Today in History: 144 people died in the Central Base Earthquake in Adana's Ceyhan District

June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

• 27 June 1939 A decovil battalion was formed under the command of the corps in Hadımköy and Gallipoli. II. Turkish railway troops during World War II; It consisted of 4 dekovili operating battalions. In 1942 the railway regiment was converted into a brigade.

Events 

• 209 BC – King of the Great Hun Empire, Mete Han's accession to the throne.
• 1565 – Sokullu Mehmed Pasha became Grand Vizier. His viziership lasted during the reign of three Sultans. (Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II and Murad III).
• 1878 – Journalist and writer Ahmet Mithat Efendi, “Translation of the TruthHe started to publish a daily newspaper called ”.
• 1884 – Beyazıt State Library was established in Istanbul.
• 1893 - The New York Stock Exchange crashed.
• 1905 – The crew of the Russian Warship Potemkin, who wanted to prevent the crews who opposed the worm meal from being shot, rose up in the Black Sea and steered the ship towards Odessa. The first uprising of the first Russian revolution began in Odessa.
• 1916 – Hejaz declared its independence and separated from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1917 – Greece joins the Allies.
• 1918 – Azerbaijani was declared the official state language in Azerbaijan.
• 1923 - A biplane aircraft is refueled in mid-air for the first time.
• 1938 – The helicopter was patented by Igor Sikorsky.
• 1946 - The Allies decide to give the Dodecanese Islands to Greece.
• 1950 - The United States decided to send troops to the Korean War.
• 1950 - The United Nations Security Council appealed to members of the United Nations to assist South Korea.
• 1954 – In Guatemala, the government elected by the people is overthrown in a CIA-backed coup.
• 1954 – The world's first nuclear power plant was opened in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• 1957 - Hurricane Audrey in Louisiana and Texas killed 500 people.
• 1964 – Retired Cavalry Major Fethi Gürcan was executed. Gürcan was retired on February 22, 1962 due to the coup attempt. When he repeated a similar attempt with Talat Aydemir on May 20, 1963, he was tried and sentenced to death.
• 1964 – The Government of the Republic of Cyprus banned Turks over the age of 15 from entering the Island.
• 1967 – The world's first cash machine was put into service in London's Enfield district.
• 1974 – Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
• 1976 – A French Airlines passenger plane was hijacked by PLO militants while on the Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris flight and diverted to Entebbe International Airport in Entebbe, Uganda.
• 1977 – Republic of Djibouti declared its independence from France.
• 1978 – Bomb dropped on the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Turkey; Long queues formed due to lack of gas.
• 1979 - Muhammad Ali announced that he was quitting boxing.
• 1980 – A group of detainees from Adana Prison tried to escape through the tunnel. Security forces opened fire; 4 detainees died.
• 1980 – A DC-9 type passenger plane belonging to Italian Airlines crashes near the Italian island of Ustica: 81 people are killed.
• 1984 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly passed the draft law reducing the military service period to 18 months.
• 1987 – Gaziantep University was founded.
• 1988 – Train accident at Lyon Station in Paris, the capital of France: 56 dead, 60 injured.
• 1991 – Yugoslav People's Army launches operation against Slovenia.
• 1998 – 144 people died in an earthquake with epicenter in Adana's Ceyhan district.
• 2004 – Boris Tadic is elected President of Serbia-Montenegro.
• 2007 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair resigns.

Births 

• 1350 – II. Manuel, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1425)
• 1462 – XII. Louis, King of France (d. 1515)
• 1740 – John Latham, English physician, natural historian, ornithologist, and author (d. 1837)
• 1806 – Augustus De Morgan, British mathematician and logician (d. 1871)
• 1838 – Paul Von Mauser, German gun designer (d. 1914)
• 1869 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian anarcho-communist writer (d. 1940)
• 1869 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
• 1877 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1944)
• 1880 Helen Keller, American pedagogue (d. 1968)
• 1914 – Helena Benitez, Filipino politician and bureaucrat (d. 2016)
• 1921 – Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish novelist and short story writer (d. 1989)
• 1930 – Ross Perot, American businessman and politician
• 1931 – Tolon Tosun, Turkish athlete, athlete and dentist (d.1993)
• 1931 – Martinus Veltman, Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 2021)
• 1936 – Kutlu Payaslı, Turkish singer and composer
• 1941 – Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish director (d. 1996)
• 1951 – Mary McAleese, Irish politician and President of Ireland
• 1952 – Rita Russek, German actress
• 1955 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
• 1959 – Janusz Kamiński, Polish cinematographer and film director
• 1960 – Axel Rudi Pell, German heavy metal guitarist
• 1966 – JJ Abrams, American producer, director, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Pascale Bussières, Canadian actress
• 1969 – Alessandro Esseno, Italian composer
• 1970 – Cecily von Ziegesar, American writer
• 1973 – Özge Fışkın, Turkish rock music singer
• 1974 – Christian Kane, American actor and singer-songwriter
• 1975 – Tobey Maguire, American actor
• 1976 – Wagner Moura, Brazilian film and television actor
• 1977 Raúl González, Spanish football player
• 1978 – Petra Frey, Austrian singer
• 1979 – Fabrizo Miccoli, Italian national football player
• 1980 – Hugo Campagnaro, Argentine football player
• 1980 – Tobin Radcliffe, American actor
• 1981 – Martina García, Colombian model, TV and film actress
• 1983 – Alsu, Russian singer of Tatar descent
• 1984 – Iosif Cholevas, German-born Greek national football player
• 1984 – Gökhan İnler, Turkish-Swiss national football player
• 1985 – Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
• 1985 – Nico Rosberg, Finnish-German Formula 1 driver
• 1986 – Drake Bell, American singer and actor
• 1986 – Sam Claflin, English actor
• 1987 – Ed Westwick, English actor
• 1988 – Landry Fields, American professional basketball player
• 1988 – Matthew Spiranovic, Australian national football player
• 1989 – Matthew Lewis, English actor
• 1990 – Laura van der Heijden, Dutch handball player
• 1991 – Jordy Clasie, Dutch national football player
• 1991 – Özge Yavaş, Turkish basketball player
• 1993 – Gamze Alikaya, Turkish volleyball player
• 1999 – Chandler Riggs, American child actor

Deaths 

• 1212 BC – II. Ramses, Ancient Egypt, one of the 19th Dynasty pharaohs (b. 1302 BC)
• 1574 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect (b. 1511)
• 1636 – Date Masamune, Japanese politician and daimyo (b. 1567)
• 1831 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1776)
• 1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder and first president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as Mormonism, and one of the Mormon prophets (b. 1805)
• 1876 ​​– Harriet Martineau, English sociologist (b. 1802)
• 1878 – Sarah Helen Whitman, American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, and spiritualist (b. 1803)
• 1916 – Ștefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
• 1930 – Kakutsa Cholokashvili, Georgian officer and commander of the Anti-Soviet guerrilla movement in Georgia (b. 1888)
• 1936 – Mike Bernard, American Ragtime musician (b. 1875)
• 1944 – Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
• 1945 – Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer (b. 1872)
• 1961 – Hélène Dutrieu, Belgian cyclist, motorcycle competitor, auto competitor and pilot (b. 1877)
• 1964 – Fethi Gürcan, Turkish Cavalry Major (one of the leaders of the 20 May 1963 uprising) (b. 1922)
• 1975 – GI Taylor, English physicist and mathematician (b. 1886)
• 1985 – Kovkeb Kamil Kizi Seferalieva, Soviet classical pianist of Azerbaijani origin (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Mihails Tāls, Latvian chess grandmaster (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Albert R. Broccoli, American filmmaker (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Kerim Tekin, Turkish singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1975)
• 1999 – Yorgo Papadopoulos, Greek soldier and junta leader (b. 1919)
• 2000 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and director (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Tove Jansson, Finnish novelist, painter, comic strip writer and illustrator (b. 1914)
• 2002 – John Entwistle, English musician (b. 1944)
• 2003 – David Newman, American film producer (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Gale Storm, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Elaine Stewart, American actress and model (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Sayavuş Aslan, Azerbaijani comedy actor (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Bobby Womack, American musician (b. 1944)
• 2015 – Chris Squire, English musician, singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
• 2016 – Bud Spencer, Italian writer, actor, former swimmer (b. 1929)
• 2016 – Alvin Toffler, American author and futurist (b. 1928)
• 2017 – Peter Ludwig Berger, American sociologist and theologian (b. 1929)
• 2017 – Piotr Bikont, Polish policy writer, journalist, food expert and theater director (b. 1955)
• 2017 – Michael Bond, English writer (b. 1927)
• 2017 – Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (b. 1960)
• 2017 – Mustafa Talas, Syrian soldier and politician (b. 1932)
• 2018 – Ahron Daum, Israeli rabbi (b. 1951)
• 2018 – Steve Ditko, American writer (b. 1927)
• 2018 – Joseph Jackson, American musician (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Steven Hilliard Stern, Canadian film producer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 2018 – Vladimir Andreevich Uspenski, Russian mathematician, linguist, writer, doctor of physics and mathematics (b. 1930)
• 2019 – Justin Raimondo, American author, politician, and editor-in-chief (b. 1951)
• 2020 – Freddy Cole, American black jazz singer and pianist (b. 1931)
• 2020 – Linda Cristal, Argentine actress (b. 1931)
• 2020 – Antonio Cuenco, Filipino politician (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Ilija Petković, Serbian-born Yugoslav former national football player and manager (b. 1945)