June 27

Today in History
• 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
• 1524 - Earl Henry III of Nassau weds Mencia de Medoza, 16-years old marquess
• 1652 - New Amsterdam (now New York City) passes 1st speed limit law in US
• 1693 - 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
• 1778 - Liberty Bell came home to Philadelphia after the British had left
• 1746 - Flora MacDonald helps Prince Charlie, disguised as an Irish maid, evade capture
• 1847 - New York and Boston linked by telegraph wires
• 1893 - Great stock crash on New York stock exchange


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Attwari
• Day of Arafah
• Day of National Unity (Tajikistan)
• Djibouti Independence Day
• Helen Keller Day
• National Onion Day
• National Orange Blossom Day
• Tajikistan Unity Day

Birthdays
• 1350 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425)
• 1462 - Louis XII, the Just, King of France, 1498-1515
• 1696 - William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier
• 1787 - Thomas Say, American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology
• 1806 - Augustus de Morgan, Indian Mathematician
• 1838 - Paul Mauser, German weapon designer
• 1849 - Harriet Hubbard Ayers, beauty cream maufacturer and expert/columnist
• 1880 - Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer