THIS DAY IN HISTORY 27/06
JUNE 27TH
1890 – George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight)
1967 – The world’s first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
1973 – Uruguay suspends constitution
1973 – The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d’état.
1976 – In South Africa, the National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness
1977 – Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France
1998 – Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
2013 – Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is re-elected President of Mongolia
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1880 – Helen Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many
1888 – Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
1975 – Tobey Maguire, American actor
1984 – Khloe Kardashian, Los Angeles, California, American reality television star (Keeping Up with the Kardashians)
1985 – Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
FAMOUS DEATHS
1844 – Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob at 38
1988 – Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (High Falcon), dies at 88
2007 – Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
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