June 27 birthdays & history

Famous people born on June 27

• 1880Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist
• 1869Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist
• 1955Isabelle Adjani, French actress
• 1975Tobey Maguire, American actor
• 1462Louis XII, king of France
• 1985Nico Rosberg, German race car driver
• 1931Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter
• 1966J. J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1884Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet

What happened on June 27

• 678Pope Agatho, later venerated as a saint in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, began his pontificate.
• 1895The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• 1898The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• 1924The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens after five years of construction, providing a land connection for road and rail vehicles travelling between Johor and Singapore.
• 1927Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss 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.
• 1946In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
• 1974U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
• 1977France grants independence to Djibouti.
• 1977Constitution for the Federation of Earth was adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria.
• 1982Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
• 1995Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-71, the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
• 2018The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 arrived at the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for return to Earth.

Also observed on June 27

• Canadian Multiculturalism Day (Canada)
• Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art and poetry of Magtymguly Pyragy (Turkmenistan)
• Helen Keller Day (United States)
• International Day of Deafblindness
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Djibouti from France in 1977.
• Mixed Race Day (Brazil)