About the day » Saturday June 27, 1868Calender converter

• Aafje Appel, Sint Maarten († 1868)
• Alida Amelia Vegtel, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonia Adolphina Thierry († 1868)
• Adriaan van der Haven, Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Nederland
• Abraham Kranen, Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1924)
• Arie van der Heijden, Valburg(Herveld) († 1868)
• Albinus Denaeghel, Zwevezele
• Arnoldus Martinus Doejaaren, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1928)
• Aukje Hilarides, Franeker
• Adriana Goudswaard, oud-beijerland (zuid holland) († 1883)

• Adriaan BRAS (2), Dordrecht
• Adriaan Willeboordse (1), Serooskerke, Zeeland, NL
• Anna Theresia VERHULST (61), Lebbeke, België
• Anthoon BULSING (1), Haskerland(Friesland)
• Benedikt Ruoff (96), Bad Imnau, Hohenzollern, Prussia, Germany
• Betsy Gregg, Greenfield, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States
• Anna Catharina Huberta Leijten (1), Helmond, Nederland
• Antoine Joseph GRÉGOIRE (72), Évrehailles, 91041, Namur, Belgique
• Anna Cornelia van den Heuvel (13), Haarlem
• Andreas Pieterszn Kersbergen (89), Schipluiden

• 1862 » May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and singer († 1938)
• 1865 » John Monash, Australian engineer and general († 1931)
• 1869 » Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist († 1940)
• 1869 » Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1869 » Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist († 1961)
• 1870 » Frank Rattray Lillie, American zoologist and embryologist († 1947)
• 1872 » Heber Doust Curtis, American astronomer († 1942)
• 1872 » Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright († 1906)
• 1880 » Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist († 1968)
• 1882 » Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and academic († 1963)

• 1829 » James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1765)
• 1831 » Sophie Germain, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
• 1839 » Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire (b. 1780)
• 1844 » Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
• 1844 » Joseph Smith, American religious leader, founded the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1805)
• 1878 » Sidney Breese, American jurist and politician (b. 1800)
• 1894 » Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1834)
• 1896 » John Berryman, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1825)
• 1905 » Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (b. 1867)
• 1907 » Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator, co-founded Radcliffe College (b. 1822)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 24 » Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
• May 16 » The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote.
• May 26 » The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal by one vote.
• June 23 » Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".
• November 4 » Camagüey, Cuba, revolts against Spain during the Ten Years' War.
• November 27 » American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.

The temperature on June 27, 1868 was about 17.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.