July 27

July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining.

Events

• 1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
• 1789 - The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (later renamed Department of State).
• 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre arrested
• 1866 - Transatlantic cable laid
• 1887 - Giuseppe Peano marries Carola Crosio
• 1953 - End of the Korean War
• 1996 - The Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics kills one and injures 111.

Births

• 1824 - Alexandre Dumas fils, author (+ 1895)
• 1886 - Ernst May[?], architect (+ 1970)
• 1901 - Rudy Vallee, singer (+ 1986)
• 1903 - Nikolai Cherkasov[?], actor (+ 1966)
• 1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1978 (+ 1991)
• 1905 - Leo Durocher[?], member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (+ 1991)
• 1912 - Hilde Domin[?], writer
• 1915 - Mario Del Monaco[?], tenor (+ 1982)
• 1916 - Elizabeth Hardwick[?], novelist
• 1916 - Keenan Wynn[?], actor (+ 1986)
• 1917 - Bourvil[?] (André Raimbourg), actor (+ 1970)
• 1922 - Norman Lear, television producer
• 1940 - Pina Bausch[?], dancer
• 1948 - Peggy Fleming[?], Olympic gold medalist in figure skating
• 1967 - Juliana Hatfield, musician
• 1977 - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers[?], actor

Deaths

• 1276 - James I of Aragon
• 1841 - Mikhail Lermontov, author
• 1844 - John Dalton, English chemist
• 1863 - William Lowndes Yancey[?], Southern secession leader
• 1917 - Emil Theodor Kocher, surgeon and biologist
• 1924 - Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer
• 1958 - Claire Chennault, World War II aviator
• 1980 - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi[?], Shah of Iran
• 1981 - Ryann Lea Forester[?], president of UAH PRCA
• 1981 - William Wyler, film director
• 1984 - James Mason, actor
• 2001 - Leon Wilkeson[?], bass (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

Holidays and observances

• Cuba - Revolution Day, 2nd Day
• Maldives - Independence Day, 2nd Day
• Puerto Rico - José Celso Barbosa's Birthday
• Vietnam - Memorial Day for War Martyrs
• Ancient Latvia - Septinu Guletaju Diena held

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