12 History Lessons + 5 Births & 6 Deaths for June 27, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), is killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
- 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe by yacht is completed by Joshua Slocum.
- 1929 – First color television demonstration by Bell Laboratories.
- 1950 – President Harry Truman orders U.S. forces into Korea, beginning American involvement in the Korean War.
- 1954 – The world’s first nuclear power plant opens in Obninsk, USSR.
- 1967 – The first ATM is installed in London, revolutionizing personal banking.
- 1972 – Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney found Atari, launching the modern video game industry.
- 1976 – Air France Flight 139 is hijacked by terrorists and diverted to Entebbe, Uganda.
- 1991 – Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia, triggering the Yugoslav Wars.
- 2007 – Tony Blair resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Gordon Brown succeeds him.
- 2013 – NASA launches IRIS, a solar observation satellite.
- 2018 – The U.S. Supreme Court upholds President Trump’s travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1955 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress and five-time César Award winner (70)
- 1966 – J.J. Abrams, film director and creator of Lost and Alias (59)
- 1975 – Tobey Maguire, actor best known for playing Spider-Man (50)
- 1984 – Khloé Kardashian, TV personality and entrepreneur (Keeping Up with the Kardashians) (41)
- 1991 – Madylin Sweeten, actress from Everybody Loves Raymond (34)
Today’s Deaths:
- 1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church (38)
- 1985 – Rodney Porter, British biochemist and Nobel laureate (68)
- 2001 – Jack Lemmon, Oscar-winning American actor (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment) (76)
- 2002 – John Entwistle, bassist of The Who (57)
- 2016 – Alvin Toffler, American writer and futurist known for Future Shock (87)
- 2019 – Edith Irby Jones, the first Black student at a Southern medical school and civil rights pioneer (91)
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