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27 Jul 1230
Treaty of San Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX
27 Jul 1280
Sogen Mugaku founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China
27 Jul 1298
Albert (Albrecht) I son of Rudolf of Habsburg crowned King of the Germans
27 Jul 1360
Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland
27 Jul 1549
1st Christian missionary in Japan Jesuit priest Francis Xavier reaches Japan but is not permitted to enter any port until 15 August
27 Jul 1655
Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
27 Jul 1655
Netherlands and Brandenburg sign military treaty
27 Jul 1689
Battle of Killicrankie Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royalist force under General MacKay
27 Jul 1694
Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament
27 Jul 1714
Battle at Hango (Hangut) Russians beat Swedish fleet
27 Jul 1720
The second important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Grengam
27 Jul 1789
US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department
27 Jul 1809
Battle of Talavera BritishSpanish army vs French army
27 Jul 1816
US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola a Seminole fort to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
27 Jul 1830
Revolution breaks out in Paris opposing laws of Charles X
27 Jul 1836
The ship the Duke of York arrives with the first colonists at Nepean Bay Kangaroo Island South Australia
27 Jul 1839
Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England
27 Jul 1844
Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte North Carolina
27 Jul 1861
Battle of Mathias Point Virginia - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing
27 Jul 1861
Battle of St Augustine Springs New Mexico Territory
27 Jul 1861
Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore New Mexico
27 Jul 1862
Steamer Golden Gate burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico
27 Jul 1864
Battle of Darbytown Virginia (Deep Bottom Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)
27 Jul 1866
Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1686 miles long)
27 Jul 1880
Alexander P. Ashbourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
27 Jul 1880
Battle of Maiwand at which Dr Watson is wounded breaks out
27 Jul 1884
The East Cleveland Street Railway Company begins the first U.S. commercial electric streetcar line in Cleveland Ohio on the Bentley-Knight system
27 Jul 1888
Philip Pratt unveils 1st American electric tricycle
27 Jul 1891
Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as governor of Suriname
27 Jul 1897
14.75 (37.5 cm) of rainfall Jewell Maryland (state 24-hr record)
27 Jul 1897
Dutch government of PiersonGoeman Borgesius resigns
27 Jul 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
27 Jul 1913
11th Tour de France won by Philippe Thys of Belgium
27 Jul 1914
Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
27 Jul 1917
World War I Allied troops reach the Yser Canal in the prelude to the Battle of Passchendaele
27 Jul 1918
Socony 200 1st concrete barge in US launched to carry oil NY
27 Jul 1919
Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed 500 injured)
27 Jul 1919
13th Tour de France won by Firmin Lambot of Belgium
27 Jul 1920
Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
27 Jul 1920
Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of Americas Cup
27 Jul 1920
14th Tour de France Belgian rider Philippe Thys becomes first to win the race 3 times
27 Jul 1922
International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
27 Jul 1924
VIII Summer Olympic Games close in Paris France
27 Jul 1927
Mel Ott 18 hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)
27 Jul 1928
Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July
27 Jul 1930
25th Davis Cup France beats USA in Paris (4-1)
27 Jul 1930
24th Tour de France won by Andre Leducq of France
27 Jul 1931
Chilean president Carlos Ibez forced out
27 Jul 1931
Grasshoppers in Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of crops
27 Jul 1932
Paul Gorgoulov assassin of French president Doumer sentenced to death
27 Jul 1934
French socialistcommunist party of Peoples Front forms
27 Jul 1935
Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh kill 200000
27 Jul 1937
32nd Davis Cup USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
27 Jul 1940
Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
27 Jul 1940
Bugs Bunny Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery Bob Givens (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series) first debuts in Wild Hare
27 Jul 1941
103F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
27 Jul 1944
1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
27 Jul 1944
US troops occupy le Mesnil-HermanHill 183 Normandy
27 Jul 1945
Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees
27 Jul 1946
Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game gets 10 RBIs
27 Jul 1946
45th Mens French Championships Marcel Bernard beats Jaroslav Drobny (3-6 2-6 6-1 6-4 6-3)
27 Jul 1946
45th Womens French Championships Margaret Osborne beats Pauline Betz (1-6 8-6 7-5)
27 Jul 1947
Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
27 Jul 1948
Australia set 404 to win v England at Headingley
27 Jul 1948
Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt
27 Jul 1949
1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies
27 Jul 1950
US President Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan
27 Jul 1952
Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (22303.2)
27 Jul 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
27 Jul 1953
Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
27 Jul 1953
Dizzy Dean Al Simmons Chief Bender Bobby Wallace Harry Wright Ed Barrow Bill Klem and Tom Connolly inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
27 Jul 1954
36th PGA Championship Chick Herbert at Keller GC St Paul Minnesota
27 Jul 1955
Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation since WWII
27 Jul 1955
Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria 58 die
27 Jul 1956
Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australias 1st innings at Manchester
27 Jul 1959
Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut
27 Jul 1959
William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
27 Jul 1963
Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha to become NWA champ
27 Jul 1963
General Amin al-Hafez becomes President of Syria
27 Jul 1967
Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns
27 Jul 1967
LBJ sets up commission to study cause of urban violence
27 Jul 1970
Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
27 Jul 1970
L Boudreau Earle Combs Ford Frick and Jesse Haines enter Baseball Hall of Fame
27 Jul 1973
40th NFL Chicago All Star Game Miami 14 All Stars 3 (54103)
27 Jul 1973
Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4000 winners
27 Jul 1974
House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
27 Jul 1974
Kanhai & Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket Warwickshire v Gloucs
27 Jul 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
27 Jul 1976
Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair)
27 Jul 1978
Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yanks)
27 Jul 1979
Broadway Opry 79 opens at St James Theater NYC for 6 performances
27 Jul 1980
Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp 1 dead
27 Jul 1983
104F (40.3C) in Garmersdorf (German record)
27 Jul 1986
24th Tennis Fed Cup USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0)
27 Jul 1986
Iraqi jets attack central Iranian city of Arak Iran threatens missile attack of gulf states supporting Iraq
27 Jul 1987
John Demjanjuk accused Nazi Ivan the Terrible testifies in Israel
27 Jul 1987
Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive
27 Jul 1987
First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic Inc.
27 Jul 1988
General Sein Lwin succeeds San Yu as the 6th President of Burma
27 Jul 1988
Baseball star Tommy John commits record 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3
27 Jul 1989
Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
27 Jul 1990
Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 mins in county cricket world record
27 Jul 1990
Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
27 Jul 1992
Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Republican National Convention
27 Jul 1992
Dimitri Lepikov Vladimir Pychenko Veniamin Taianovitch and Evgueni Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (711.95)
27 Jul 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
27 Jul 1993
Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees
27 Jul 1993
Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
27 Jul 1993
Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome Milan and Vatican City 5 killed
27 Jul 1993
NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for 456 million
27 Jul 1993
NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
27 Jul 1995
Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C.
27 Jul 1995
28th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
27 Jul 1996
Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park 1 killed 110 injured
27 Jul 1996
David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants v Worcs
27 Jul 1996
Brazilian pair Jackie Silva and Sandra Pires win inaugural womens beach volleyball gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics
27 Jul 1997
Candide closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances
27 Jul 1997
VictorVictoria closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 738 performances
27 Jul 1997
Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhousers 16
27 Jul 1997
Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria about 50 people killed.
27 Jul 1997
84th Tour de France won by Jan Ullrich of Germany
27 Jul 2002
Ukraine airshow disaster A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv Ukraine killing 85 injuring more than 100 largest air show disaster in history
27 Jul 2005
STS-114 NASA grounds the Space shuttle pending an investigation of the external tanks continued foam-shedding problem
27 Jul 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
27 Jul 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.
27 Jul 2008
95th Tour de France won by Carlos Sastre of Spain
27 Jul 2008
British Open Senior Mens Golf Royal Troon Bruce Vaughan birdies first extra playoff hole to beat fellow American John Cook by a stroke
27 Jul 2013
100 people are killed and 1500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo Egypt
27 Jul 2013
1000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi Libya
27 Jul 2013
First Przewalskis 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
27 Jul 2014
Liberia shuts down most of its borders with fears about the spread of Ebola epidemic
27 Jul 2014
101st Tour de France won by Vincenzo Nibali of Italy
27 Jul 2014
British Open Senior Mens Golf Royal Porthcawl Bernhard Langer of Germany wins his second Open Seniors title by 13 strokes from Colin Montgomerie of Scotland
27 Jul 1377
First example of quarantine in Rugusa (now Dubroknik) city council passes law saying newcomers from plague areas must isolation for 30 days (later 40 days quaranta in Italian)
27 Jul 1930
25th International Lawn Tennis Challenge Paris Jean Borotra beats American George Lott 5-7 6-3 2-6 6-2 8-6 to give France an unassailable 3-1 lead ends 4-1
27 Jul 1930
24th Tour de France French cyclist Andr Leducq scores first of 2 Tour victories (1932)
27 Jul 1946
French Championships Mens Tennis Marcel Bernard beats Jaroslav Drobn 3-6 2-6 6-1 6-4 6-3
27 Jul 1954
PGA Championship Mens Golf Keller GC Chick Herbert scores a 4 & 3 win over defending champion Walter Burkemo in the Tuesday final
27 Jul 1956
England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australias 1st innings in 4th Test at Manchester best return ever in Test cricket bettered in 2nd innings 10-53
27 Jul 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
27 Jul 2008
British Senior Open Mens Golf Royal Troon Bruce Vaughan birdies first extra playoff hole to beat fellow American John Cook by a stroke
27 Jul 1566
Tribunal convicts Agnes Waterhouse of witchcraft and sentences her to be first British woman executed for the crime (Chelmsford England)
27 Jul 1913
International Lawn Tennis Challenge Wimbledon England Maurice McLoughlin beats Charles Dixon 8-6 6-3 6-2 to give US an unassailable 3-1 lead over the British Isles US wins 3-2
27 Jul 1928
Kent cricket leg-spinner Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July
27 Jul 1930
International Lawn Tennis Challenge Paris France Home team wins 4th straight title as Jean Borotra beats American George Lott 5-7 6-3 2-6 6-2 8-6 for unassailable 3-1 lead ends 4-1
27 Jul 1937
International Lawn Tennis Challenge Wimbledon GB 4 title streak ends as American Frank Parker beats Charles Hare 6-2 6-4 6-2 for an unbeatable 3-1 lead ends 4-1
27 Jul 1985
Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway becomes first woman to run 10000m in under 31 minutes takes world record down to 3059.42 in Oslo Norway
27 Jul 1811
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Spanish Catholic priest and leader Mexican independence defrocked and excommunicated by the church
27 Jul 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
27 Jul 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 Gllheim
27 Jul 1862
Massive typhoon hits Canton and Whampoa in China at least 40000 die
27 Jul 1970
Lou Boudreau Earle Combs Ford Frick and Jesse Haines are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown New York
27 Jul 1978
Cleveland Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd in MLB history to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game at Yankee Stadium
27 Jul 1993
Detroit infielder Travis Fryman hits for cycle but Tigers lose 12-7 to NY Yankees
27 Jul 2003
British Senior Open Mens Golf Turnberry American Tom Watson wins in a playoff with Carl Mason of England
27 Jul 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 Gllheim
27 Jul 1789
US Congress establishes the Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department
27 Jul 1920
American defender Resolute beats Thomas Liptons British challenger Shamrock IV 3-2 in the 14th Americas Cup
27 Jul 1949
De Havilland Comet the worlds first commercial jet airliner makes its maiden flight
27 Jul 1959
Baseballs new Continental League is formally announced by attorney William Shea teams in Denver Colorado Houston Texas MinneapolisSt. Paul Minnesota New York City and Toronto Ontario are confirmed with three more to be named later
27 Jul 1964
Sometimes a Great Notion the second novel by Ken Kesey is published by Viking Press
27 Jul 1967
Helmond Sport football team founded in Helmond Netherlands
27 Jul 1973
Walter Blum becomes the sixth jockey to ride 4000 winners
27 Jul 1986
Iraqi fighter jets attack the central Iranian city of Arak forcing Iran to threaten a missile attack on gulf states supporting Iraq
27 Jul 1993
NBC TV is awarded coverage of the 1996 Olympics for 456 million
27 Jul 1996
Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park killing one and injuring 110
27 Jul 2005
NASA postpones all Shuttle flights pending an investigation into the foam-shedding problem on Discoverys external tanks
27 Jul 2014
Liberia shuts down most of its borders due to fears about the spread of Ebola epidemic
27 Jul 2015
Fiat Chrysler fined record 105 million by Us regulators over their number of car recalls
27 Jul 2015
The Shanghai Composite Index drops 8.5% in one day
27 Jul 2017
Reince Priebus resigns as Chief of Staff to US President Donald Trump after just over 6 months - shortest non-interim tenure ever
27 Jul 2018
CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves is accused of sexual misconduct in the New Yorker by journalist Ronan Farrow
27 Jul 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 4100m freestyle relay (WR 319.40)
27 Jul 2019
At least 65 mourners killed in a gun attack at a funeral near Maiduguri by suspected Boko Haram militants in north-east Nigeria
27 Jul 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]
27 Jul 2019
US President Trump calls Baltimore a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess calls Congress Rep Elijah Cummings responsible
27 Jul 2020
Google decides its employees can work from home until July 2021 the largest tech company to commit to working from home
27 Jul 2021
China tests a missile with a hypersonic weapon system later called very close to a Sputnik moment by a US general [1]
27 Jul 2021
Fiji retains Olympic Rugby Sevens title with 27-12 win over New Zealand in Tokyo only second gold in the countrys Olympic history
27 Jul 2021
Florida records its highest one-day total of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic at 21683
27 Jul 2021
talo Ferreira of Brazil and American Carissa Moore claim inaugural mens and womens surfing gold medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games
27 Jul 2021
Largest-ever repatriation of 17000 looted Iraqi antiquities returned to Baghdad including items from Hobby Lobbys Museum of the Bible and Cornell University
27 Jul 2021
Swiss team of Jolanda Neff Sina Frei and Linda Indergand make a clean sweep of the medals in the womens cross-country mountain bike event at the Tokyo Olympics
27 Jul 2021
Triathlete Flora Duffy claims historic first ever Olympic gold medal for Bermuda in the womens event at the Tokyo Games
27 Jul 2022
170-carat pink diamond the Lulo Rose thought to be largest discovered in 300 years announced found in Angola [1]
27 Jul 2023
City of Phoenix Arizona heat record continues with 28 consecutive days of temperature at or above 110F (43.3C) overnight low falls below 90F (32.2C) for first time in 18 days