June 27th
Today in America's Present Past
1689 | Indian Wars: Cohecho Massacre begins.
1844 | Cleric Joseph Smith is shot dead.
1864 | Civil War: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.
1869 | Author and activist Emma Goldman is born.
1872 | Author Paul Laurence Dunbar is born.
1880 | Activist Helen Keller is born.
1893 | Great stock crash on Wall Street.
1899 | Entrepreneur Juan Trippe is born.
1919 | Civil Rights: "Red Summer race riots" in Annapolis, Maryland.
1923 | The first aerial refueling occurs between two biplanes piloted by Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter.
1927 | Entertainer Bob Keeshan was born.
1930 | Entrepreneur Ross Perot was born.
1942 | WWII: The FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off Long Island, New York.
1950 | Vietnam War: The US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam.
1956 | Cleric Ted Haggard was born.
1962 | Entrepreneur Ross Perot founded Electronic Data Systems.
1966 | Director J. J. Abrams was born.
1975 | Actor Tobey Maguire was born.
2001 | Actor Jack Lemmon died.
2005 | Entrepreneur John T. Walton died.
2005 | Historian Shelby Foote died.
2016 | Author Alvin Toffler died.