Editing June 27 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1358]] &ndash; The [[Republic of Ragusa]] is founded.
*[[1497]] &ndash; [[Cornwall|Cornish]] rebels [[Michael An Gof]] and [[Thomas Flamank]] are executed at [[Tyburn]], London, England.
*[[1499]] &ndash; [[Amerigo Vespucci]] sights what is now [[Amapá]] State in Brazil.<ref>{{cite book|first=Clifton|last=Daniel|title=Chronicle of America|publisher=Chronicle publication|year=1989|page=18|isbn=0-13-133745-9}}</ref> 
*[[1556]] &ndash; The thirteen [[Stratford Martyrs]] are [[burned at the stake]] near London for their [[Protestant]] beliefs.
===1601–1900===
*[[1743]] &ndash; In the [[Battle of Dettingen]], [[George II of Great Britain|George II]] becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
*[[1760]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Cherokee War]]: [[Cherokee]] warriors defeat [[British Empire|British]] forces at the [[Battle of Echoee]] near present-day [[Otto, North Carolina]].
*[[1806]] &ndash; British forces take [[Buenos Aires]] during the first of the [[British invasions of the River Plate]].
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Joseph Smith]], founder of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]], and his brother [[Hyrum Smith]], are [[Death of Joseph Smith|killed by a mob]] at the [[Carthage, Illinois]] jail.
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the [[Battle of Kennesaw Mountain]] during the [[Atlanta Campaign]].
*[[1895]] &ndash; The inaugural run of the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]]'s [[Royal Blue (train)|''Royal Blue'']] from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use [[electric locomotives]].
*[[1898]] &ndash; The first solo [[circumnavigation]] of the globe is completed by [[Joshua Slocum]] from Briar Island, [[Nova Scotia]].
===1901–present===
*[[1905]] &ndash; During the [[Russo-Japanese War]], sailors start a mutiny aboard the [[Russian battleship Potemkin|Russian battleship ''Potemkin'']].
*[[1914]] &ndash; The [[Illinois Monument]] is dedicated at [[Cheatham Hill]] in what is now the [[Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Illinois Monument (U.S. National Park Service)|url=https://www.nps.gov/places/the-illinois-monument.htm|access-date=2021-05-18|website=www.nps.gov|language=en|archive-date=2021-05-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517210832/https://www.nps.gov/places/the-illinois-monument.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> 
*[[1924]] &ndash; The [[Johor–Singapore Causeway]] opens after five years of construction, providing a land connection for road and rail vehicles travelling between [[Johor]] and [[Singapore]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historic Causeway turning 100 |url=https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2024/06/25/historic-causeway-turning-100 |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=The Star |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Here's how the Johor-Singapore Causeway evolved over 100 years |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2024/06/causeway-100-years/index.html |access-date=2024-06-27 |work=[[The Straits Times]] |language=en |issn=0585-3923}}</ref>
*[[1927]] &ndash; [[Prime Minister of Japan]] [[Tanaka Giichi]] convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss [[Empire of Japan|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. 
*[[1928]] &ndash; The [[Rovaniemi]] township decree is promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi secedes from the [[Rovaniemen maalaiskunta|old rural municipality]] as its own market town on January 1, 1929.<ref>[https://www.lapinkansa.fi/tallaista-oli-elama-rovaniemen-kauppalassa-ennen-k/493640 Tällaista oli elämä Rovaniemen kauppalassa ennen kuin siitä tuli kaupunki – lapsia oli niin paljon, että koulut olivat tupaten täynnä, teiden kunnosta naristiin ja ulkopaikkakuntalaiset rötöstelivät] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902030925/https://www.lapinkansa.fi/tallaista-oli-elama-rovaniemen-kauppalassa-ennen-k/493640 |date=2021-09-02 }} – ''Lapin Kansa'' (in Finnish)</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[Romania in World War II|Romanian authorities]] launch [[Iași pogrom|one of the most violent pogrom]]s in Jewish history in the city of [[Iași]], resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
*  1941 &ndash; [[World War II]]: German troops capture the city of [[Białystok]] during [[Operation Barbarossa]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: [[Mogaung]] is the first place in [[Burma]] to be [[Battle of Mogaung|liberated from the Japanese]] by British [[Chindits]], supported by the Chinese.<ref>{{cite book |last=Allen|first= Louis |title=Burma: The Longest War, 1941–45 |year=1998 |publisher=Phoenix Giant |location=London |pages= 374–75|isbn=0-7538-0221-X}}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; In the [[Canadian Citizenship Act 1946|Canadian Citizenship Act]], the [[Parliament of Canada]] establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
*[[1950]] &ndash; The United States decides to send troops to fight in the [[Korean War]].
*[[1954]] &ndash; The [[Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant]], the [[Soviet Union]]'s first [[nuclear power station]], opens in [[Obninsk]], near Moscow.
*  1954 &ndash; The [[1954 FIFA World Cup|FIFA World Cup]] quarterfinal match between [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]] and [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]], highly anticipated to be exciting, instead [[Battle of Berne (1954 FIFA World Cup)|turns violent]], with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Hurricane Audrey]] makes landfall near the [[Texas]]–[[Louisiana]] border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around [[Cameron, Louisiana]].
*[[1973]] &ndash; The [[President of Uruguay]] [[Juan María Bordaberry]] dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[President of the United States|U.S.]] president [[Richard Nixon]] visits the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[1976]] &ndash; [[Air France]] [[Entebbe raid|Flight 139]] ([[Tel Aviv]]-[[Athens]]-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine|PFLP]] and redirected to [[Entebbe]], Uganda.
*[[1977]] &ndash; France grants independence to [[Djibouti]].
*1977 &ndash; [[Constitution for the Federation of Earth]] was adopted by the second session of the [[Second World Constituent Assembly|World Constituent Assembly]], held at [[Innsbruck]], Austria.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Preparing earth constitution {{!}} Global Strategies & Solutions {{!}} The Encyclopedia of World Problems |url=http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/strategy/193465 |url-status= |access-date=2023-07-15 |website=The Encyclopedia of World Problems {{!}} Union of International Associations (UIA)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=PANDIT |first=M. P. |url=http://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.20553 |title=WORLD UNION (JANUARY-DECEMBER) 1981 |date=1981 |publisher=WORLD UNION INTERNATIONAL, INDIA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Amerasinghe |first=Terence P. |title=Emerging World Law, Volume 1 |publisher=Institute for Economic Democracy |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-933567-16-7 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1980]] &ndash; The 'Ustica massacre': [[Itavia Flight 870]] crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.
*[[1981]] &ndash; The [[Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party]] 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]].
*[[1982]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']] launched from the [[Kennedy Space Center]] on the final research and development flight mission, [[STS-4]].
*[[1988]] &ndash; The [[Gare de Lyon rail accident]] in [[Paris]], France, kills 56 people.
*  1988 &ndash; [[Villa Tunari massacre]]: [[UMOPAR|Bolivian anti-narcotics police]] kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting [[Cocalero|coca-growing peasants]].<ref name="bolivian-reality-29">{{Cite book|title=Coca, cocaine, and the Bolivian reality|editor=Madeline Barbara Léons, Harry Sanabria|publisher=SUNY Press|year=1997|pages=29|isbn=978-0-7914-3482-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0uPCUxT_rsAC&q=umopar&pg=PA264|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2021-09-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918082904/https://books.google.com/books?id=0uPCUxT_rsAC&q=umopar&pg=PA264|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="gomez-bolivia-greenlee">{{Cite news|url=http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/luis-gomez/2006/02/bolivias-political-moment-part-ii-contradictions-response-viceroy-greenl|title=Bolivia's Political Moment, Part II: Contradictions in Response to Viceroy Greenlee|last=Gomez|first=Luis|date=February 28, 2006|work=Narco News|access-date=5 February 2010|archive-date=16 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316191230/http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/luis-gomez/2006/02/bolivias-political-moment-part-ii-contradictions-response-viceroy-greenl|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="wsws-massacre">{{Cite news|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/oct2003/boli-o14.shtml|title=Bolivian troops massacre strikers|last=Uco|first=César|author2=Bill Vann|date=14 October 2003|work=World Socialist Web Site|publisher=International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)|access-date=5 February 2010|archive-date=6 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064331/http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/oct2003/boli-o14.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="nsn-weekly-update-2002">{{Cite news|date=October 6, 2002|title=Bolivia: Cocaleros Sign Truce|work=WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE ON THE AMERICAS|publisher=NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY NETWORK OF GREATER NEW YORK|issue=266|url=http://www.tulane.edu/~libweb/RESTRICTED/WEEKLY/2002_1006.txt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701041314/http://www.tulane.edu/~libweb/RESTRICTED/WEEKLY/2002_1006.txt|archive-date=July 1, 2016|url-status=live|access-date=5 February 2010}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; Two days after it had declared independence, [[Slovenia]] is invaded by [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the [[Ten-Day War]].
*[[1994]] &ndash; Members of the [[Aum Shinrikyo]] cult [[Matsumoto sarin attack|release sarin gas]] in [[Matsumoto, Nagano|Matsumoto]], Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[Tony Blair]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]], a position he had held since 1997. His [[Chancellor of the Exchequer|Chancellor]], [[Gordon Brown]] succeeds him. 
*  2007 &ndash; The [[Brazilian Military Police]] invades the ''[[favela]]s'' of [[Complexo do Alemão]] in an episode which is remembered as the [[Complexo do Alemão massacre]].
*[[2008]] &ndash; In a [[2008 Zimbabwean general election|highly scrutinized 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 [[Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai|his party]]'s supporters.
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[NASA]] launches the [[Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph]] space probe to observe the Sun.
*[[2014]] &ndash; At least fourteen people are killed when a [[GAIL|Gas Authority of India Limited]] pipeline [[2014 GAIL pipeline explosion|explodes]] in the [[East Godavari district]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]], India.
*[[2015]] &ndash; [[2015 New Taipei water park fire|Formosa Fun Coast fire]]: A [[Dust explosion|dust fire]] occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.
*[[2017]] &ndash; A [[2017 Ukraine ransomware attacks|series of powerful cyberattacks]] using the [[Petya (malware)|Petya]] malware target websites of [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.
*[[2024]] – [[President of the United States|U.S. president]] [[Joe Biden]] [[2024 United States presidential debates#June 27: First presidential debate (CNN, Atlanta)|debates]] former U.S president [[Donald Trump]]. The debate leads to Biden's [[Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election|withdrawal]] from the [[2024 United States presidential election|election]] on July 21.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-22 |title=President Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/president-joe-biden-drops-2024-presidential-race-rcna159867 |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>