1693
Jun 27, The 1st woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" was published in London.

1833
Jun 27, Prudence Crandall, a white woman, was arrested for conducting an academy for black women in Canterbury, Conn. The academy was eventually closed.

1862
Jun 27, May Irwin, US comedienne, singer (A Hot Time in the Old Town), was born.

1869
Jun 27, Emma Goldman, Lithuanian born American anarchist, feminist and birth control advocate, was born. She was deported to the Soviet Union for inciting World War I draft riots in New York.

1888
Jun 27, Antoinette Perry, actress and director, namesake of the "Tony" Awards, was born.

1912
Jun 27, Audrey Christie, actress (Dorothy-Fair Exchange), was born in Chicago, Ill.

1950
Jun 27, Julia Duffy, actress (Stephanie-Newhart, Baby Talk), was born in Minneapolis, Minn.

1955
Jun 27, Isabelle Adjani, actress (Story of Adele H, Driver, Ishtar), was born in Paris.

1993
Jun 27, Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett were wed in Marion, Ind. The marriage ended in divorce.

2009
Jun 27, Gale Storm (b.1922 as Josephine Owaissa Cottle), singer and former film and TV star, died. Her wholesome appearance and perky personality made her one of early television's biggest stars on "My Little Margie" (1952-1955) and "The Gale Storm Show" (1956-1960). Her 1980 autobiography was titled "I Ain't Down Yet."

2010
Jun 27, Iceland's PM Johanna Sigurdardottir (68) married her partner under a new law legalizing same-sex marriage in the country.

2011
Jun 27, In Nigeria two girls were killed and three customs officers wounded from a bombing in the northeastern city of Maiduguri.

2012
Jun 27, A Cambodia appeals court ordered the release of 13 women who were jailed for protesting being evicted from their homes without adequate compensation, in a case that had critics had highlighted as an example of injustice. On May 24 prison sentences were imposed on the 13 women.

2013
Jun 27, The UN raised the alarm about the recent rape of 9 girls in eastern Congo. The youngest was 18 months old and 2 of the girls died.