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Saturday, 27 June 2026
1917 Ukrainian Republic declared 
1917 USS Kanawha, Noma and Wakiva sink German sub off France.
1917 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
1917 Max Georg Baumann, composer
1918 By order in Council P.C. 2854 the management of the Canadian Government Railways is entrusted to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Northern Railway Co. On the same day the Government takes over the Canadian Northern Railway and appoints a new Board of Directors.
1918 Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936).
1919 inaugural municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Az
1919 1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson Az).
1919 Dulcie Gray, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, actress (Mine Own Executioner)
1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
1920 Armin Schibler, composer.
1921 Phyllis Thaxter, Portland Maine, actress (Nora, Ft Worth).
1922 Zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in NYC.
1923 Garrett Morgan invents and patents traffic signal
1923 Beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist (Council of Economic Advisers)
1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law).
1925 American politician Robert F. Kennedy is born.
1925 Queen Alexandra, widow of King Edward VII and mother of King George V dies in England.
1925 Maya Plisetskaya, Russian Ballerina is born
1925 Robert Kennedy, American politician is born
1925 Judy Woodruff, news analyst and commentator
1925 Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80
1927 Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer, dies at 56
1928 Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0.
1929 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio.
1931 Commercial teletype service begins.
1931 The inaugural commercial teletype service was inaugurated on this day
1931 Commercial teletype service begins (AT and T)
1932 Earthquake at Uden Netherlands.
1933 Navy crew (LCDR Thomas G. W. Settle, USN, and MAJ Chester I. Fordney, USMC) sets a world altitude record in balloon (62237 ft.) in flight into stratosphere.
1934 Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, Japan beats US 1-0
1936 Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange is killed by a republican execution squad
1936 Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, Spanish Falange, executed
1938 Documented anti-Semitic remarks are heard over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
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