On This Day (June 27)

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• 678 – Saint Agatho began his reign as Pope.
• 1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1898 – Canadian-American seaman and adventurer Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the globe sailing on his refitted sloop-rigged fishing boat Spray, a distance of more than 46,000 miles (74,000 km).
• 1899 - Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur born. (d. 1981) (Trippe was a U.S. airline entrepreneur and pioneer, and the founder of Pan American World Airways.)
• 1905 - (June 14 according to the Julian calendar): Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
• 1927 - Bob Keeshan, American actor born. (d. 2004) (Keeshan was an American television producer and actor. He is most famous as the title character of the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which became an icon for millions of baby boomers during its 30-year run from 1955-1984. Keeshan also played the original "Clarabell the Clown" on the Howdy Doody television program.)
• 1954 - The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• 1967 – The world's first electronic automated teller machine was installed in Enfield Town, London by Barclays Bank.
• 1985 - U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
• 1991 – Yugoslavia invaded Slovenia, two days after the latter's declaration of independence from the former, starting the Ten-Day War.
• 2007 – An operation by the Brazilian Military Police against drug dealers in the Complexo do Alemão of Rio de Janeiro killed at least nineteen people, many of whom had no relations with drug trafficking whatsoever.

Picture of the Day



The Mice Galaxies, NGC 4676A (right) and NGC 4676B (left), are two spiral galaxies in the constellation Coma Berenices that are presently in the process of colliding and merging. Their name refers to the long tails produced by a galactic tide.

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