^B{^#!16!27 June^N! Feast day of St Cyril of Alexandria, St Zoilus, St Samson of Constantinople, St George Mtasmindeli, the Martyrs of Arras, St John of Chinon, and St Ladislas, King of Hungary.
^B{1771 ^B}Russia completed its conquest of the Crimea. ^B{1795 ^B}A British force landed at Quiberon to aid the revolt in Brittany. ^B{1795 ^B}French forces recaptured St Lucia. ^B{1801 ^B}Cairo fell to English forces. ^B{1932 ^B}A Constitution was proclaimed in Siam. ^B{1940 ^B}The USSR invaded Romania on the refusal of King Carol to cede Bessarabia and Bukovina; Romania appealed for German aid in vain. ^B{1941 ^B}Hungary declared war on Russia. ^B{1944 ^B}Allied forces took Cherbourg. ^B{1950^B} US air, naval and later ground forces supported South Korea against North Korea's invasion.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Louis XII, king of France, ^B{1462^B}: Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader, ^B{1846^B}: John Monash, Australian civil engineer, ^B{1865^B}: Helen Keller, US author and teacher, ^B{1880^B}. ^B}
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and art historian, ^B{1571^B}: Nathaniel Bailey, English lexicographer, ^B{1742^B}: Samuel Hood, British admiral, ^B{1816^B}: James Smithson, English scientist, ^B{1829^B}: Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, ^B{1844^B}: Malcolm Lowry, British novelist, ^B{1957^B}: Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, former Shah of Iran, ^B{1980^B}. ^B}
