This Day in History for 27th July

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 185

432 - St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1214 - 1st battle of Bouvines - King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV
1230 - Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX
1280 - Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China
1298 - Albert (Albrecht) I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned King of the Germans
1360 - Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland
1501 - Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1549 - Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reached Japan.
1563 - French army recaptures Le Havre
1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1641 - Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep
1643 - Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough
1655 - Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
1655 - Netherlands & Brandenburg sign military treaty
1661 - Parliament confirms Navigation Act
1663 - English parliament accepts Staple Act
1689 - Battle of Killicrankie Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royal force under General MacKay
1694 - Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament
1713 - Russia & Turkey sign peace treaty
Mathematician and Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus 1714 - Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet
1714 - English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley
1720 - The second important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Grengam.
1789 - Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept)
1794 - Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris
1795 - Spain & France sign peace treaty
1809 - Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army
1816 - US troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1830 - Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X
1836 - Adelaide, South Australia founded
1837 - US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
1839 - Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England
1844 - Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC
1861 - Battle of Mathias Point, VA - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing
1861 - Battle of St Augustine Springs, NM Terr
1861 - Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico
1861 - Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
1862 - Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die
1862 - Steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico
1864 - Battle of Darbytown, VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)
1865 - Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1866 - Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1880 - A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
1880 - Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson is wounded, breaks out
1888 - Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
1891 - Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as gov of Suriname
1897 - 14.75" (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record)
1897 - Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns
1898 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men" (BG)
Aviator Orville Wright 1909 - Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
1913 - Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France
1914 - Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
1914 - Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
1917 - The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1918 - Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY
1919 - Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
1920 - Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
1920 - Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
1921 - 2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1921 - Frederick Banting & Charles Best isolates insulin at U of Toronto
1922 - International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
1924 - 8th Olympic games closes in Paris
1927 - Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)
1928 - AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms
1928 - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July.
1929 - Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
1930 - Andre Leducq wins Tour de France
1931 - Chilean president Carlos Ibáñez forced out
1931 - Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr & SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1932 - Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death
1934 - French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1935 - Floods at Yangtzee Jiang & Hoangh, kills 200,000
1937 - 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
1940 - Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1940 - Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"
1941 - 103°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
1941 - German army enters Ukraine
1941 - Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1943 - 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
1944 - 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
1944 - Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
1944 - US regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1944 - US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy
1945 - Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees
1945 - US Communist Party forms
1946 - Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs
1947 - Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
1948 - Australia set 404 to win v England at Headingley
1948 - Bradman's 29th & last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404
1948 - Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt
1949 - 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies
1950 - Pres Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan
1952 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2)
1953 - 1st insulin isolated by F Banting & C Best in Toronto
1953 - North Korea & UN sign armistice
1953 - Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
1953 - Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, & Bill Klem & Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame
1954 - 36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller GC St Paul Minn
1954 - Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1955 - Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation
1955 - Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 231

1452 - Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Lombardy, Italian duke of Milan (1494-1508), (commissioned The Last Supper), (d. 1508)
1502 - Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer
1518 - Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury/builder of country houses
1609 - Heinrich Pape, composer
1612 - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40)/conquered Baghdad
1625 - Edward Montagu, England
1667 - Jean Bernoulli, mathematician
1733 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1734 - Jakob Zupan, composer
1740 - Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
1741 - Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer
1752 - Samuel Smith, American politician
1768 - Charlotte Corday d'Armont, murdered Jean-Paul Marat in bath
1773 - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
1777 - Thomas Campbell, poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic)
1781 - Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer
1784 - Andre-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer (chamber music)
1784 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1801 - George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal
Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza (1452) 1802 - Benedikt Randhartinger, composer
1812 - Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1820 - John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
1833 - Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
1835 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
1840 - Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1848 - Vladimir de Pachmann, painter
1848 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
1853 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1857 - Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator
1857 - Jose Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900
1870 - Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome)
1872 - Stanislav Binicki, composer
1877 - Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
1878 - Th to de Weeme, painter
1879 - Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza)
1879 - Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1880 - Donald Crisp, Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana)
1880 - Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo
Physicist and Nobel Laureate Hans Fischer (1881) 1881 - Hans Fischer, Munich Germany, physicist (Nobel 1930), (d. 1945)
1882 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1886 - Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
1890 - Judith Lowry, Ft Sill OK, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays ...)
1894 - Gerald F Bogan, US vice-admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
1896 - Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
1898 - Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]
1899 - Perc Hornibrook, Australian cricket left-arm bowler (20's)
1900 - Charles Vidor, Budapest Hungary, direct (Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl)
1900 - Hans Haug, composer
1903 - Clive Martin Douglas, composer
1903 - Nikolai Cherkasov, St Petersburg Russia, actor (Ivan the Terrible)
1903 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
1904 - Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987
1904 - Anton Dolin, [Patrick Healey-Kay], dancer (Girl From Petrovka)
1904 - Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist
1906 - Leo Durocher, Mass, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants)
1906 - Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist (d. 1999)
1906 - Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000)
1907 - Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee
1907 - Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge (Olympics 1932,36)
1908 - Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts (Labour)
1909 - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
1910 - Bea Marcia Anastasia verbrook Christoforides, writer
1910 - Julien Gracq, [Louis Poirier], French writer (Andre Breton)
1911 - Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, airman
1911 - Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981)
1912 - Hilde Domin, writer
1912 - Igor Markevitch, Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdu)
1912 - Vernon Elliott, musician/composer
1913 - Eva Jones, poet/novelist
1913 - Mary Green, headmistress (Kidbrooke School)
1913 - Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet (Diario d'Algeria)
1913 - George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (d. 2000)
1915 - Jack Iverson, Australian cricket mystery spinner (late 40's)
1916 - Asfa Wossen, Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi
1916 - Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player
1916 - Kennan Wynn, NYC, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor)
1916 - Siegfried Reda, composer
1917 - John Cunningham, executive director (British Aerospace)
1917 - Moses Rascoe, blues Singer
1917 - Robert Cowans, executive director (British Aerospace)
1917 - Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970)
1918 - Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer
1918 - Leonard Rose, Washington DC, concert cellist (NY Phil 1943-51)
1920 - Beatrice Pearson, Dennison Texas, actress (Moving Finger)
1920 - James Munn, commissioner (British University)
1921 - Émile Genest, Quebec actor (d. 2003)
1922 - Adolfo Celi, Sicily Italy, director (Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue)
1922 - Bob Thiele, record producer
1922 - Lillian Hayman, Balt Md, actress (Leslie Uggams Show)
1922 - Norman Lear, TV writer/producer (All in The Family)
1923 - Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder (d. 1994)
1924 - Otar Vasil'yevich Taktakishvili, composer
1924 - Vincent Canby, critic (NY Times)
1925 - Doc Pomus, rocker
1926 - Peter Coker, captain
1927 - Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
1928 - Sakari Mononen, composer
1928 - Karloff Lagarde, Mexican lucha libre wrestler (d. 2007)
1929 - Harvey Fuqua, rock vocalist (Moonglows-Sincerely)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

1365 - Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor
1927 - Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver
1981 - British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, proving to be a national event with massive viewer numbers
1986 - "Say Anything" director Cameron Crowe (29) weds "Heart" guitarist Nancy Wilson (32)
1991 - Rocker Jani Lane, (Warrant-Cherry Pie) marries model Bobbie Brown
2006 - NASCAR driver Kurt Busch (27) weds Eva Bryan in Eastville, Virginia

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 124

82 - St Joseph of Arimathea, dies
432 - Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32), dies
916 - Kliment/Clemens van Ohrid, Bulgaria bishop of Ohrid/saint, dies
1101 - Conrad II, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074)
1128 - Willem van Normandia, earl of Flanders, dies in battle
1214 - Eustaes van Machelen, Flemish knight, dies in battle
1214 - Stefan van Longchamp, French knight, dies in battle
1227 - Otto II van Lippe, bishop of Utrecht (1216-27), dies
1233 - Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders, dies at 45
1276 - King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
1365 - Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (b. 1339)
1498 - Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77
1638 - Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54
1656 - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
1675 - Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, gen (France), dies
1689 - John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies
1720 - Johann Samuel Welter, composer, dies at 69
1759 - Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, biologist/astronomer, dies at 60
1770 - Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
1777 - William Hayes, composer, dies at 69
1783 - Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62
1811 - Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed
1822 - Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60
1828 - Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies
1833 - Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26
1841 - Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist, dies
1844 - John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77
1863 - William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1864 - Margaret E Breckinridge, US nurse/daughter of VP John, dies
1881 - Johann Christian Lobe, composer, dies at 84
1883 - Albert Franz Doppler, composer, dies at 61
1883 - Montgomery Blair, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70
1916 - Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies
1917 - Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1841)
1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, composer, dies at 66
1924 - Ferruccio Benvenuto busoni, pianist/composer, dies
1924 - Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, composer, dies at 58
1931 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
1934 - Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79
1941 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
1942 - William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist, dies
1943 - Godfrey Cripps, cricketer (1st Currie Cup-winning captain), dies
1943 - H B G Austin, cricketer (capt of 1923 WI team to England), dies
1944 - Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer, dies at 68
1946 - Gertrude Stein, US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72
1948 - Francesco Spetrino, composer, dies at 91
1948 - Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (b. 1898)
1952 - Roland Pope, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies
1952 - W de Basil, [US Voskresenski], Russia, ballet dancer, dies
1956 - J M M Commaille, cricketer (12 Tests for South Africa 1910-28), dies
1958 - Claire Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
1961 - Theodore Chanler, composer, dies at 59
1962 - Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies
1962 - Richard Adlington, writer, dies at 70
1962 - James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
1965 - Henri Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901)
1968 - Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem J M A Asselbergs], literary, dies
1968 - Lillian Harvey, actress (Invitation to the Waltz), dies at 61
1968 - Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882)
1970 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), dies
1971 - Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83
1974 - Lightning Slim, blues singer (Nothing But the Devil), dies at 61
1976 - Ray Brennan, becomes 1st to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease"
1978 - Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer, dies at 72
1978 - [John] Willem van Otterloo, conductor/composer (Symphonic), dies at 70
1979 - Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52
1979 - Shirley Mason, actress (Let it Rain, Dark Skies), dies at 79
1980 - Pahlawi Mohammed Reza, shah of Persia (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60
1981 - Billy [William] Wyler, US director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies
1981 - Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song), dies at 64
1981 - William Wyler, US director (Ben Hur), dies
1982 - Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67
1982 - Vladimir Smirnov, Russian foil fencer (Olympic-gold-1980), dies at 28
1983 - Mufasir-ul-Haq, cricketer (Pakistani left-arm quick 1965), dies
1984 - James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75
1984 - Oswald Jacoby, US contract bridge champion, dies at 81
1985 - Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95
1986 - Leroy Holmes, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72
1987 - Travis Jackson, baseball player (NY Giants), dies at 83
1988 - Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11
1988 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
1990 - Bobby Day, rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58
1990 - Elizabeth Allan, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies
1990 - Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at 32
1990 - Nick Pippins, actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35
1990 - Bobby Day, American singer (b. 1928)
1991 - Carol Gillies, actress (Back Home, Baby Boom), dies at 50
1992 - Jenny Karezi, Greek actress (Red Lanterns), dies of cancer at 56
1992 - Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)
1993 - Reggie Lewis, NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27
1994 - H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies
1994 - Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96
1994 - Tatiana Tauer, harpist, dies at 48
1995 - Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher, dies at 56
1995 - Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter, dies at 72
1995 - Miklos Rozsa, Hung movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), dies at 88
1995 - Rick Ferrell, Hall of Fame catcher, dies at 89
1996 - Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85
1996 - Ivan V Lalic, poet, dies at 65
1996 - Jane Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85