On This Day in History
June 27
Historical 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
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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.
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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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Famous Birthdays
Also Janusz Kamiński (66)
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Famous Deaths
Around The World Alone In A Fishing Boat
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They said it couldn’t be done, so Joshua Slocum set out alone and sailed 46,000 miles around the world in an old fishing boat that he had rebuilt.
| Around the World Alone |
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