In a June 27but from 2017, the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santoscloses the armed conflict of more than half a century with the FARCin an act in which that guerrilla symbolically completed its process of laying down its weapons.
1801.- Napoleon’s France capitulates to the English in Egypt after the Battle of Alexandria.
1898.- The siege of Baler begins on the Philippine island of Luzon, a siege faced by 33 Spanish soldiers who resisted incommunicado for 337 days. They were ‘the last of the Philippines’ and when they left on June 2, 1899, Spain had long since surrendered to the United States.
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1900.- Signature in Paris of the Convention for the delimitation of Spanish and French possessions in the Gulf of Guinea and Western Sahara.
1905.- The crew of the Russian battleship ‘Potemkin’ mutinies due to their poor living conditions.
1940.- World War II: the Germans raise the flag with the swastika on the Franco-Spanish border of Hendaye.
1954.- The world’s first civil nuclear power plant, installed in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1967.- First ATM, installed in a Barclays Bank branch in Enfield (United Kingdom).
1968.- Published the ‘Manifesto of 2,000 words’, by the writer Ludvík Vaculík, in support of the opening-up political project of the ‘Prague Spring’.
1972.- The video game company Atari is founded.
1996.- The writer Ana María Matute, elected academic of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE).
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2007.- Tony Blair resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
2008.- Bill Gates retires from Microsoft.
2012.- Historic meeting in Northern Ireland between Elizabeth II and the Northern Irish deputy prime minister and former commander of the IRA, Martin McGuinness.
1838.- Pablo Mauser, German weapons manufacturer.
1880.- Helen Keller, American deafblind writer and political activist.
1941.- Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish filmmaker.
1943.- Carlos Mejía Godoy, Nicaraguan singer and composer.
1955.- Isabelle Adjani, French actress and singer.
1965.- Juanjo Artero, Spanish actor.
1975.- Asier Etxeandia, Spanish actor.
1984.- Tamara, Spanish singer.
– Khloé Kardashian, American model.
1999.- Aitana, Spanish singer.
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1844.- Joseph Smith, American, founder of the Mormons.
1983.- Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer.
2001.- Jack Lemmon, American actor.
2007.- Liz Claiborne, Belgian designer living in the USA.
2014.- Bobby Womack, American singer.
2016.- Bud Spencer, Italian actor.
2017.- Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor.
– Michael Bond, British writer, creator of Paddington Bear.
2023.- Carmen Sevilla, Spanish singer and TV presenter.
