June 27 in history: • 678 – Pope Agatho, later venerated as a saint in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, began his pontificate. → go there • 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time that a British monarch led troops in battle, Allied forces commanded by George II (depicted) defeated the French army at Dettingen, Bavaria. → go there • 1869 – The military phase of the Meiji Restoration in Japan was completed with an imperial victory in the Boshin War. → go there • 1957 – Hurricane Audrey made landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana, U.S. → go there • 2007 – As a result of an ongoing conflict between drug dealers and police in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a large military and civil police operation killed 19 people and injured several others. → go there Died 1829: James Smithson Wiki link Born 1976: Nekima Levy Armstrong Wiki link Born 1986: Sam Claflin Wiki link Died 2017: Michael Nyqvist Wiki link Pictured: George II at Dettingen.