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Saturday, 27 June 2026
1923 Jack Parnell, London England, orch leader (Englebert Humperdick Show) 
1924 John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76.
1925 Barbara Bates, Denver Colo, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life).
1926 Gertrude Ederle is recorded as becoming inaugural woman to swim the English Channel.
1926 Warner Bros premiers Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system.
1926 NY's Gertrude Ederle is recorded as becoming 1st woman to swim English Channel
1926 Christa Reinig, writer
1927 The third Toronto Union Station is opened officially by Edward, Prince of Wales. It was opened to the public on August 11, but passengers had to walk across to the old station tracks. The inaugural day on which trains used the new, elevated, tracks through the new station platform was January 31, 1930
1927 Andy Warhol, McKeesport PA, artist/producer (Frankenstein, Bad).
1928 Janice-Lee York Romary, Calif, fencer (Olympics-1948-68).
1928 William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68.
1930 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC
1934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915.
1935 Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70
1936 1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs.
1937 Franco-artillery fire on Madrid
1937 Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76
1938 Warner Oland, actor (Werewolf of London, Jazz Singer), dies at 57.
1939 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio.
1940 Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire.
1941 Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning.
1942 -8] Riots by Dutch Jews.
1943 US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily
1943 Tom Garrett, cricketer (last survivor of 1st Test in 1877), dies.
1944 Deportation of 70000 jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1944 All 1200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died.
1945 Atomic bomb dropped Hiroshima
1945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"
1945 The inaugural atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, an explosion equal to 20000 tons of TNT.
1946 US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
1947 1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8".
1948 In this year, Bob Mathias, US, claims decathlon at London Olympics.
1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen from Netherlands is inaugural women to win 3 golds at Olympics.
1949 Luke Appling record of 2154 (en route to 2218) games at shortstop.
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