History for June 27 - On-This-Day.com
Charles Stewart Parnell 1846, Mildred J. Hill 1859, Helen Keller 1880
Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan 1927, H. Ross Perot 1930, Tobey Maguire 1975
1787 - Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It was published the following May.
1801 - British forces defeated the French and took control of Cairo, Egypt.
1893 - The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1927 - The U.S. Marines adopted the English bulldog as their mascot.
1931 - Igor Sikorsky filed U.S. Patent 1,994,488, which marked the breakthrough in helicopter technology.
1942 - The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
1955 - The first "Wide Wide World" was broadcast on NBC-TV.
1967 - The world's first cash dispenser was installed at Barclays Bank in Enfield, England. The device was invented by John Sheppard-Barron. The machine operated on a voucher system and the maximum withdrawal was $28.
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