Historical Events on July 27

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• 432 St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

• 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 I of Habsburg is proclaimed King of the Germans after the defeat and death of King Adolf of Nassau at the Battle of Göllheim
• 1360 Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby, Gotland

• 1566 Tribunal convicts Agnes Waterhouse of witchcraft, and sentences her to be first British woman executed for the crime (Chelmsford, England)

• 1655 Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
• 1655 Netherlands and 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 and Turkey sign peace treaty
• 1714 Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet

• 1720 The second important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Grengam
• 1789 US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department

• 1795 Spain and France sign peace treaty
• 1809 Battle of Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army
• 1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Spanish Catholic priest, and leader Mexican independence, defrocked and excommunicated by the church
• 1816 US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves

• 1836 The ship the "Duke of York" arrives with the first colonists at Nepean Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
• 1837 US Mint opens in Charlotte, North Carolina
• 1839 Chartist riots break out in Birmingham, England
• 1844 Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, North Carolina
• 1861 Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing
• 1861 Battle of St Augustine Springs, New Mexico Territory
• 1861 Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico

• 1862 Massive typhoon hits Canton and Whampoa in China; at least 40,000 die
• 1862 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico
• 1864 Battle of Darbytown, Virginia (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)
• 1865 Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.

• 1880 Alexander P. Ashbourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
• 1880 Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson is wounded, breaks out
• 1888 Philip Pratt unveils 1st American electric tricycle

• 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
• 1909 British ship SS Waratah is last seen en-route from Durban to Cape Town; 211 on board are missing and no trace of the ship ever found

• 1914 Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
• 1914 Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
• 1917 World War I: Allied troops reach the Yser Canal in the prelude to 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

• 1922 International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
• 1924 VIII Summer Olympic Games close in Paris, France

• 1928 AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms
• 1928 Kent cricket leg-spinner Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July
• 1929 Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
• 1931 Chilean president Carlos Ibáñez forced out
• 1931 Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota 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 and Hoangh, kill 200,000
• 1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
• 1940 Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Bob Givens (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first 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 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

• 1948 Australia set 404 to win v England at Headingley

• 1948 Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt
• 1949 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies
• 1950 US President Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan
• 1952 Swedish race walker John Mikaelsson makes it back-to-back gold medals in the 10k event at the Helsinki Olympics, having won the corresponding race in London in 1948
• 1953 Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons "Chief" Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, Bill Klem and Tom Connolly inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame

• 1953 Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
• 1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
• 1955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation since WWII
• 1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
• 1956 England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings in 4th Test at Manchester; best return ever in Test cricket; bettered in 2nd innings 10-53
• 1957 St James' Theatre in London closes
• 1959 Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut
• 1959 Baseball's new Continental League is formally announced by attorney William Shea; teams in Denver, Colorado; Houston, Texas; Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota; New York City; and Toronto, Ontario are confirmed, with three more to be named later
• 1959 William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961

• 1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission

• 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
• 1964 "Sometimes a Great Notion", the second novel by Ken Kesey is published by Viking Press
• 1965 Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government

• 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 Race Riot in Gary Indiana
• 1970 Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
• 1970 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
• 1970 Lou Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
• 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 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 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair)
• 1978 Cleveland Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd in MLB history to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game, at Yankee Stadium

• 1979 France performs nuclear Test
• 1980 Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead

• 1983 104°F (40.3°C) in Garmersdorf (German record)

• 1984 West Indies cricket opening batsman Gordon Greenidge smashes 223 in innings & 64 run win over England in 4th Test at Manchester; Windies lead series, 4-0

• 1986 Iraqi jets attack central Iranian city of Arak; Iran threatens missile attack of gulf states supporting Iraq
• 1987 First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.
• 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

• 1988 Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
• 1988 General Sein Lwin succeeds San Yu as the 6th President of Burma
• 1988 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer

• 1990 White-Russia declares independence

• 1991 TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition
• 1992 Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Republican National Convention
• 1992 Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch and Evgueni Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95)
• 1992 Japanese swimmer Kyoko Iwasaki wins the 200m breaststroke in Barcelona to become the youngest to win an Olympic gold medal at 14 years-6 days

• 1993 Detroit infielder Travis Fryman hits for cycle but Tigers lose, 12-7 to NY Yankees
• 1993 Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
• 1993 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome, Milan and 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 Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• 1996 Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
• 1996 Brazilian pair Jackie Silva and Sandra Pires win inaugural women's beach volleyball gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics
• 1996 David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants v Worcs
• 1997 Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16
• 1997 Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
• 2002 A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an airshow at Lviv, Ukraine, killing 85 and injuring more than 100 in the largest airshow disaster in history

• 2005 STS-114: NASA grounds the Space shuttle, pending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam-shedding problem
• 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 Two 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. Worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.

• 2013 1,000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi, Libya
• 2013 100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt
• 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 Liberia shuts down most of its borders with fears about the spread of Ebola epidemic

• 2015 Fiat Chrysler fined record $105 million by Us regulators over their number of car recalls
• 2015 The Shanghai Composite Index drops 8.5% in one day

• 2017 Reince Priebus resigns as Chief of Staff to US President Donald Trump, after just over 6 months - shortest non-interim tenure ever

• 2018 CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves is accused of sexual misconduct in the "New Yorker" by journalist Ronan Farrow
• 2019 American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins 3 gold medals in one day at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea; 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly and mixed 4×100m freestyle relay (WR 3:19.40)
• 2019 At least 65 mourners killed in a gun attack at a funeral near Maiduguri, by suspected Boko Haram militants in north-east Nigeria
• 2019 MLB Phillies revive reviled 1979 all-burgundy alternate uniforms as part of a "retro night" promotion in 15-7 loss to Atlanta Braves at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia [1]
• 2019 US President Trump, calls Baltimore a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess," calls Congress Rep Elijah Cummings responsible
• 2020 Google decides its employees can work from home until July 2021, the largest tech company to commit to working from home

• 2021 China tests a missile with a hypersonic weapon system, later called “very close” to a Sputnik moment by a US general [1]
• 2021 Fiji retains Olympic Rugby Sevens title with 27-12 win over New Zealand in Tokyo; only second gold in the country's Olympic history
• 2021 Florida records its highest one-day total of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic at 21,683
• 2021 Ítalo Ferreira of Brazil and American Carissa Moore claim inaugural men's and women's surfing gold medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games
• 2021 Largest-ever repatriation of 17,000 looted Iraqi antiquities returned to Baghdad, including items from Hobby Lobby's Museum of the Bible and Cornell University
• 2021 Swiss team of Jolanda Neff, Sina Frei and Linda Indergand make a clean sweep of the medals in the women's cross-country mountain bike event at the Tokyo Olympics
• 2021 Triathlete Flora Duffy claims historic first ever Olympic gold medal for Bermuda in the women's event at the Tokyo Games
• 2022 170-carat pink diamond the "Lulo Rose," thought to be largest discovered in 300 years, announced found in Angola [1]

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