In 1844, founder of the Mormon church, Joseph Smith, was murdered.

In 1954, the first nuclear power station was opened at Obninsk in the USSR.

In 1976, Palestinian terrorists hijacked an Air France aircraft and forced it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.

From the Telegraph & Argus of June 27th, 1977...

Former Prime Minister Edward Heath and the Black Dyke Mills Band teamed up in Huddersfield Town Hall today. Mr Heath is conducting the band for a recording session for a long playing record. When Mr Heath flew in to Leeds-Bradford Airport today he said: "I think Black Dyke are a very fine band and I look forward to today's performance."

From the Telegraph & Argus of June 27th, 1952...

The Provost of Bradford (the Very Rev. John G. Tiarks) does not view the City Council's decision to allow Sunday games in the parks with the same alarm as do some others - but he does find in it a warning of things to come. "I confess," he writes in the current issue of the St. Peter's Review, "that I cannot get really worked up over the decision, as though one of the final bastions of Christianity had fallen."