27 Jul 0432
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St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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27 Jul 1214
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1st battle of Bouvines - King Philips II vs. Emperor Otto IV
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27 Jul 1230
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Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II and Pope Gregory IX
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27 Jul 1280
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Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China
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27 Jul 1298
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Albert I, Son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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27 Jul 1298
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Roman Catholics German King Albrecht I von Habsburg installed
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27 Jul 1360
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Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland
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27 Jul 1365
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Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor
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27 Jul 1501
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Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
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27 Jul 1563
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French army recaptures Le Havre
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27 Jul 1586
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Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
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27 Jul 1641
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Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep
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27 Jul 1643
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Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough
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27 Jul 1655
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Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
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27 Jul 1655
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Netherlands and Brandenburg sign military treaty
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27 Jul 1661
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Parliament confirms the Navigation Act
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27 Jul 1663
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English parliament accepts Staple Act
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27 Jul 1689
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Battle of Killicrankie, Viscount Dundee defeats Whig General MacKay
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27 Jul 1689
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Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie
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27 Jul 1694
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Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament
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27 Jul 1694
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Bank of England chartered
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27 Jul 1713
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Russia and Turkey sign peace treaty
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27 Jul 1714
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English Queen Anne fires Premier Robert Haley
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27 Jul 1789
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Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs (State Department)
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27 Jul 1794
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Coup of thermidor / fall of Robespierre in Paris
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27 Jul 1795
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Spain and France sign peace treaty
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27 Jul 1809
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Battle at Talavera: British / Spanish army vs. French army
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27 Jul 1816
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US troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
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27 Jul 1816
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Fort Blount on Apalachicola Bay Fla, attacked by US Troops
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27 Jul 1830
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Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X
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27 Jul 1836
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Adelaide, South Australia founded
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27 Jul 1837
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US Mint opens in Charlotte, North Carolina
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27 Jul 1837
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US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
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27 Jul 1839
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Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England
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27 Jul 1844
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Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, North Carolina
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27 Jul 1844
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Fire destroys the US mint at Charlotte, NC
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27 Jul 1861
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Battle of Mathias Point, VA - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing
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27 Jul 1861
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Battle of St. Augustine Springs, NM Terr
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27 Jul 1861
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Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico
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27 Jul 1861
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Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
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27 Jul 1861
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Union Gen George McClellan took command of Potamic Army
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27 Jul 1862
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Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die
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27 Jul 1862
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Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico
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27 Jul 1864
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Battle of Darbytown, VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)
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27 Jul 1866
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Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
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27 Jul 1879
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C H F Peters discovers asteroid #200 Dynamene
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27 Jul 1880
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A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
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27 Jul 1880
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Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson was wounded, breaks out
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27 Jul 1888
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Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
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27 Jul 1891
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Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as gov of Suriname
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27 Jul 1897
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14.75" (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record)
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27 Jul 1897
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Dutch government of Pierson / Goeman Borgesius resigns
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27 Jul 1898
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Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men" (BG)
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27 Jul 1898
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Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Dancing Men" (BG)
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27 Jul 1905
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J Palisa discovers asteroid #569 Misa
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27 Jul 1908
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A Kopff discovers asteroid #668 Dora
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27 Jul 1909
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Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
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27 Jul 1913
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Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France
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27 Jul 1914
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Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
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27 Jul 1918
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Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, New York
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27 Jul 1919
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Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
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27 Jul 1920
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Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
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27 Jul 1920
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Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
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27 Jul 1921
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2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
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27 Jul 1921
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Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolates insulin at University of Toronto
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27 Jul 1922
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International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
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27 Jul 1924
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8th Olympic games closes in Paris
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27 Jul 1927
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Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver
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27 Jul 1927
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Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)
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27 Jul 1928
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AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms
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27 Jul 1929
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Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
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27 Jul 1931
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Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr and SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops
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27 Jul 1933
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G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1312 Vassar
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27 Jul 1933
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K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1284 Latvia
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27 Jul 1935
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Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh, kills 200,000
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27 Jul 1937
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32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
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27 Jul 1940
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Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"
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27 Jul 1940
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Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
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27 Jul 1941
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German army enters Ukraine
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27 Jul 1941
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Japanese forces land in Indo-China
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27 Jul 1943
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772 British bombers attack Hamburg
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27 Jul 1944
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Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
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27 Jul 1944
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US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman / Hill 183 Normandy
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27 Jul 1944
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1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
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27 Jul 1944
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US regains possession of Guam from Japanese
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27 Jul 1945
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Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from New York Yankees
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27 Jul 1945
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US Communist Party forms
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27 Jul 1946
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Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs
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27 Jul 1946
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Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game
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27 Jul 1947
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Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
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27 Jul 1948
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Australia set 404 to win vs. England at Headingley
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27 Jul 1948
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Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-Nazi camp at Darmstadt
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27 Jul 1949
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1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies
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27 Jul 1949
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Havilland Comet 40-passenger airliner makes maiden flight
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27 Jul 1950
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President Truman promises aid to Taiwan
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27 Jul 1952
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Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2)
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27 Jul 1953
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1st insulin isolated by F Banting and C Best in Toronto
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27 Jul 1953
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Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, and Bill Klem and Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame
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27 Jul 1953
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North Korea and UN sign armistice
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27 Jul 1953
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Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
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27 Jul 1953
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Armistice signed ending Korean War
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27 Jul 1954
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36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller Golf Club - St. Paul, Minnesota
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27 Jul 1954
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Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
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27 Jul 1955
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Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die)
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27 Jul 1955
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Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
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27 Jul 1955
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Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation
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27 Jul 1955
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Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1751 Herget
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27 Jul 1958
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Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open
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27 Jul 1959
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Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India vs. England on debut
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27 Jul 1959
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William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
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27 Jul 1960
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VP Nixon nominated for President at Republican Convention in Chicago
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27 Jul 1962
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Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
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27 Jul 1962
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Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia
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27 Jul 1963
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Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
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27 Jul 1963
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General Amin al-Hafez becomes President of Syria
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27 Jul 1965
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Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government
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27 Jul 1965
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President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
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27 Jul 1967
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Arabs Federation Premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns
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27 Jul 1967
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Helmond Sport soccer team forms
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27 Jul 1967
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LBJ sets up commission to study cause of urban violence
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27 Jul 1968
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Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open
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27 Jul 1968
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Race Riot in Gary Indiana
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27 Jul 1969
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15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
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27 Jul 1969
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Pioneer 10 launched
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27 Jul 1970
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Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
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27 Jul 1970
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L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame
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27 Jul 1972
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NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques
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27 Jul 1973
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40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103)
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27 Jul 1973
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Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners
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27 Jul 1974
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Kanhai and Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire vs. Gloucs
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27 Jul 1974
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House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
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27 Jul 1975
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Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic
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27 Jul 1976
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Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair)
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27 Jul 1976
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8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese
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27 Jul 1977
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John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US
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27 Jul 1978
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Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs. Yanks)
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27 Jul 1978
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Portuguese President Eanes fires Premier Soares
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27 Jul 1980
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Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
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27 Jul 1980
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Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
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27 Jul 1982
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Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1st visit to US in almost 11 years
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27 Jul 1983
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Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal
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27 Jul 1986
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14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
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27 Jul 1986
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24th Tennis Federation Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia 3-0 in Prague
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27 Jul 1986
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Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France
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27 Jul 1987
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John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel
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27 Jul 1987
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Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive
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27 Jul 1988
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General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma
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27 Jul 1988
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Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3
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27 Jul 1988
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Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
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27 Jul 1988
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Radio Shack announces the Tandy 1000 SL computer
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27 Jul 1989
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Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
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27 Jul 1990
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White-Russia declares independence
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27 Jul 1990
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Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
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27 Jul 1991
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Rocker Jani Lane, (Warrant-Cherry Pie) marries model Bobbie Brown
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27 Jul 1991
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TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition
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27 Jul 1992
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Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Republican National Convention
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27 Jul 1992
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Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch and Evgueni
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27 Jul 1992
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Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95)
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27 Jul 1993
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Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees
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27 Jul 1993
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Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
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27 Jul 1993
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Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome / Milan / Vatican City, 5 killed
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27 Jul 1993
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NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
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27 Jul 1993
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New York Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
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27 Jul 1996
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Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
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27 Jul 1997
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"Candide, " closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances
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27 Jul 1997
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event
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"Victor / Victoria" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 738 performances
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27 Jul 1997
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event
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Franklin Quest Senior Golf Championship
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27 Jul 1997
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event
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Stewart Cink wins golfs Greater Hartford Open (267)
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27 Jul 1997
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Tammie Green wins Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
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