Notable Historical Events on July 27th
July 27th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
432 |
St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1214 |
1st battle of Bouvines - King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV |
1230 |
Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX |
1280 |
Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China |
1298 |
Albert (Albrecht) I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned King of the Germans |
1360 |
Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland |
1501 |
Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral |
1549 |
Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reached Japan. |
1563 |
French army recaptures Le Havre |
1586 |
Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia |
1641 |
Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep |
1643 |
Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough |
1655 |
Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery |
1655 |
Netherlands & Brandenburg sign military treaty |
1661 |
English Parliament confirms Navigation Act |
1663 |
English Parliament accepts Staple Act |
1689 |
Battle of Killicrankie: Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royalist force under General MacKay |
1694 |
Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament |
1713 |
Russia & Turkey sign peace treaty |
1714 |
Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet |
1714 |
British Queen Anne dismisses premier Robert Haley |
1720 |
The second important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Grengam. |
1789 |
US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs (State dept) |
1794 |
Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris |
1795 |
Spain & France sign peace treaty |
1809 |
Battle of Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army |
1816 |
US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves |
1830 |
Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X |
1836 |
Adelaide, South Australia, founded |
1837 |
US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC |
1839 |
Chartist riots break out in Birmingham, England |
1844 |
Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC |
1861 |
Battle of Mathias Point, VA - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing |
1861 |
Battle of St Augustine Springs, NM Terr |
1861 |
Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico |
1861 |
Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army |
1862 |
Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die |
1862 |
Steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico |
1864 |
Battle of Darbytown, VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains) |
1865 |
Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina. |
1866 |
Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long) |
1880 |
A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil |
1880 |
Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson is wounded, breaks out |
1884 |
The East Cleveland Street Railway Company begins the first U.S. commercial electric streetcar line in Cleveland, Ohio, on the Bentley-Knight system |
1888 |
Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile |
1891 |
Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as governor of Suriname |
1897 |
14.75" (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record) |
1897 |
Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns |
1898 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men" (BG) |
1909 |
Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s |
1913 |
Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France |
1914 |
Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade |
1914 |
Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government. |
1917 |
The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele. |
1918 |
Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY |
1919 |
Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured) |
1920 |
Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation |
1920 |
Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup |
1921 |
2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms |
1921 |
Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto |
1922 |
International Geographical Union forms in Brussels |
1924 |
8th Olympic games closes in Paris |
1927 |
Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park) |
1928 |
AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms |
1928 |
Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July. |
1929 |
Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished |
1930 |
Andre Leducq wins Tour de France |
1930 |
25th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (4-1) |
1931 |
Chilean president Carlos Ibáñez forced out |
1931 |
Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr & SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops |
1932 |
Paul Gorgoulov, assassin of French president Doumer, sentenced to death |
1934 |
French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms |
1935 |
Floods at Yangtzee Jiang & Hoangh, kills 200,000 |
1937 |
32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1) |
1940 |
Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts |
1940 |
Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare" |
1941 |
103°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July |
1941 |
German army enters Ukraine |
1941 |
Japanese forces land in Indo-China |
1943 |
772 British bombers attack Hamburg |
1944 |
1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor) |
1944 |
Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp |
1944 |
US regains possession of Guam from Japanese |
1944 |
US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy |
1945 |
Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees |
1945 |
US Communist Party forms |
1946 |
Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs |
1947 |
Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak |
1948 |
Australia set 404 to win v England at Headingley |
1948 |
Bradman's 29th & last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404 |
1948 |
Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt |
1949 |
1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies |
1950 |
Pres Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan |
1952 |
Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2) |
1953 |
North Korea & UN sign armistice |
1953 |
Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory |
1953 |
Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, & Bill Klem & Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame |
1954 |
36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller GC St Paul Minn |
1954 |
Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries |
1955 |
Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation |
1955 |
Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die |
1956 |
Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings at Manchester |
1957 |
St James' Theater in London closes |
1958 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open |
1959 |
Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut |
1959 |
William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961 |
1960 |
US Vice-president Richard Nixon nominated for presidential candidate at Republican convention in Chicago |
1962 |
Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission |
1962 |
Martin Luther King Jr. jailed in Albany Georgia |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1963 |
Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
1963 |
General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria |
1965 |
Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government |
1965 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking |
1967 |
Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns |
1967 |
Helmond Sport soccer team forms |
1967 |
LBJ sets up commission to study cause of urban violence |
1967 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open |
1968 |
Race Riot in Gary Indiana |
1969 |
15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
1969 |
Pioneer 10 launched |
1970 |
Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game |
1970 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1970 |
L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, & Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame |
1972 |
The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time. |
1973 |
40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103) |
1973 |
Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners |
1974 |
House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment |
1974 |
Kanhai & Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire v Gloucs |
1975 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic |
1975 |
The British government closes its consulate in Angola following increasing fighting between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and South African troops |
1976 |
8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese |
1976 |
Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair) |
1977 |
John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US |
1978 |
Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yanks) |
1978 |
Portuguese pres Eanes fires premier Soares |
1979 |
"Broadway Opry '79" opens at St James Theater NYC for 6 performances |
1979 |
France performs nuclear Test |
1980 |
Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead |
1980 |
Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic |
1982 |
California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times |
1982 |
Indian PM Indira Gandhi 1st visit to US in almost 11 years |
1982 |
Menken & Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors" premieres in NYC |
1983 |
104°F (40.3°C) in Garmersdorf (German record) |
1983 |
Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan & Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal |
1984 |
Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila) |
1986 |
14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley |
1986 |
24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0) |
1986 |
Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France |
1986 |
Iraqi jets attack central Iranian city of Arak; Iran threatens missile attack of gulf states supporting Iraq |
1987 |
John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible", testifies in Israel |
1987 |
Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive |
1987 |
First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc. |
1988 |
Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years |
1988 |
General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as pres of Burma |
1988 |
Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer |
1988 |
Baseball star Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3 |
1989 |
Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th) |
1990 |
Graham Gooch scores 333 v India at Lord's |
1990 |
Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 mins in county cricket, world record |
1990 |
White-Russia declares independence |
1990 |
Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop |
1991 |
TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition |
1992 |
Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep Natl Convention |
1992 |
Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch & Evgueni |
1992 |
Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95) |
1992 |
Nelson Mandela says that a general strike will go ahead; the aim of the mass protest was the peaceful removal of President De Klerk from power, the immediate transfer of political power to the people and free and fair elections to a constituent assembly |
1993 |
Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees |
1993 |
Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high |
1993 |
Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed |
1993 |
NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million |
1993 |
NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games |
1995 |
In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated. |
1996 |
Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured |
1996 |
David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants v Worcs |
1997 |
"Candide" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances |
1997 |
"Victor/Victoria" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 738 performances |
1997 |
Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16 |
1997 |
Franklin Quest Senior Golf Championship |
1997 |
Stewart Cink wins golfs Greater Hartford Open (267) |
1997 |
Tammie Green wins Giant Eagle LPGA Classic |
1997 |
Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed. |
1999 |
Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to land a "900" |
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. |
2003 |
A group of 321 Filipino armed soldiers called "Magdalo" took over the Oakwood Premier Ayala Center in Makati City to show the Filipino people the alleged corruption of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration |
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. |
2012 |
Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony |
2012 |
2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony occurs |
2013 |
100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt |
2013 |
1,000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi, Libya |
2013 |
First Przewalski's horse (whose wild populations were believed extinct in 1969) is born via artificial insemination at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute as part of a worldwide effort to rebuild the wild herds |
2014 |
Vincenzo Nibali of Italy wins the Tour de France |
2016 |
2 Brazil warplanes collide while training for Olympics duty |
2016 |
Obama says it is possible Russia would try to sway US election |
2017 |
LGBT outrage over Trump ban on transgender military service |
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