Helen
Keller Day
Helen
Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880.
After being struck by illness, Helen loses
both her sight and hearing. Helen
Keller was the first deaf and blind person
to earn a college degree. Here is one
of the famous Hellen Keller quotes:
The human being is born with an incurable
capacity for making the best of things.
June
27
Helen Keller Day
Armed Forces Day, formerly Veterans' Day
(United Kingdom)
Canadian Multiculturalism Day (Canada)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Djibouti from France in 1977
Mixed Race Day (Brazil)
National HIV Testing Day (United States)
National Unity Day (Tajikistan)
Seven Sleepers Day or Siebenschläfertag
(Germany)
Events
1358
– Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington,
D.C., to New York, New York, the first
U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1898 – The first solo circumnavigation
of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum
from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies
of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most
violent pogroms in Jewish history in the
city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in
the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
1950 – The United States decides to send
troops to fight in the Korean War.
1954 – The world's first nuclear power
station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1967 – The world's first ATM is installed
in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom.
1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris)
is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO
and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
1980 – Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight
870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while
in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing
all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as
the Ustica disaster
1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched
from the Kennedy Space Center on the final
research and development flight mission,
STS-4.
1988 – Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris
a train collides with a stationary train
killing 56 people.
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