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What happened on June 27 in American history
June 27 is the 178th day of the year (the 179th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 11 stories from June 27 spanning 1760 to 2024. Among them: in 1760, Seroweh's warriors ambush Montgomerie at Echoee Pass; the British retreat to Charleston; and in 1844, Mob storms Carthage jail; Joseph Smith is shot and killed despite governor's pledge of safe custody.
1760Member story · 1776 Club
Seroweh's warriors ambush Montgomerie at Echoee Pass; the British retreat to Charleston
Cherokee fighters kill Captain Morrison and rout the Rangers, leaving 1,300 troops too burdened with wounded to press on toward the Middle Settlements.
1844Member story · 1776 Club
Mob storms Carthage jail; Joseph Smith is shot and killed despite governor's pledge of safe custody
Some 150 to 200 men, faces blackened with gunpowder, overwhelm the guards; Hyrum Smith dies first, shot in the face, and Joseph falls from the second-story window.
1864Member story · 1776 Club
Sherman's men charge up Kennesaw Mountain and are thrown back; 3,000 Union casualties in a single morning
Dense thickets, steep slopes, and enfilading fire hold the Confederate breastworks, and Sherman concedes the mountain is a vast fort he cannot take by storm.
1895Member story · 1776 Club
B&O runs the first electric locomotive in American railroading under Baltimore
Steam smoke had made the Howard Street tunnel nearly impassable; 3.75 miles of the Belt Line now carry the Royal Blue in silence.
1950
Truman orders air and sea forces to Korea; the UN backs a unified command under American leadership
Seoul fell yesterday, and the Security Council voted hours ago, but the question in Washington was never whether to act, only how fast.
1950
American fighters meet North Korean Yaks above Suwon; three shot down, none lost
F-82s and F-80Cs scrambled to cover civilian evacuation flights out of Seoul, two days after North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel.
1954Member story · 1776 Club
Árbenz resigns and flees to the Mexican Embassy; the CIA's radio war has done its work
Operation PBSuccess never fielded an army large enough to win, but convinced Guatemala's military it already had; the elected president is gone before nightfall.
1957Member story · 1776 Club
Hurricane Audrey drives a 12-foot wall of water 25 miles into Louisiana; Cameron Parish is gone
At least 416 are dead, most of them in Cameron, where the courthouse is the only building still standing after 125 mph winds and the surge swamped 1.6 million acres.
1974Member story · 1776 Club
Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT I; no sitting president has ever set foot in Moscow before today
The two leaders also seal the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, formally acknowledging in ink that neither side can shoot its way to safety.
1995Member story · 1776 Club
Atlantis docks with Mir; Gibson holds misalignment to less than an inch at 216 nautical miles up
The link-up is simultaneously the first U.S.-Russian spacecraft docking and the 100th American crewed spaceflight, producing the largest spacecraft in orbit at roughly 225 metric tons.
2024
Biden's debate voice fails him; the 81-year-old leaves his economic record undefended on national television
Speaking in a halting, hoarse voice and repeatedly mixing "billion" with "million," the president leaves Democrats across the country asking what they saw tonight.
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