📜 This Day in History
June 27
678Pope Agatho, later venerated as a saint in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, began his pontificate.- 1864American Civil War: General Sherman's frontal assault against the Confederate Army of Tennessee failed, but did not stop the Union army from advancing on Atlanta.
- 1905First Russian Revolution: The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutiny against their officers.
- 1957Hurricane Audrey made landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana, U.S.
- 2007As a result of an ongoing conflict between drug dealers and police in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a large military and civil police operation killed 19 people and injured several others.
- 2018The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 arrived at the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for return to Earth.
