Events
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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