June 27<\/p>\n
1499 \u2013 Americo Vespucci, on a Spanish financed trip of exploration, sights land south of present day Cape Cassipore, Brazil.<\/p>\n
1556 \u2013 The 13 Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.<\/p>\n
1760 \u2013 During the Anglo-Cherokee War, Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present day Otto, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
1838 \u2013 Paul Mauser is born\u00a0in Oberndorf am Neckar, in what was then the Kingdom of W\u00fcrttemberg.<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain<\/p>\n
1895 \u2013 The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue<\/em> from Washington, D.C., to New York City is the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 During World War II, the town of Mogaung in Kachin state is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 The U.S decides to send troops to support South Korean forces fighting invading North Korean forces.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas\u2013Louisiana border, killing over 400 people<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 France grants independence to Djibouti.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 Space Shuttle Columbia<\/em> is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final shuttle research and development mission, STS-4.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan, killing 7 people and injuring over 600 more.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph <\/em>probe to observe the Sun.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 27 1499 \u2013 Americo Vespucci, on a Spanish financed trip of exploration, sights land south of present day Cape Cassipore, Brazil. 1556 \u2013 The 13 Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs. 1760 \u2013 During the Anglo-Cherokee War, Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56397"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93937,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56397\/revisions\/93937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}