• two members of the outlaw Banditti of the Prairie were lynched in Ogle County, Illinois on June 27, 1841?

Facts on topics related to June 27

March 4

• on March 4, 1839, William F. Harnden became the first person to send an express freight shipment by rail?
  

January 1

• a new free trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore will come into effect on 1 January 2006?
• before 1 January 2008, milk with a fat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in the United Kingdom?
• in the history of transportation in Los Angeles, the first California freeway "traffic jam" occurred on January 1, 1940?
• many Russians celebrate the new year twice: once on the January 1 New Year of the Gregorian calendar and again on the Julian calendar Old New Year in mid-January?

July 4

• Carrollton Viaduct in Baltimore, Maryland is the world's oldest railway bridge still in use, and that its cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1828?
• Victor Chang AC was a famous Australian heart surgeon and was murdered on 4 July 1991, following an extortion attempt on his family?
• the Smithsonian American Art Museum is currently closed due to a major building renovation but is scheduled to reopen on July 4, 2006?
• the Fair Play Men, a group of squatters in colonial Pennsylvania, made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 on the banks of Pine Creek?
• the Peachtree Road Race, held annually on July 4 (U.S. Independence Day) in Atlanta, Georgia, is the world's largest 10 kilometer road race with 55,000 runners participating in 2007?

June 6

• during World War II, No. 233 Squadron RAF (pictured) lost four aircraft out of a total of twenty-four supply flights flown at the end of D-Day, June 6, 1944?
• the Don Cossack rebel Stenka Razin was quartered alive at the Lobnoye Mesto in Moscow on June 6, 1671?

May 1

• on every May 1, the hamlet of Ickwell celebrates May Day with dancing around a Maypole (pictured) and with the crowning of a May Queen?

June 1

• because of Canada's controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow, 428 All Weather Fighter Squadron of the RCAF was disbanded on June 1, 1961?

May 25

• Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Guy Bush gave up Babe Ruth's last two career home runs on May 25, 1935, just five days before Ruth retired?

October 31

• the Dictum of Kenilworth agreed on Halloween 1266 created a reconciliation between the Barons and Henry III of England?

June

• French Major General René Cogny, who later commanded French forces during the First Indochina War, was captured in June 1940 by the German army, and had to escape by crawling naked through a drainpipe?
• although the first meeting of the Indian Independence League took place in Tokyo in March 1942, it was not formally proclaimed until June of that year in Bangkok?
• the Polish cochineal gave its name to the color red and the month of June in many Slavic languages?