ruling
  • 2019 US Supreme Court rules the Constitution doesn’t prohibit partisan gerrymandering, allowing a ruling party to redraw electoral boundaries
  • 2020 Ireland’s coalition government appoints Micheál Martin as Prime Minister after four months of negotiations
  • 2020 Locust invasion labelled ‘Swarmageddon’ by The Times of India as it reaches Delhi
  • 2021 Boat sinks off Tunisia, drowning 43 migrants with 84 rescued by Tunisian navy [1]
  • 2021 Heat dome envelops the Pacific Northwest with Portland posting highest temperature since records began of 112 F (broken the next day)
  • 2021 Hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada at 46.6 C (116 F) in Lytton, British Columbia (breaks record 2 days later with 49.6 C)
  • 2022 51 migrants die after being found inside an abandoned truck in San Antonio, Texas in extreme heat, with 16 people hospitalized [1]
  • 2022 First rocket launch in Australia for 25 years and NASA’s first commercial spaceport outside the US for sub-orbital rocket from Arnhem Space Centre, Northern Territory [1]
  • 2022 Russian missile strike on Ukrainian shopping center in Kremenchuk, with 1000 people inside kills at least 13 [1]
  • 2023 Archaeologists in Roman city of Pompeii uncover a “pizza” painting in a fresco from house next to a bakery (more likely flatbread as lacks essential ingredients tomatoes and mozzarella) [1]
  • 2023 Austrian artist Gustav Klimt’s last completed portrait “Dame mit Fächer” (Lady with a Fan) sells for £85.3 million ($108.4 million) in London – most expensive artwork sold at a European auction [1]
  • 2023 French police officer shoots dead a 17-year old at a traffic stop in Paris, prompting a wave of violent protests across the country [1]

Seacrest to Host Wheel of Fortune

2023 Ryan Seacrest announced as the new host of “Wheel of Fortune”, to replace long-time host Pat Sajak in 2024 [1]

  • 2023 US Supreme Court rejects the “independent state legislature” theory that would have given state legislatures power to set rules for federal elections and draw congressional maps [1]

Biden Debates Trump

2024 First debate between presumptive US presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump, hosted by CNN, raises fears about Biden as he appears to stumble with his words [1]

Event of Interest

2025 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: The 1975, Neil Young, and Olivia Rodrigo headline; other performers include Rod Stewart, The Script, Nile Rodgers & Chic; Charli XCX, John Fogerty, and The Searchers

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Major Events

  • 1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sets sail from the Mexican port of Navidad on the first European voyage to explore the west coast of North America for the Spanish Empire
  • 1709 Great Northern War: Peter the Great of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava; Charles goes into exile in Bender, Ottoman Empire
  • 1743 War of the Austrian Succession: King George II of Britain personally leads Allied troops to victory in the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria. The last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field.
  • 1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship “Potemkin” and sail for Odessa
  • 1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
  • 1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, causing the UN to ask member states to aid South Korea. Harry Truman orders the US Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict.
  • 1954 First nuclear power station opens, in Obninsk near Moscow, Russia
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Jun 27 in Film & TV

  • 1949 “Captain Video & His Video Rangers” debut on DUMONT-TV – Television’s first sci-fi series

Jun 27 in Music

  • 1994 Aerosmith is the first major band to let fans download a full new track for free from the internet

Jun 27 in Sport

  • 1890 Canadian boxer George Dixon becomes first black world champion when he stops English bantamweight champion Edwin “Nunc” Wallace in 18 rounds in London, England
  • 1999 Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to land a “900”, (a 2-½ revolution aerial spin), at the X Games in San Francisco, California

Did You Know?

World’s first ATM is installed by Barclays Bank in Enfield, London

June 27, 1967


Fun Fact About June 27

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

June 27, 1652

Famous Weddings

  • 1524 Earl Henry III of Nassau weds Mencia de Medoza, 16-years old marquess
  • 1895 American journalist Ida B. Wells (32) weds American attorney Ferdinand L. Barnett (43) at Bethel AME Church in Chicago
  • 1948 American handheld calculator inventor Jack Kilby (24) weds Barbara Annegers

Famous Divorces

  • 2007 Former Playboy playmate and Baywatch actress Donna D’Errico (38) divorces Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx (48) due to irreconcilable differences after 9 years of marriage

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