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Today in History ~ June 27
National Fink Day
Events1461 - Edward IV crowned king of England
1519 - King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German emperor Charles V
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain
1580 - Duke of Alba's army occupies Portugal
1652 - New Amsterdam (now NYC) passes 1st speed limit law in US
1748 - Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed
1762 - Russian Tsarina Catharine II grabs power
1776 - Charleston, South Carolina repulses British sea attack
1778 - Liberty Bell came home to Phila after the British had left
1787 - Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
1806 - Buenos Aires captured by British
1829 - In Genoa, Italy, English scientist James Smithson died, leaving behind a will with an interesting clause. In the event that his only nephew died without any heirs, Smithson decreed that the whole of his estate go to "the United States of America, to found at Washington, the Smithsonian Institution."[H]
1844 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
1847 - New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
1859 - "Happy Birthday to You" Composed Mildred J. Hill, a schoolteacher in Kentucky, composed the melody of the song, "Happy Birthday to You." Her sister, Patty Smith Hill, was the author of the lyrics, which were published in 1893 as "Good Morning to All."
1862 - Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, VA
1863 - Skirmish at Fairfax (Courthouse) Virginia
1864 - Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Kennesaw Mountain GA [H]
1867 - Bank of Calif opens doors
1893 - The New York stock market crashed, the value of the U.S. silver dollar fell to less than 60 cents in gold.
1902 - US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
1905 - Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin"
1917 - Raggedy Ann doll invented
1924 - Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93
1928 - Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention
1929 - 1st color TV demo - NYC
1929 - Pres Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I
1934 - Federal Savings & Loan Association created
1934 - Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knifes) where massive purge of SA (storm troopers) was carried out to placate the Army and the high command
1935 - FDR orders a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky
1940 - End of USSR experimental calendar
1940 - Germans set up two-way radio communication in their newly occupied French territory, employing their most sophisticated coding machine, Enigma, to transmit information.
1941 - German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
1941 - German troops occupy Galicia Poland
1942 - The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
1944 - Cherbourg - France captured by Allies
1944 - Three weeks after the D-Day landing, U.S. forces captured Cherbourg on Normandy's Cotenin Peninsula,
1948 - US/British airlift to West-Berlin begins
1950 - President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict following a call from the U.N. Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North. [H]
1954 - CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1954 - The world's first atomic power station opened in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1955 - 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted Illinois
1957 - More than 500 people were killed when Hurricane "Audrey" slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.
1959 - The play, "West Side Story", with music by Leonard Bernstein, closes at Winter Garden Theater (NYC) after 734 performances.
1960 - Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
1962 - NASA X-15 flies at 4105 mph
1962 - Thalidomide banned in Netherlands
1963 - Khrushchev visits East-Berlin
1963 - Pres Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland
1963 - Robert Rushworth in X-15 reaches 87 km
1965 - 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
1968 - Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers
1969 - Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match
1971 - Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali
1973 - Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House.
1976 - Palestinian terrorists hijack a commercial plane bound for Paris
1976 - Israeli raid on Entebbe, Uganda
1977 - 5-4 decision Supreme Court decides to let lawyers advertise
1977 - Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)
1977 - Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
1978 - Soyuz 30 launched
1979 - Supreme Court ruled private employers could give special preferences to blacks to eliminate "manifest racial imbalance" in traditionally white-only jobs.
1979 - OPEC raises oil prices 24%
1980, President Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.
1982 - 4th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 launched
1983 - Balloonists Maxie Anderson & Don Ida died during a race
1983 - Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1984 - Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
1985 - The legendary Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passed into history as officials decertified the road.
1986 - World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
1987 - Supreme Court Justice Powell retires
1990 - NASA announced that a flaw in the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope was preventing the instrument from achieving optimum focus.
1990 - Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help Iran earthquake victims
1991 - The Supreme Court ruled that juries considering life or death for convicted murderers may take into account the victim's character and the suffering of relatives.
1991 - Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, who in 1967 became the first African American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, retired after serving on the nation's highest court for twenty-four years.
1992 - Authorities found the body of kidnapped Exxon executive Sidney J. Reso buried in a makeshift grave in Bass River State Park in New Jersey. (The couple who kidnapped and killed Reso, Arthur and Irene Seale, were later convicted and sentenced to prison.)
1993 - U.N.-sponsored talks between exiled Haitian President Aristide and the military leaders who ousted him opened in New York.
1994 - Arguing that presidents were entitled to immunity during their terms, President Clinton's lawyer asked for a delay in the sexual harassment suit filed by former Arkansas state employee Paula Corbin Jones.
1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an historic mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir. The flight was also the 100th U.S.-piloted space mission.
1996 - A Dallas police officer was charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill football star Michael Irvin. (Johnnie Hernandez later pleaded guilty to solicitation of capital murder.)
1996 - President Clinton and other Group of 7 leaders meeting in Lyon, France, pledged solidarity against terrorism following a truck bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 Americans.
1997 - The Supreme Court threw out a key part of the Brady gun-control law, saying the federal government could not make local police decide whether people are fit to buy handguns. However, the court left intact the five-day waiting period for gun purchases.
1997 - TV evangelist Robert Schuller attacks a flight attendant
2000 - House Republicans cut a deal to allow direct sales of U.S. food to Cuba for the first time in four decades.
2000 - President Robert Mugabe's ruling party was assured a majority in Zimbabwe's new parliament despite historic gains by the opposition.
Birthdays Today
1462 - Louis XII, (the Just) king of France (1498-1515)
1550 - Charles IX, king of France (1560-74)
1682 - Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718)
1831 - Joseph Joachim, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto)
1846 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist
1850 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet novelist playwright (Under the Yoke)
1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, American journalist author (Chita)
1869 - Emma Goldman, anarchist
1872 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and short story writer
1880 - Helen Keller (author, educator; advocated new policies to help the blind live in normal surroundings) had more sense than many [Q]
1902 - John Dillinger, US bank robber (public enemy #1)
1907 - John McIntire (actor: Honkytonk Man, Rooster Cogburn, Summer and Smoke, Psycho, Elmer Gantry)
1911 - Audrey Christie (actress: Splendor in the Grass, Harper Valley P.T.A., Frankie and Johnny)
1912 - Karl F von Weisacker, German physicist/philosopher
1912 - Sergiu Celibidache, Roumanian conductor
1913 - Willie Mosconi (billiard player: World American Straight Pool champion: 6 times between 1941-1956)
1917 - Ben Homer (composer: Sentimental Journey)
1920 - I.A.L. Diamond (screen writer: Some Like It Hot, Irma La Douce, The Apartment)
1923 - Elmo Hope (musician: piano: group: The Elmo Hope Trio)
1924 - Rosalie Allen (Julie Bedra) (country singer: He Taught Me How to Yodel)
1925 - Jerome 'Doc' Pomus (songwriter: Boogie Woogie Country Girl, Lonely Avenue; w/Mort Shuman: A Teenager in Love, Turn Me Loose, Can't Get Used to Losing You, Save the Last Dance for Me, This Magic Moment)
1926 - Bones (James) Raleigh (hockey)
1927 - Bob Keeshan (aka Captian Kangaroo (Good Morning Captain))
1930 - H. Ross Perot (billionaire industrialist, philanthropist, U.S. presidential hopeful)
1931 - Charles Bronfman (industrialist: Seagrams, Montreal Expos)
1932 - Eddie Kasko (baseball)
1934 - Anna Moffo (opera singer: Metropolitan Opera [1959-1969])
1938 - Bruce E. Babbitt, (Gov-D-AL)
1940 - Sandra Smith (actress: The Interns)
1941 - Errol Mann (football: Oakland Raiders kicker: Super Bowl XI)
1941 - Jack Montgomery (golfer)
1942 - Frank Mills (musician: piano: Music Box Dancer)
1943 - Rico Petrocelli (baseball: Boston Red Sox)
1943 - Willie Young (football)
1944 - Bruce Johnston (Grammy Award-winning song writer: I Write the Songs [1976]; musician: group: The Beach Boys)
1944 - Doug Buffone (football)
1945 - Norma Kamali (fashion designer)
1948 - Vernon Holland (football)
1951 - Julia Duffy (actress: Designing Women, Newhart, Children in the Crossfire, Night Warning)
1953 - Alice McDermott (National Book Award-winner )
1955 - Isabelle Adjani (actress: Queen Margot, Ishtar, Subway, The Tenant, The Story of Adele H, The Slap)
Famous deaths
1776 - Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged
1829 - James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute
1836 - James Madison, 4th US pres (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Va at 85
1844 - Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), lynched at 38 in Carthage Ill
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated
1958 - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood/The Highwayman), dies at 77
1975 - Rod Serling, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery), dies at 50
1975 - Robert Stolz, Austrian composer (Freuhling im Prater), dies at 94
1993 - Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Don Carlos/Boris/Mefistofele), dies at 79
1996 - Alberto Romolo ("Cubby") Broccoli, movie producer (James Bond Films), dies at 87
2001 - Jack Lemmon, the two-time Oscar winner, He was 76.
2003 - Strom Thurmond, (D/R-Sen-SC) Born in 1902, served the Senate from 1954 to 2003, making him both the longest-serving and oldest member of Congress
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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