Today in History, 6/27

1743: During the War of Austrian succession, at the Battle of Dettingen, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. This will be the last time a British monarch commands troops in the field.
1759: General James Wolfe starts the Siege of Quebec.1844: Joseph Smith, Jr, founder of the Mormons, and his brother Hyrum are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.1847: New York and Boston are linked by telegraph wires.
1880: Helen Keller is born.1905: Sailors aboard the Battleship Potemkin start a mutiny to protest harsh treatment. This is one of the seminal events leading up to the Russian Revolution and was immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein's silent propaganda epic.

1923: Captain Lowell H Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter perform the first midair refueling in a DH-4B biplane.1927: Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan is born.

1942: The FBI announces the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on Long Island.
1944: American forces capture the French port of Cherbourg.
1950: The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1951: Julia Duffy is born. She is most famous for playing the self-obsessed preppie Stephanie Vanderkellen on Newhart. I had a huge crush on her. 1966: J.J. Abrams is born. He created the TV show Lost and is currently doing the new Star Trek movie.1967: The world's first ATM is installed in London.
1969: The Stonewall Riots in Manhattan mark the beginning of the gay liberation movement.
1975: Tobey Maguire, of the Spiderman movies, is born.
1980: President Jimmy Carter signs legislation reviving draft registration.
1985: Route 66, which once stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, is officially decertified as a road.

Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.