June 27 is Sunglasses Day
National “Happy Birthday to You” Day
National “Decide to Be Married” Day
National Orange Blossom Day
1693 – “The Ladies’ Mercury” was published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women’s magazine and contained a “question and answer” column that became known as a “problem page.” It was published for four weeks.
1787 – Edward Gibbon completed “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” It was published the following May. It traced Western civilization from the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium.
Birthday of Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880), American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first person who was blind and deaf to earn a bachelor of arts degree. Helen was born able to see and hear. She fell ill at 19 months old with what might have been scarlet fever or meningitis.
The New York stock market crashed on June 27, 1893. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business. See the Panic of 1893. The unemployment rate rose to 18.4%.
1929 – Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York revealed a system for transmitting television pictures.
On June 27, 1942, the FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York’s Long Island.
1950 – Two days after North Korea invaded South Korea, U.S. President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict. The United Nations Security Council had asked for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
The world’s first cash dispenser was installed at Barclays Bank in Enfield, England in 1967. The device was invented by John Sheppard-Barron. The machine operated on a voucher system and the maximum withdrawal was $28.
The United States National Do Not Call Registry, was formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolled almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day, June 27, 2003.