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27 June| 27 June 1375 | England, France, Flanders [Hundred Years War (1337–1453)] | English and French embassies confer at Bruges, Flanders, and conclude a general treaty of truce. King Edward III of England now holds only Calais, Brest, Bordeaux, and Bayonne in France. | | 27 June 1706 | UK, Portugal, Spain [War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)] | British and Portuguese forces enter the Spanish capital, Madrid, marking a high point of success for the Grand Alliance (Britain, the United Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, and Savoy) in the War of the Spanish Succession in the Iberian Peninsula, but the occupation is to be short-lived. | | 27 June 1846 | Ireland [births and deaths] | Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist who leads the movement for Irish home rule, born in Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland (–1891). | | 27 June 1896 | UK [cinema and film] | Footage of the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Cardiff Exhibition is the first newsfilm to be shown in Britain. | | 27 June 1929 | USA [technology] | Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey demonstrate the transmission of moving color images; 50 lines are scanned at 17.7 frames per second. Among the pictures they show are the US flag, the Union Jack, and a bouquet of roses. | | 27 June 1967 | UK [business and economics] | Barclays Bank opens the world's first automatic cash machine at Enfield in London, England. | | 27 June 1977 | Djibouti [decolonization] | Djibouti gains its independence from France. | | 27 June 2000 | Zimbabwe [elections] | The opposition Movement for Democratic Change party gains 57 seats in Zimbabwe's parliament, just five short of the elected total for the ruling Zanu-PF party. While the opposition and observers condemn the electoral process as corrupt, President Mugabe celebrates his party's narrow victory and vows to continue his policy of seizing and redistributing land. | | 27 June 2001 | USA [births and deaths] | Jack Lemmon, US Academy Award-winning actor and comedian who starred in such memorable films such as Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), and The Odd Couple (1968), dies in Los Angeles, California (76). | | 27 June 2002 | UK [business and economics] | Six years after privatization by the Conservative Party, ownership and management of the UK's railway network is transferred from Railtrack plc, which was put into administration in October 2001, to a not-for-profit public interest company, Network Rail, by the UK government. Network Rail will pay £500 million – of which £300 million will be provided by the government – as well as taking over Railtrack's debt. | | 27 June 2007 | UK [political events] | Gordon Brown, the new leader of the Labour Party and former chancellor of the Exchequer, takes over as British prime minister from Tony Blair. |
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