June 27: Independence Day in Djibouti (1977)
Tanaka Giichi
- 1556 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs were burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union Army General William T. Sherman's frontal assault against the Army of Tennessee failed, but that did not stop Sherman's advance on Atlanta.
- 1905 – The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutiny against their oppressive officers.
- 1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi (pictured) led a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China, out of which came the Tanaka Memorial, a strategic document detailing these plans (now believed to be a forgery).
- 2007 – As a result of an ongoing conflict between drug dealers and police in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a large Military and Civil Police operation killed 19 people and injured several others.
Eugenia Washington (b. 1838) · Helen Keller (b. 1880) · Nekima Levy-Pounds (b. 1976)
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