This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
07/27/1502 Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer 
07/27/1518 Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury/builder of country houses 
07/27/1609 Heinrich Pape, composer 
07/27/1612 Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1923-40)/conquered Baghdad 
07/27/1667 Jean Bernoulli, mathematician 
07/27/1734 Jakob Zupan, composer 
07/27/1741 Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer 
07/27/1768 Charlotte Corday d'Armont, murdered Jean-Paul Marat in bath 
07/27/1777 Thomas Campbell, poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic) 
07/27/1781 Mauro Giuliani, composer 
07/27/1784 Andr‚-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer (chamber music) 
07/27/1784 Georges Onslow, composer 
07/27/1801 George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal 
07/27/1802 Benedikt Randhartinger, composer 
07/27/1812 Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 189

07/27/1820 John Franklin Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers) 
07/27/1824 Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille) 
07/27/1835 GiosuŠ Carducci, Italy, poet (Nobel 1906) 
07/27/1840 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
07/27/1848 Roland baron E”tv”s, Hungarian physicist 
07/27/1848 Vladimir de Pachmann, painter 
07/27/1857 Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator 
07/27/1857 Jos‚ Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900 
07/27/1867 Enrique Granados, L‚rida Spain, composer (Maria del Carmen) 
07/27/1870 Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome) 
07/27/1872 Stanislav Binicki, composer 
07/27/1877 Ern” [Ernst von] Dohn nyi, Hungary, composer (Msg to Posterity) 
07/27/1878 Jean F van Royen, German secretary (PTT) 
07/27/1879 Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza) 
07/27/1880 Donald Crisp, Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana) 
07/27/1880 Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo

07/27/1881 Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930) 
07/27/1894 Gerald F Bogan, US vice-admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean) 
07/27/1899 Harl McDonald, near Boulder Colorado, composer (Santa F‚ Trail) 
07/27/1900 Hans Haug, composer 
07/27/1903 Clive Martin Douglas, composer 
07/27/1904 Anton Dolin, [Patrick Healey-Kay], dancer (Girl From Petrovka) 
07/27/1906 Leo Durocher, Mass, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants) 
07/27/1907 Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee 
07/27/1908 Lord Jenkins of Putney, Labour Arts minister 
07/27/1910 Julien Gracq, [Louis Poirier], French writer (Andr‚ Breton) 
07/27/1912 Igor Markevitch, Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdo) 
07/27/1913 Mary Green, headmistress (Kidbrooke School) 
07/27/1913 Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet (Diario d'Algeria) 
07/27/1916 Asfa Wossen, Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi 
07/27/1916 Kennan Wynn, NYC, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor) 
07/27/1916 Siegfried Reda, composer 
07/27/1917 John Cunningham, executive director (British Aerospace) 
07/27/1917 Robert Cowans, executive director (British Aerospace) 
07/27/1918 Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer 
07/27/1918 Leonard Rose, Washington DC, concert cellist (NY Phil 1943-51) 
07/27/1920 Beatrice Pearson, Texas, actress (Moving Finger) 
07/27/1920 James Munn, British university commissioner 
07/27/1922 Lillian Hayman, Balt Md, actress (Leslie Uggams Show) 
07/27/1922 Norman Lear, TV writer/producer (All in The Family) 
07/27/1924 Otar Vasil'yevich Taktakishvili, composer 
07/27/1924 Vincent Canby, critic (NY Times) 
07/27/1926 Peter Coker, captain 
07/27/1928 Sakari Mononen, composer 
07/27/1929 Harvey Fuqua, vocalist (Moonglows-Sincerely) 
07/27/1929 Jack Higgins, [Harry Patterson], novelist 
07/27/1929 Marc Wilkinson, composer 
07/27/1930 Ronald Dearing, chairman (British Post Office) 
07/27/1930 Shirley Williams, co-founder (Social Democratic Party)/labour minist

07/27/1931 Jerry Van Dyke, Danville Ill, actor (My Mother the Car, Coach) 
07/27/1932 Beverly B Byron, (Rep-D-MD, 1979-  ) 
07/27/1932 Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader 
07/27/1932 Diane Webber, LA Calif, playmate (May, 1955 & Feb, 1956) 
07/27/1932 Robert Cowan, CEO (Highlands & Islands Enterprises) 
07/27/1933 Nick Reynolds, rocker (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons) 
07/27/1934 John Pardoe, CEO (Sight & Sound Education)/Liberal MP 
07/27/1937 Anna Dawson, actress/comedienne 
07/27/1937 Chuck Jackson, Latta SC, singer (Any Day Now, I don't want to cry) 
07/27/1937 Don Galloway, Brooksville Ky, actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside) 
07/27/1938 Shirley Anne Field, England, actress (Alfie, War Lover) 
07/27/1939 Irv Cross, NFL sportscaster (CBS-TV) 
07/27/1939 James McGee, pathologist/professor (Morbid Anatomy at Oxford) 
07/27/1939 James Victor, Puerto Rico, actor (Boulevard Night, Streets of LA) 
07/27/1941 Johannes Fritsch, composer 
07/27/1942 Barbara Ferris, London England, actress (Nice Girl Like Me) 
07/27/1942 John Pleshette, NYC, actor (Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue) 
07/27/1943 Al Ramsey, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-This Diamond Ring) 
07/27/1943 Bill Bradley, Crystal City Mo, NY Knick/(Sen-D-NJ)/Rhodes scholar 
07/27/1943 Stu Gilliam, Detroit, actor/comedian (Roll Out, Harris & Company) 
07/27/1944 Bobbie Gentry, Mississippi, what did Billi-Jo throw off the bridge 
07/27/1946 Ricardo Anasagasti, [Ricardo M Meul], Cura‡aos dancer/actor 
07/27/1946 Toktar Ongarbajewitch Aubakirov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13) 
07/27/1947 Betty Thomas, St Louis Mo, actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues) 
07/27/1947 Wayne Dowdy, (Rep-D-MS, 1981-  ) 
07/27/1948 Henny Vrienten, Dutch bassist/singer (Doe Maar) 
07/27/1948 Peggy Fleming Jenkins, San Jose Calif, figure skater (Olym-gold-1968

07/27/1949 Maureen McGovern, Youngstown Oh, singer (Got To Be a Morning After) 
07/27/1950 Michael Vaughn, rocker (Paper Lace) 
07/27/1951 Janet Eilber, Detroit Mich, actress (Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy) 
07/27/1953 Wim G J M van de Camp, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA) 
07/27/1955 Allan Border, cricket captain (Australia) 
07/27/1957 Gezina E 'Liesbeth' van Apeldoorn, actress (Composer) 
07/27/1957 Hansi Muller, skier 
07/27/1958 Christopher Dean, Olympics skater (Torvill & Dean/Olympic-gold-1984)

07/27/1959 David East, cricketer 
07/27/1960 Jo Durie, England, tennis player 
07/27/1967 Sasha Mitchell, LA Calif, actor (Spike of Bensonhurst) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/27/  82 St Joseph of Arimathea, dies 
07/27/ 432 Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32), dies 
07/27/1101 Koenrad, RC-German king (1087-98), dies 
07/27/1128 Willem van Normandia, earl of Flanders, dies in battle 
07/27/1227 Otto II van Lippe, bishop of Utrecht (1216-27) 
07/27/1233 Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders, dies at 45 
07/27/1498 Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 7

07/27/1638 Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54 
07/27/1675 Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, gen (France), dies 
07/27/1689 John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, di

07/27/1720 Johann Samuel Welter, composer, dies at 69 
07/27/1759 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, astronomer/mathematician, dies 
07/27/1777 William Hayes, composer, dies at 69 
07/27/1783 Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62

07/27/1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed 
07/27/1822 Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60 
07/27/1828 Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies 
07/27/1841 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist, dies 
07/27/1844 John Dalton, physicist/chemist, dies 
07/27/1864 Margaret E Breckinridge, US nurse/daughter of VP John, dies 
07/27/1881 Johann Christian Lobe, composer, dies at 84 
07/27/1883 Montgomery Blair, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70 
07/27/1916 Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, di

07/27/1924 Ferruccio Benvenuto busoni, pianist/composer, dies 
07/27/1924 Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist/composer, dies at 58 
07/27/1934 Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79 
07/27/1942 William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist, dies 
07/27/1944 Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer, dies at 68 
07/27/1946 Gertrude Stein, US/French author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies 
07/27/1948 Francesco Spetrino, composer, dies at 91 
07/27/1952 W de Basil, [US Voskresenski], Russia, ballet dancer, dies 
07/27/1960 V sa Pr¡hoda, Czech violinist, dies at 59 
07/27/1961 Theodore Chanler, composer, dies at 59 
07/27/1962 Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies 
07/27/1968 Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem J M A Asselbergs], literary, dies 
07/27/1970 Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), dies 
07/27/1971 Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83 
07/27/1974 Lightning Slim, blues singer, dies at 61 
07/27/1976 Ray Brennan, becomes 1st to, die of 'Legionnaire's Disease' 
07/27/1978 Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer, dies at 72 
07/27/1978 [John] Willem van Otterloo, conductor/composer (Symphonic), dies at 

07/27/1980 Pahlawi Mohammed Reza, shah of Persia (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60

07/27/1981 Billy [William] Wyler, US director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies 
07/27/1981 Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song), dies at 64 
07/27/1981 William Wyler, US director (Ben Hur), dies 
07/27/1982 Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67 
07/27/1982 Vladimir Smirnov, Russian foil fencer (Olympic-gold-1980), dies at 2

07/27/1984 James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies at 75 of a heart attack 
07/27/1984 Oswald Jacoby, US contract bridge champion, dies at 81 
07/27/1985 Joseph 'Smoky Joe' Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95 
07/27/1986 Leroy Holmes, orch leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72 
07/27/1987 Travis Jackson, baseball player (NY Giants), dies at 83 
07/27/1990 Bobby Day, rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58 
07/27/1990 Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at 32 
07/27/1993 Reggie Lewis, NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/27/ 432 St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
07/27/1214 1st battle of Bouvines (King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV 
07/27/1230 Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX 
07/27/1280 Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China

07/27/1298 Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor 
07/27/1298 Roman Catholics German King Albrecht I von Habsburg installed 
07/27/1360 Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland 
07/27/1365 Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor 
07/27/1501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral 
07/27/1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia 
07/27/1641 Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep 
07/27/1643 Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough 
07/27/1655 Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetary 
07/27/1661 Parliament confirms Navigation Act 
07/27/1689 Battle of Killicrankie, Viscount Dundee defeats Whig General Mackay 
07/27/1689 Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie 
07/27/1694 Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament 
07/27/1789 Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept) 
07/27/1794 Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris 
07/27/1809 Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army 
07/27/1816 Fort Blount on Apalachicola Bay Fla, attacked by US Troops 
07/27/1830 Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X 
07/27/1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded 
07/27/1837 US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC 
07/27/1839 Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England 
07/27/1844 Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC 
07/27/1861 Battle of Mathias Point, VA - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing 
07/27/1861 Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico 
07/27/1861 McClellan replaces McDowell thus is given command of the 
07/27/1862 Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die 
07/27/1862 Steamer 'Golden Gate' burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico 
07/27/1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long) 
07/27/1879 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #200 Dynamene 
07/27/1880 Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson was wounded, breaks out 
07/27/1891 Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as gov of Suriname 
07/27/1897 14.75' (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record) 
07/27/1897 Dutch govt of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns 
07/27/1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of Dancing Men' (BG) 
07/27/1905 J Palisa discovers asteroid #569 Misa 
07/27/1908 A Kopff discovers asteroid #668 Dora 
07/27/1909 Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m 
07/27/1913 Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France 
07/27/1918 Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY 
07/27/1919 Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured) 
07/27/1920 Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation 
07/27/1920 Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cu

07/27/1921 2nd govt of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms 
07/27/1921 Frederick Banting & Charles Best isolates insulin at U of Toronto 
07/27/1922 International Geographical Union forms in Brussels 
07/27/1924 8th Olympic games closes in Paris 
07/27/1928 AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms 
07/27/1929 Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished 
07/27/1930 Andr‚ Leducq wins Tour de France 
07/27/1931 Chilean president Carlos Ib ¤ez forced out 
07/27/1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to dea

07/27/1933 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1312 Vassar 
07/27/1933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1284 Latvia 
07/27/1934 French socialistic/communistic party of People's Front forms 
07/27/1935 Floods at Yangtzee Jiang & Hoangh, kills 200,000 
07/27/1937 US win Davis Cup tennis tournament 
07/27/1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts 
07/27/1941 German army enters Ukraine 
07/27/1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China 
07/27/1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor) 
07/27/1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp 
07/27/1944 US regains possession of Guam from Japanese 
07/27/1944 US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy 
07/27/1945 US Communist Party forms 
07/27/1946 Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs 
07/27/1947 Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak 
07/27/1949 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies 
07/27/1950 Pres Truman promises aid to Taiwan 
07/27/1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2) 
07/27/1953 1st insulin isolated by F Banting & C Best in Toronto 
07/27/1953 North Korea & UN sign armistice 
07/27/1953 Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory 
07/27/1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries 
07/27/1954 Chick Harbert wins PGA golf tournament 
07/27/1955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation 
07/27/1955 Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die) 
07/27/1955 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1751 Herget 
07/27/1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die 
07/27/1957 St James' Theater in London closes 
07/27/1960 VP Nixon nominated for pres at Republican convention in Chicago 
07/27/1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission 
07/27/1962 Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia 
07/27/1963 Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ 
07/27/1963 General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria 
07/27/1965 Pierre Harmel forms Belgium govt 
07/27/1967 Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns 
07/27/1968 Race Riot in Gary Indiana 
07/27/1969 Pioneer 10 launched 
07/27/1972 NHL star Maurice 'Rocket' Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques 
07/27/1973 Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners 
07/27/1974 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment 
07/27/1976 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese 
07/27/1976 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair) 
07/27/1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US 
07/27/1978 Portuguese pres Eanes fires premier Soares 
07/27/1980 Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dea

07/27/1982 Indian PM Indira Gandhi 1st visit to US in almost 11 years 
07/27/1985 Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.78) 
07/27/1986 Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France 
07/27/1987 John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi 'Ivan the Terrible' testifies in Israel

07/27/1988 Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years 
07/27/1988 General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as pres of Burma 
07/27/1988 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer 
07/27/1989 Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th) 
07/27/1990 White-Russia declares independence 
07/27/1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop 
07/27/1991 Rocker Jani Lane, (Warrant-Cherry Pie) marries model Bobbie Brown 
07/27/1991 TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition 
07/27/1993 Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees 
07/27/1993 Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high 
07/27/1993 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 kille

07/27/1993 NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million 
07/27/1993 NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games 
  
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