Legs presents ~ On This Day

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On this Day ~ June 27

678 St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1693 1st woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" published (London)

1743 English defeat French at Dettingen

1806 Buenos Aires captured by British

1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academyfor black females at Canterbury Conn

1847 NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires

1857 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia

1862 Day 3 of the 7 Days-Battle of Gaines' Mill

1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

1867 Bank of Calif opens doors

1876 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Phila Athletics)

1884 J Palisa discovers asteroid #237 Coelestina

1914 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia

1915 100ø F (38ø C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)

1917 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service

1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)

1929 1st color TV demo (NYC)

1930 P Parchomenko discovers asteroid #1166 Sakuntala

1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created

1939 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)

1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings

1940 USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar

1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island

1944 Cherbourg, France captured by Allies

1949 W Baade discovers asteroid #1566 Icarus

1950 Pres Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict

1950 UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea

1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam

1951 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1588 Descamisada

1954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)

1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala

1955 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)

1956 Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings

1957 390 die by Hurricane Audrey in coastal La & Tx

1958 Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th

1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia

1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass

1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m

1963 Bill J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon & McCartney "I Call Your Name"

1963 Pres Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland

1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m

Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but Phillie centerfielder

Tony Gonzalez's error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games

1966 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premiers

1966 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2

1967 Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)

1969 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival

1969 Police raid the Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about

400 to 1,000 patrons riot against the police, it lasts 3 days

1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2121 Sevastopol

1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"

1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise

1977 Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)

1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1

1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station

1978 US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit

1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 launched

1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist-œ960,200-Mir¢

1983 Maxie Anderson & Don Ida die during a balloon race

1983 NASA launches space vehicle S-205

1983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station

1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts

1985 1st hotel strike in NY

1986 Anne White shocks Wimbeldon by wearing only a body stocking

1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce

1986 Robby Thompson (SF) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game

1986 US informs New Zealand it will not defend it against attack

1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal

1987 Supreme Court Justice Powell retires

1988 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)

1990 Jos‚ Canseco signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A's contract

1990 Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims