Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 27

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 * 678 – Pope Agatho, later venerated as a saint in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, began his pontificate.
 * 1571 – Queen Elizabeth I issued a royal charter establishing Jesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of Oxford.
 * 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time that a British monarch led troops in battle, Allied forces commanded by George II (depicted) defeated the French army at Dettingen, Bavaria.
 * 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: French forces won a victory at the Battle of Neuburg, ending Austrian control over the River Danube.
 * 1869 – One day after surrendering at the Battle of Hakodate, Enomoto Takeaki turned the fort of Goryōkaku over to Japanese forces, signaling the collapse of the Republic of Ezo.
 * 1869 – The military phase of the Meiji Restoration in Japan was completed with an imperial victory in the Boshin War.
 * 1905 – First Russian Revolution: The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutiny against their officers.
 * 1976 – The first identifiable case of Ebola occurred in Sudan.
 * 1994 – Members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas in Matsumoto, Nagano, killing eight people and injuring more than five hundred others.
 * 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.
 * 2008 – Robert Mugabe was re-elected as President of Zimbabwe with an overwhelming majority after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew, citing violence against his party's supporters.
 * 2015 – Ignition of corn starch caused a dust fire at a water park in New Taipei City, Taiwan, killing 12 people and injuring more than 400 others.
 * 2018 – The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 (artist's impression pictured) arrived at the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for return to Earth.
 * Born/died this day: | Conan I of Rennes |d|992| Thomas Erpingham |d|1428| George Vincent |bap|1796| James Smithson |d|1829| Eugenia Washington |b|1838| Ranjit Singh |d|1839| Frank Rattray Lillie |b|1870| Sarah Helen Whitman |d|1878| Guilhermina Suggia |b|1885|  Charlie Macartney |b|1886| Rosalie Allen|b|1924| Ross Perot|b|1930| Wanda Gág|d|1946| Mary McAleese |b|1951| Nekima Levy Armstrong|b|1976| Sam Manekshaw|d|2008| Violet Milstead|d|2014| Michael Nyqvist |d|2017|

June 27


 * 1864 – American Civil War: General Sherman's frontal assault against the Confederate Army of Tennessee failed, but did not stop the Union Army from advancing on Atlanta.
 * 1899 – A. E. J. Collins (pictured) scored 628 runs not out, the highest recorded score in cricket until being surpassed in 2016.
 * 1954 – Jacobo Árbenz resigned as President of Guatemala following a CIA-led coup against his administration.
 * 1957 – Hurricane Audrey made landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana, U.S.
 * 2017 – Websites of Ukrainian organizations were swamped by a massive cyberattack, blamed on Russian military hackers, using the malware Petya.