June 27 in history — What Happened Today in History

Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.

Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.

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.

The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.

France grants independence to Djibouti.

Constitution for the Federation of Earth was adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria.

Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PFLP and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.

U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.

The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.

Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.

The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.

The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.

The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.

In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.

World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese.

Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.

World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.

The Rovaniemi township decree is promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi secedes from the old rural municipality as its own market town on January 1, 1929.

Prime 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.

The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens after five years of construction, providing a land connection for road and rail vehicles travelling between Johor and Singapore.

The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.

During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.

The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

The 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.

American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta campaign.

Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.

British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.

Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.

Ahn So-hee, South Korean singer and actress

Karthika Nair, Indian actress

Oliver Stark, British actor

Bobby Wagner, American football player

Hana Birnerová, Czech tennis player

Sabino Brunello, Italian chess grandmaster

Matthew Lewis, English actor

Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast

Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer

Kate Ziegler, American swimmer

India de Beaufort, English actress

Ed Westwick, English actor

Sam Claflin, British actor

Allen Grossman, American poet, critic, and academic (born 1932)

Leslie Manigat, Haitian educator and politician, 43rd President of Haiti (born 1930)

Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (born 1919)

Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1926)

Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer (born 1964)

Ian Scott, English-New Zealand painter (born 1945)

Stan Cox, English runner (born 1918)

Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet and illustrator (born 1920)

Mike Doyle, English footballer (born 1946)

Corey Allen, American film and television actor, writer, director, and producer (born 1934)

Gale Storm, American actress (born 1922)

Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (born 1914)

William Hutt, Canadian actor (born 1920)