About July 27
July 27, 2024 is the 209th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 157 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 186 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 27
- 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.
- 1549 –The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier’s ship reaches Japan.
- 1689 –Glorious Revolution: the Battle of Killiecrankie ends.
- 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”.
- 1866 –The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
- 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.
- 1921 –Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
- 1941 –Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1987 –RMS Titanic, Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
- 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.
- 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.
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