June 27 in history — On This Day

A photograph taken after the 1871 fire can make Chicago look as though its future had been decided by a wall of flame. A view from around 1905 tells a different story: tall offices, busy transport routes and commercial streets crowded again.

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Atlantis launches the first shuttle mission to dock with Mir

This Week in History

Sholes and collaborators receive a typewriter patent

AI History Recreations

Politics

New Yorkers march silently against racial violence

War & Conflict

American troops take Hamburger Hill

Space

Atlantis launches the first shuttle mission to dock with Mir

Technology

Sholes and collaborators receive a typewriter patent

History

New York opens the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations

Scientific American begins publication

Atlanta’s WERD begins broadcasting

Crime & Justice

Joetha Collier is murdered in Mississippi

Leno and Rosemary LaBianca are murdered in Los Angeles

Seven Lives Lost: The Unsolved Mystery of United Air Lines Flight 23

Science

A criticality accident exposes Louis Slotin to radiation

Einstein Arrives in America as a Refugee

The Night the Leonids Filled the Sky

Medicine & Health

The First Successful Human Kidney Transplant

The First American IVF Baby Is Born

Nature & Disasters

Market Street Before and After the 1906 Earthquake

A Wyoming Discovery Brings the Black-Footed Ferret Back Into View

The Night the Peshtigo Fire Overwhelmed a Wisconsin Town

Exploration

The First Flight Around the World Returns to Seattle

Nellie Bly Begins Her Journey Around the World

Magellan's Expedition Enters the Pacific

Sport

Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland 0: The Game Behind the Impossible Score

Rutgers and Princeton Play the First Intercollegiate Football Game

Mike Tyson Becomes the Youngest Heavyweight Titleholder

Art & Literature

The Ninth Street Show opens in New York

Washington National Cathedral Lays Its Foundation Stone

Norman Rockwell introduces Willie Gillis to magazine readers

Music

Stravinsky’s Orpheus premieres in New York

The Kennedy Center opens with Bernstein’s Mass

Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial

Film & TV

Disney’s Three Little Pigs premieres

Edison’s laboratory demonstrates a prototype Kinetoscope

The Wizard of Oz has its Hollywood premiere

The Story Behind the Photo

Chicago After the Fire: From Burned Blocks to a New Skyline

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