27 July History


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  • 1214    -    At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeats John of England.
  • 1245    -    Frederick II is deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege.
  • 1586    -    Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia.
  • 1663    -    British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
  • 1689    -    Government forces defeat the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie.
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  • 1777    -    The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British.
  • 1778    -    British and French fleets fight to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant.
  • 1793    -    Robespierre becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
  • 1861    -    President Abraham Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac.
  • 1905    -    The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago.
  • 1909    -    Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds.
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  • 1914    -    British troops invade the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and begin to disarm Irish rebels.
  • 1921    -    Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto.
  • 1944    -    U.S. troops complete the liberation of Guam.
  • 1953    -    Representatives of the United Nations, Korea and China sign an armistice at Panmunjon, Korea.
  • 1964    -    President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.
  • 1993    -    Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas.
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  • 27 July Birthdays

  • 1768    -    Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary, assassin of Jean Paul Marat.
  • 1777    -    Thomas Campbell, Scottish writer (The Pleasures of Hope).
  • 1870    -    Hilaire Belloc, French writer (Cautionary Tales).
  • 1906    -    Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager.
  • 1908    -    Joseph Mitchell, writer for The New Yorker.
  • 1930    -    David Hughes, English novelist (The Horsehair Sofa, The Man Who Invented Tomorrow).
  • 1939    -    Michael Longley, Irish poet.
  • 1940    -    Bharati Mukherjee, Indian novelist (The Middleman and Other Stories).