June 27th
Armed Forces Day, (formerly Veterans’ Day), in the United Kingdom is an annual event celebrated in late June to commemorate the service of men and women in the British Armed Forces.



It is also the Feast Day of St. Cyril of Alexandria; c. 376 – 444 was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. Cyril plays a role in the Arabic novel Azazel by the Egyptian scholar Youssef Ziedan.  The book depicts religious fanaticism and mob violence among early Christians in Roman Egypt. The narrator, Hypa, witnesses the lynching of Hypatia and finds himself involved in the schism of 431, when Cyril deposed Nestorius. Cyril is portrayed as a fanatic who kills Jews and others who have not converted to Christianity from the traditional religions of antiquity. This portrayal angered many of Egypt’s Coptic Christians.





1844  Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail. (also below).


1844 Joseph Smith, Jr. died from gunshot wounds. An armed mob with blackened faces stormed Carthage Jail where Joseph and Hyrum Smith were being held on a charge of inciting a riot. Hyrum, who was trying to secure the door, was killed instantly with a shot to the face. Smith fired a pepper-box pistol that a friend had lent him for self-defense, then sprang for the window. He was shot multiple times before falling out the window, crying, “Oh Lord my God!” He died shortly after hitting the ground, but was shot several times more before the mob dispersed. Smith was an American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement, of which the predominant branch is Mormonism. When he was twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon; and by the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and had founded a religion and a religious culture that continues to the present.



1846  Charles Stewart Parnell was born at County Wicklow, Ireland. Parnell was the founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He was one of the most important figures in 19th century Great Britain and Ireland, and was described by Prime Minister William Gladstone as the most remarkable person he had ever met. Parnell led the Irish Parliamentary Party as Member of Parliament through the period of Parliamentary nationalism in Ireland between 1875 and his death in 1891. The Irish Parliamentary Party split during 1890, following revelations of Parnell’s private life intruding on his political career.He has nevertheless been revered by subsequent Irish parliamentary republicans and nationalists.


1880  American author, political activist, and lecturer Helen Adams Keller was born at Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was the first deaf/blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film “The Miracle Worker”. Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth.



1905  Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.  It later came to be viewed as an initial step towards the Russian Revolution of 1917, and was the basis of Sergei Eisenstein’s silent film The Battleship Potemkin (1925).





1906 English author Dame Catherine Cookson was born as Catherine Ann McMullen at South Shields, Tyneside. She became the United Kingdom’s most widely read novelist, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers. Her books were inspired by her deprived youth in South Tyneside, North East England, the setting for her novels.


1929 William Fritz Afflis an American professional wrestler and football player, better known by his ring name, Dick the Bruiser was born at Delphi, Indiana. In the late 1950s, Dick the Bruiser wrestled live every Thursday on TV in the Detroit area. His typical opponent was “an up and coming young (unknown) wrestler” who would be pulverized by the Bruiser. His matches and interviews were so effective he became a household name in the Detroit area. In his later years he worked for WCW acting as the special guest referee at the WCW Starrcade 1990 main event between Sting and the Black Scorpion.

 

1938 Tommy Cannon a comedian and the ‘straight man’ of comedy double act Cannon and Ball, was born at Oldham in Lancashire as Thomas Derbyshire.Saturday night television series The Cannon and Ball Show, was one of LWT’s most successful series, with consistently high viewing ratings that lasted for twelve years.

  





1938 English actress Shirley Anne Field is born at Bolton, Lancashire as Shirley Broomfield. She has performed on stage, film and television since 1955 including the role of model Tina Lapford in The Entertainer in 1960 after being nominated by Sir Laurence Olivier, in the same year she appeared in probably her best known role as Doreen, the would-be girlfriend of rebellious Arthur Seaton (played by Albert Finney), in the influential New Wave film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. During the 1970s she spent some time working in stage roles before returning to films and television, in both the US and UK, in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.




1962 English singer and actor Michael Ashley Ball was born at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He is best known for his hit song “Love Changes Everything” and his many musical theatre roles. Some of his most popular roles include Marius in Les Misérables, Alex in Aspects of Love, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, for which he won the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.


1971 English nanny and television personality Joanne Frost was born in London to an English father and Gibraltarian mother. She was the central figure of the reality television program Supernanny. She has written three books on childcare and began her work experience in 1989. Since April 2014, she has fronted ITV tabloid show Jo Frost: Family Matters.





1974 American actor and singer and songwriter Christian Kane is born at Dallas, Texas. He is known for his roles in the television shows Angel, Leverage and Into the West, and the movies Just Married and Secondhand Lions. He is also the lead singer of the country-southern rock band Kane.




1984 American television personality Khloé Kardashian Odom was born at Los Angeles, California as Khloé Alexandra Kardashian. In 2007, she and her family were commissioned to star in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Its success has led to the creation of spin-offs including Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami and Khloe & Lamar. In September 2009, Kardashian married basketball player Lamar Odom one month after they first met. However, she filed for divorce in December 2013.



2007   Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997, in order to amass a personal fortune as a messenger of doom in the Middle East.



2011 Ex Manchester City football captain Mike Doyle died  of liver failure after several weeks of treatment in Tameside General Hospital. Doyle won 5 caps for the England national football team and 8 England under 23 caps. At club level he played 448 league games for Manchester City, scoring 32 goals and was voted as the club’s hardest player in the club’s official magazine/He scored for City in the 1970 League Cup Final win over West Bromwich Albion, and captained the side in the 1976 League Cup Final. He became a heavy drinker after his playing days were over. In 2007, he attended the Sporting Chance Clinic which helped him give up alcohol for a short time. He was 64yo.




Saville News : It is announced that disgraced DJ and personality, Jimmy Savile, abused victims aged 5yo to 75yo! It was also revealed that he performed various sex acts upon corpses in hospitals’ mortuaries, which may explain his affection and devoted worship of Margaret Thatcher.