On June 27, 1709 in the Great Northern War: Peter the Great of Russia defeated Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. Charles then went into exile in Bender, in the Ottoman Empire.  The painting above is titled The Battle of Poltava by Pierre-Denis Martin. — June 27th, 1893: Great stock crash on the New York Stock Exchange, known as the Panic of 1893. — Today is the birthday of the late Leroy James Sullivan (born June 27, 1933 – September 22, 2024), an American firearms inventor. Jim Sullivan designed several “scaled-down” versions of larger firearms. He also … The post Preparedness Notes for Friday — June 27, 2025 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.