Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. Chancellor Gordon Brown succeeds him. Tony Blair was born on May…
Tag: 27 June
27 June 1864
Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, fought on June 27, 1864,…
27 June 1556
The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs. The Thirteen Stratford Martyrs were a group of Protestant Christians…
27 June 1950
The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War. The Korean War was a conflict that took place on the Korean…
27 June 2013
NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
27 June 1976
Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe’]
27 June 1950
The USA decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War. On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering…