About July 27
July 27, 2022 is the 208th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 157 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 179 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 27
- 1189 –Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 1900 –Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, “Hun” would be a disparaging name for Germans.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1955 –The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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;
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