Events
of the day
1054
– Siward, Earl of
Northumbria invades
Scotland and defeats
Macbeth, King of Scotland
somewhere north of
the Firth of Forth.
1189 – Friedrich Barbarossa
arrives at Niš, the
capital of Serbian
King Stefan Nemanja,
during the Third Crusade.
1202 – Battle of Basian.
1214 – Battle of Bouvines:
in France, Philip
II of France defeats
John of England.
1302 – Battle of Bapheus:
decisive Ottoman victory
over the Byzantines
opening up Bithynia
for Turkish conquest.
1549 – The Jesuit
priest Francis Xavier's
ship reaches Japan.
1663 – The English
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 – Glorious Revolution:
the Battle of Killiecrankie
ends.
1694 – A Royal Charter
is granted to the
Bank of England.
1720 – The Battle
of Grengam marks the
second important victory
of the Russian Navy.
1778 – American Revolution:
First Battle of Ushant
– British and French
fleets fight to a
standoff.
1789 – The first U.S.
federal government
agency, the Department
of Foreign Affairs,
is established (it
will be later renamed
Department of State).
1794 – French Revolution:
Maximilien Robespierre
is arrested after
encouraging the execution
of more than 17,000
"enemies of the
Revolution".
1862 – Sailing from
San Francisco to Panama
City, the SS Golden
Gate catches fire
and sinks off Manzanillo,
Mexico, killing 231.
1865 – Welsh settlers
arrive at Chubut in
Argentina.
1866 – The first permanent
transatlantic telegraph
cable is successfully
completed, stretching
from Valentia Island,
Ireland, to Heart's
Content, Newfoundland.
1880 – Second Anglo-Afghan
War: Battle of Maiwand
– Afghan forces led
by Ayub Khan defeat
the British Army in
battle near Maiwand,
Afghanistan.
1890 – Vincent van
Gogh shoots himself
and dies two days
later.
1900 – Kaiser Wilhelm
II makes a speech
comparing Germans
to Huns; for years
afterwards, "Hun"
would be a disparaging
name for Germans.
1914 – Felix Manalo
registers the Iglesia
ni Cristo with the
Philippine government.
1917 – The Allies
reach the Yser Canal
at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1919 – The Chicago
Race Riot erupts after
a racial incident
occurred on a South
Side beach, leading
to 38 fatalities and
537 injuries over
a five-day period.
1921 – Researchers
at the University
of Toronto led by
biochemist Frederick
Banting prove that
the hormone insulin
regulates blood sugar.
1928 – Tich Freeman
becomes the only bowler
ever to take 200 first-class
wickets before the
end of July.
1929 – The Geneva
Convention of 1929,
dealing with treatment
of prisoners-of-war,
is signed by 53 nations.
1940 – The animated
short A Wild Hare
is released, introducing
the character of Bugs
Bunny.
1941 – Japanese troops
occupy French Indo-China.
1942 – World War II:
Allied forces successfully
halt the final Axis
advance into Egypt.
1949 – Initial flight
of the de Havilland
Comet, the first jet-powered
airliner.
1953 – Fighting in
the Korean War ends
when the United States,
the 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.
1955 – The Allied
occupation of Austria
stemming from World
War II, ends.
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.
1974 – Watergate Scandal:
the House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee
votes 27 to 11 to
recommend the first
article of impeachment
(for obstruction of
justice) against President
Richard Nixon.
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.
1981 – British television:
on Coronation Street,
Ken Barlow marries
Deirdre Langton, which
proves to be a national
event scoring massive
viewer numbers for
the show.
1981 – 6 year old
Adam Walsh, son of
John Walsh is kidnapped
in Hollywood, Florida
and is found murdered
two weeks later.
1983 – Black July:
18 Tamil political
prisoners at the Welikada
high security prison
in Colombo are massacred
by Sinhalese prisoners,
the second such massacre
in two days.
1987 – RMS Titanic,
Inc. begins the first
expedited salvage
of wreckage of the
RMS Titanic.
1990 – The Supreme
Soviet of the Belarusian
Soviet Republic declares
independence of Belarus
from the Soviet Union.
Until 1996 the day
is celebrated as the
Independence Day of
Belarus; after a referendum
held that year the
celebration of independence
is moved to June 3.
1990 – The Jamaat
al Muslimeen attempt
a coup d'état in Trinidad
and Tobago, occupying
the Trinidad 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.
1995 – The Korean
War Veterans Memorial
is dedicated in Washington,
D.C..
1996 – Centennial
Olympic Park bombing:
in Atlanta, United
States, a pipe bomb
explodes at Centennial
Olympic Park during
the 1996 Summer Olympics.
One woman (Alice Hawthorne)
is killed, and a cameraman
suffers a heart attack
fleeing the scene.
111 are injured.
1997 – About 50 people
are killed in the
Si Zerrouk massacre
in Algeria.
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
continuing problem
with the shedding
of foam insulation
from the external
fuel tank. 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;
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Aurelius and Natalia
and companions of
the Martyrs of Córdoba.
Pantaleon
Seven Sleepers of
Ephesus (Roman Martyrology)
July 27 (Eastern Orthodox
liturgics)
Iglesia Ni Cristo
Day (the Philippines)
José Celso Barbosa
Day (Puerto Rico)
Martyrs and Invalids
Day (Vietnam)
National Sleepy Head
Day (Finland)
Victory Day (North
Korea)
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