27th
July, on this day
1214 Battle
of Bouvines: In France, Philip
II of France defeats John
of England.
1501 Copernicus
formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1549 Jesuit priest Francis
Xavier's ship reached Japan.
1586 English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh introduces tobacco to England
1661 Parliament confirms the Navigation
Act
1663 The British Parliament passes the second Navigation
Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have
to be sent in English ships from English ports.
1689 Jacobite
Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie
1694 An Act of Parliament in Britain establishes the Bank
of England
1794 French Revolution: Maximilien
Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more
than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution."
1816 Fort Blount on Apalachicola Bay Fla, attacked by US Troops
1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded
1844 Fire destroys the US mint at Charlotte, NC
1862 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast
of Mexico 231 die
1866 Atlantic
telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1880 Second
Anglo-Afghan War: Battle
of Maiwand - In a pyrrhic victory, Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan
defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
1890 Artist Vincent
van Gogh shots himself at the spot where he had painted Cornfield
With Flight Of Birds. He dies two days later, aged 37
1909 Orville
Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m
1914 Felix
Manalo registers the Iglesia
ni Cristo with the Filipino government
1917 Yser
Canal is acquired by Allies at the battle
of Paschendale. The trenches were empty.
1919 Chicago race riot (15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
1921 Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick
Banting announce the discovery of the hormone
insulin.
1924 8th
Olympic games closes in Paris
1940 The animated short "A Wild Hare" is released, introducing
the character of Bugs
Bunny.
1940 Billboard
magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster
Meteor)
1944 US regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1945 Sir Winston
Churchill's last day in office
1949 The world's first jet airliner, the de
Havilland Comet, makes its' maiden flight
1953 Korean
War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, and North
Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman
Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to
observe the armistice.
1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation
1960 VP Nixon nominated for pres at Republican convention in Chicago
1962 Mariner
2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
1962 Martin
Luther King Jr jailed in Albany, Georgia
1964 British politician Sir Winston
Churchill makes his final appearance in the House of Commons
1964 Vietnam
War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam
bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
1968 Race Riot in Gary, Indiana
1969 English rower Tom
McLean arrives off the Irish coast to become the first man to
row solo across the Atlantic Ocean - from west to east - a distance
of 2000 miles. His voyage took 72 days
1969 Pioneer 10 launched
1974 At Ascot, another win for English champion jockey
Lester Piggott in his 3,000th race
1974 In America, the First Article of Impeachment
is issued against President
Richard Nixon over the alleged cover-up of the Watergate break-in
1976 8.2 Tangshan
earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese
1976 Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei
Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange
and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed
bribery scandals.
1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's
Disease" kills 29 in Philadephia
1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in
US
1981 On British television Coronation
Street's Ken
Barlow marries Deirdre
Langton, which proves to be a national event, with massive viewer
numbers earned for the show.
1981 Adam
Walsh is murdered in a Sears store in Hollywood Mall in Hollywood,
Florida.
1982 Indian PM
Indira Gandhi 1st visit to US in almost 11 years
1983 Black
July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security
prison in Colombo were massacred by the Sinhalese prisoners, the second
such massacre in two days.
1985 English athlete Steve
Cram sets a new world record for the mile - 3 minutes 46.32 seconds
in Oslo
1987 John
Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies
in Israel
1987 First expedited salvaging of Titanic
wreckage begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.
1988 Radio
Shack announces the Tandy 1000 SL computer
1990 Zsa
Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
1990
Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from
the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day was celebrated as the Independence
Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration
of independence was transferred to June 3.
1990 The
Jamaat al Muslimeen stage a coup d'état attempt in Trinidad
and Tobago, occupying Parliament and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago
Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his
Cabinet, as well as the staff at the television station hostage for
6 days.
1991 Rocker Jani
Lane, (Warrant-Cherry Pie) marries model Bobbie Brown
1996 Centennial
Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes
at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996
Summer Olympics, killing two and injuring 111.
1997 Si
Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
2002 Ukraine
airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air
show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others,
the largest air show disaster in history.
2005 STS-114:
NASA grounds the Space shuttle, pending an investigation of the external
tank's continued foam-shedding problem. During ascent, the external
tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly
smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster;
this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
2006 The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss
of Bashkirian
2937 and DHL
Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
2007 Phoenix
News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona
television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School
Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were
no survivors. This was the first known incidence of two news helicopters
colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix
history.
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Birthdates which
occurred on 27th July :
1768 Charlotte
Corday assassin of Jean-Paul Marat
1801 George Biddle Airyy 7th Astronomer Royal
1824 Alexandre Dumas fils France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
1835 GiosuŠ Carducci Italy, poet (Nobel 1906)
1857 Jos‚ Celso Barbosa Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party
in 1900
1867 Enrique Granados L‚rida Spain, composer (Maria del Carmen)
1870 Joseph Hilaire Belloc England, author (Path to Rome)
1877 Ern” (Ernst von) Dohn nyi Hungary, composer (Msg to Posterity)
1880 Donald Crisp Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana)
1880 Joseph Tinker baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play
combo
1899 Harl McDonald near Boulder Colorado, composer (Santa F‚
Trail)
19-- Gwynne Gilford LA Calif, actress (Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders)
19-- Kimberley Simms actress (Mindy-Guiding Light)
19-- Mark Geary heavy metal rocker (Dangerous Toys-Hellacious Aces)
19-- Michael Evans actor (Douglas Austin-Young & Restless)
19-- Simon Jones Willshire England, comedian (The News is the News)
1904 Anton Dolin dancer (Girl From Petrovka)
1906 Leo Durocher Mass, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants)
1912 Igor Markevitch Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdo)
1916 Kennan Wynn NYC, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor)
1918 Leonard Rose Washington DC, concert cellist (NY Phil 1943-51)
1920 Beatrice Pearson Texas, actress (Moving Finger)
1922 Lillian Hayman Balt Md, actress (Leslie Uggams Show)
1922 Norman Lear TV writer/producer (All in The Family)
1924 Vincent Canby critic (NY Times)
1929 Harvey Fuqua vocalist (Moonglows-Sincerely)
1931 Jerry Van Dyke Danville Ill, actor (My Mother the Car, Coach)
1932 Diane Webber LA Calif, playmate (May, 1955 & Feb, 1956)
1937 Chuck Jackson Latta SC, singer (Any Day Now)
1937 Don Galloway Brooksville Ky, actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside)
1938 Shirley Anne Field England, actress (Alfie, War Lover)
1939 Irv Cross NFL sportscaster (CBS-TV)
1939 James Victor Puerto Rico, actor (Boulevard Night, Streets of
LA)
1942 Barbara Ferris London England, actress (Nice Girl Like Me)
1942 John Pleshette NYC, actor (Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue)
1943 Stu Gilliam Detroit, actor/comedian (Roll Out, Harris & Company)
1944 Bobbie Gentry Mississippi, what did Billi-Jo throw off the bridge
1947 Betty Thomas St Louis Mo, actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues)
1948 Peggy Fleming San Jose Cal, ice figure skater (Olympic-gold-1968)
1949 Maureen McGovern Youngstown Oh, singer (Got to be a morning after)
1951 Janet Eilber Detroit Mich, actress (Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy)
1960 Jo Durie England, tennis player
1967 Sasha Mitchell LA Calif, actor (Spike of Bensonhurst)
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Deaths which occurred
on July 27th:
1883 Montgomery Blair lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70
1974 Lightning Slim blues singer, dies at 61
1976 Ray Brennan becomes 1st to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease"
1980 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahavala of Iran, dies in Cairo at 60
1981 Ray Harrison dancer (American Song), dies at 64
1982 Dan Seymour actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67
1984 James Mason actor, dies at 75 of a heart attack
1986 Leroy Holmes orch leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72
1990 Bobby Day rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 60
1990 Kim Thomas-Friedland news anchor (FNN), dies at 32
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