On June 27
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly June 27 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Jun 24 – Jun 30)
On 28 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie were shot dead in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb member of the Young Bosnia movement.
Signed in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles on 28 June 1919 — five years to the day after the Sarajevo assassination — the Treaty of Versailles formally ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied powers.
At the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco (25 April – 26 June 1945), delegates of fifty nations drafted and signed the Charter of the United Nations on 26 June 1945.
The Korean War began on 25 June 1950 when North Korean forces invaded South Korea across the 38th parallel.
Unveiled by Steve Jobs on 9 January 2007 and released in the United States on 29 June 2007, Apple's iPhone combined a music player, mobile phone and internet device in a single product controlled almost entirely by a finger-driven…
On 24 June 1571 the Spanish conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi formally founded the city of Manila on the ruins of the Tagalog polity of Maynila, designating it the capital of the Spanish East Indies.
On 24 June 1948 the Soviet Union blockaded all rail, road and water routes into the Western-controlled sectors of Berlin, which lay deep inside the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
On 26 June 2015 the United States Supreme Court ruled 5–4 in Obergefell v. Hodges that the Fourteenth Amendment requires every state to license marriages between same-sex couples and to recognise such marriages performed elsewhere.