It happened on this day, June 27
events:
1441 Murad II was able to enter the city of Novo Brdo, in the heart of Serbia, after his victory at the siege of Novo Brdo.
1548 – The Ottomans take control of the city of Tabriz, considered one of the most important cities of the Safavid state, during the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
1844 – The founder of the Mormon sect, Joseph Smith, is killed when an anti-Mormon group storms the prison where he was being held in Illinois and kills him and his brother Hyrum.
1941 – Anglo-Indian forces march from Haditha in Iraq to Syria and take control of Abu Kamal in an attempt to control the Euphrates basin, after British forces advance from Palestine and take control of Damascus and the center of the country within the framework of the Allies. campaign to wrest Syria from the pro-German Vichy French government.
1950 – The United States decides to send American forces to the Korean Peninsula to fight North Korea. Around 80 people were killed and 300 others injured in the Syrian city of Homs following a massive fire that broke out at the Shukri Shammas warehouses near the train station. The fire caused explosions in fuel tanks and dynamite barrels, leading to widespread fires and the demolition of nearby buildings. It is considered one of the worst fires in Syria's modern history.
1954 – Opening of the first nuclear reactor to produce electrical energy near Moscow.
1967 – Installation of the world's first ATM in London.
1977 – Declaration of independence of Djibouti.
1980 – Tadmur prison massacre, which claims the lives of hundreds of prisoners, most of whom were affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
1981 – Attempted assassination of Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which resulted in injuries to his arm, vocal cords and lung, as well as the disruption of a number of veins and nerves of his right hand, which was completely paralyzed.
1991 – Yugoslav forces invade the Republic of Slovenia two days after its declaration of independence.
1995 – The Crown Prince of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, carries out a peaceful coup against his father, Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, and seizes power.
2007 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair resigns from office and Gordon Brown succeeds him.
2008 – Bill Gates leaves his position at Microsoft due to his desire to devote full time to the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
2009 – Lebanese President Michel Suleiman tasks Saad Eddine Hariri with forming the new government, after naming him among 86 deputies in Parliament.
✴️ Ousted Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallah officially resigns from his post after appointing a new government of national unity so that presidential elections can take place within a month, as part of an agreement with the military which knocked him down.
2011 – The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi for crimes against humanity in Libya, amid continuing fighting in Libya following the outbreak of the February 17 revolution.
2012 – A terrorist attack targeted the headquarters of the Syrian channel Al-Ekhbariya in the town of Darusha, in rural Damascus, killing 3 media workers and 4 security agents.
2015 – A heatwave in Pakistan has killed more than 1,300 people since it hit the country about half a month ago. Haider al-Abadi announces the arrest of Abdul Baqi al-Saadoun, a member of the regional leadership of the dissolved Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and one of the men most wanted by the Iraqi government.
2016 – 4 successive suicide attacks targeted the Lebanese town of Al-Qaa, near the border with Syria, killing at least 5 people and injuring 15 others.
2017 – A series of cyberattacks hits certain official sites in Ukraine.
2018 – Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 arrives at asteroid 162173 Ryugu for a sample collection mission.
2019 – Protesters driven by the Popular Mobilization Forces, led by the Iraqi branch of Hezbollah, storm the Bahraini embassy in Baghdad. Bahrain summons its ambassador for consultations, and the Iraqi government denounces the attack and vows to hold those involved accountable.
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Births:
1350 – Emperor Manuel II, emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1550 – King Charles IX, king of France.
1860 – Karl Fesely, Austrian paleontologist and papyrologist.
1869 – Hans Spemann, German physician who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1935.
1880 – Helen Keller, blind and deaf American writer.
1894 – Murtada Al Yassin, Iraqi Jaafari jurist.
1927 – Nasri Shams El Din, Lebanese singer.
1931 – Salah Kabil, Egyptian actor.
**Martinus Veltman, Dutch physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999.
(1945SayedKhalilAl-MaraghiEgyptian writer
1955 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress.
1965 – Tariq Lotfy, Egyptian actor.
1968 – Naima Al-Jazairia, Algerian singer.
1975 – Tobey Maguire, American actor.
1977 – Raul Gonzalez, Spanish footballer.
1978 – Heba Soliman, Egyptian actress working in Kuwait.
1979 – Fabrizio Miccoli, Italian footballer.
1980 – Lina Chamamian, Syrian singer.
1984 – Gokhan Enler, Swiss footballer.
1985 – Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player.
1986 – Gharam Hindi, Egyptian actress. Drake Bell, American actor and singer
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Death:
1574 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter.
1826 – Ahmad bin Zain al-Din al-Ahsa'i, philosopher, Muslim theologian and jurist, Jaafari al-Ahsa'i.
1844 – Joseph Smith, leader and founder of the Mormon religion.
1958 – Thamer bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince.
1959 – Fayez Al-Khoury, former Syrian foreign minister and jurist.
1985 – Elias Sarkis, sixth president of the Lebanese Republic.
1994 – Mamoun El-Shenawy, Egyptian lyric poet.
2002 – Muharram Fouad, Egyptian singer.
2003 – Khalifa Al-Qattan, Kuwaiti visual artist.
2009 – George Haddad, Jordanian writer, poet and journalist.
2016 – Hassan Younis, Syrian actor. Bud Spencer, Italian actor and director.
2017 – Mustafa Tlass, former Syrian Minister of Defense.
2020 – Youssef Habab, Palestinian politician and diplomat.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ National HIV Testing Day in the United States.
⬅️ Festival of the Seven Sleepers in Germany.
