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Events on June 27

• 1519 The Leipzig Disputation begins between the Ingolstadt theologian Johannes Eck and the Wittenberg theologians Andreas Bodenstein and Martin Luther: Luther rejects the argument that papal primacy is based on divine right, and Eck therefore accuses him of Hussite heresy.
• 1866 At the Battle of Langensalza in the Austro-Prussian War, the Kingdom of Hanover defeats Prussia but cannot capitalize on this victory.
• 1873 The Beck Brewery is founded in Bremen by Lüder Rutenberg, master brewer Heinrich Beck, and bookkeeper Thomas May as the Imperial Brewery Beck & May.
• 1905 Due to poor supplies, the crew of the Russian battleship Knjas Potjomkin Tawritscheski mutinies. The event later forms the basis for the film Battleship Potemkin.
• 1954 Located near Moscow, the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the world's first commercial nuclear power plant, begins supplying electricity to the Soviet power grid.
• 1956 The feature film Moby Dick by John Huston, starring Gregory Peck, premieres in the United States. Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay based on Herman Melville's novel of the same name. Although the film was not a box-office success, it is now regarded as an outstanding work of film history.
• 1967 In Enfield Town, now part of London, Barclays Bank puts the world's first cash machine into operation.
• 1971 With the Lisa Murnau case, Deutsche Fernsehfunk airs the first crime film in the Polizeiruf 110 series as a counterpart to the West German Tatort, starring Peter Borgelt as Senior Lieutenant Peter Fuchs and Sigrid Göhler as Lieutenant Vera Arndt.
• 1977 Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, is appointed cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
• 1984 Host nation France wins its first title at the European Football Championship. France defeats Spain 2:0 in the final.
• 1993 During a GSG-9 operation in Bad Kleinen to arrest the RAF terrorists Wolfgang Grams and Birgit Hogefeld, Hogefeld is successfully arrested. Police officer Michael Newrzella is shot by Grams, who then commits suicide.
• 2018 The German national football team is eliminated in the group stage for the first time in German World Cup history. At the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, it loses 0:2 to South Korea in the final and decisive group match.

Born on June 27

• 1862 Johann Puch, Austrian engineer and industrialist
• 1880 Helen Keller, American writer
• 1892 Erich Köhler, German politician, Member of the Bundestag, first President of the Bundestag
• 1930 Ross Perot, American entrepreneur and politician
• 1941 Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director
• 1952 Rita Russek, German actress and director
• 1961 Wiglaf Droste, German writer, journalist, gastronomy critic, and singer
• 1971 Florian Simbeck, German actor and comedian
• 1981 Money Boy, Austrian rapper
• 1990 Sina Tkotsch, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „27. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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