On this day in History - Jul 27

1061 - Pope Nicholas II dies (or July 19)
1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England.
1276 - James I of Aragon dies (b. 1208)
1365 - Rudolf IV of Austria dies
1452 - Ludovico Sforza, was born (d. 1508). Duke of Milan.
1564 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor dies
1663 - The British 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.
1667 - Johann Bernoulli, was born (d. 1748). Swiss mathematician
1675 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, dies (b.1611). Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France.
1689 - Glorious Revolution: Battle of Killiecrankie ends
1694 - A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
1759 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, dies (b. 1698). French mathematician.
1768 - Charlotte Corday, was born (d. 1793). French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat
1777 - Thomas Campbell is born in Glasgow. British poet. After Napoleon sentences the German publisher Johann Palm to death for printing subversive pamphlets, Campbell will give this toast at an authors' dinner: "To Napoleon"--murmurs of protest--"But, gentlemen, he once shot a publisher!"
1778 - American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant - British and French fleets fight to a standoff. 1781 - Mauro Giuliani, was born (b. 1828). Italian composer.
1789 - The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (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." (See 9 Thermidor.)
1809 - O exército anglo-espanhol, comandado pelo general Wellesley, futuro duque de Wellington, e do general Cuesta, capitão-general da Extremadura espanhola, derrotam o exército francês comandado pelo marechal Victor.
1824 - Alexandre Dumas fils, was born (d. 1895). French author (La Dame aux Camelias)

1833 - Thomas George Bonney, was born (d. 1923). Geologist.
1835 - Giosue Carducci, was born (d. 1907). Italian writer.
1841 - Mikhail Lermontov, dies (b. 1814). Russian author.
1844 - John Dalton, dies. English chemist
1844 - Guilbert de Pixerecourt dies in Nancy, prolific French dramatist dies.
1857 - José Celso Barbosa, was born (d. 1921). Puerto Rican political leader.
1857 - Augusta Stowe-Gullen, was born. Canadian physician and feminist
1861 - Cyrus H. Nusbaum, an American Methodist clergyman who penned the hymn,'Would You Live for Jesus, and Be Always Pure and Good?'
1863 - William Lowndes Yancey, dies. American Confederate leader
1865 - Welsh settlers arrive in Argentina at Chubut Valley.
1866 - The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time.

1866 - Nascimento de António José de Almeida. Presidente da República Portuguesa, eleito em 06 Ago 1919.
1867 - Enrique Granados, was born (d. 1916). Spanish composer.
1870 - Hilaire Belloc, was born (d. 16 Jul 1953). French-born English historian and novelist.
1877 - Ernst von Dohnanyi, was born. Hungarian composer and conductor
1880 - Donald Crisp was born. Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana)
1880 - Joseph Tinker was born. Baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo
1881 - Hans Fischer, was born (d. 1945). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1882 - Geoffrey de Havilland, was born (d. 1965). British aircraft designer.
1886 - Ernst May, was born (d. 1970). Architect.
1890 - Vincent William Van Gogh, com 37 anos, atira em seu próprio peito. Dois dias depois morrerá deixando cerca de 800 pinturas e uma centena de desenhos.

1900 - Charles Vidor was born (d. 4 Jun 1959). Hungarian-born motion-picture director
1901 - Rudy Vallee, was born (d. 1985). Singer.
1903 - Nikolai Cherkasov, was born (d. 1966). Actor.
1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, was born (d. 1991). Writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1905 - Leo Durocher, was born (d. 7 Oct 1991). Baseball Hall of Famer .
1908 - Joseph Mitchell, was born. American writer
1912 - Hilde Domin, was born. Writer.
1912 - Nasce Igor Markevitch, músico russo.
1913 - Vittorio Sereni was born. Italian poet, author, editor, and translator known for his lyric verse and translations into Italian of works by Pierre Corneille, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Valery, Rene Char, Albert Camus, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams
1915 - Mario Del Monaco, was born (d. 1982). Tenor.
1916 - Elizabeth Hardwick,was born. Novelist
1916 - Keenan Wynn, was born (d. 1986). Actor.
1917 - Bourvil, was born (d. 1970). Actor.
1917- Emil Theodor Kocher, dies (b. 1841). Surgeon and biologist.
1918 - Leonard Rose, was born (d. 1984). American cellist.
1921 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
1922 - Norman Lear, was born. Emmy Award-winning producer : All in the Family [1970-1971, 1971-1972, 1972-1973], Maude, Good Times, Sanford & Son, Powers that Be, The Nancy Walker Show, The Jeffersons, Hot L Baltimore, Fernwood 2-Night
1924 - Vincent Canby, was born (d. 2000I). Film critic.
1924 - Ferruccio Busoni, dies (b. 1866). Italian pianist and composer.

1926 -Frank O'Hara was born (d. 25 Jul 1966). American poet and art critic
1928 - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July.
1929 - Nasce Jean Baudrillard, sociólogo e escritor francês.
1931 - Jerry Van Dyke, was born. Actor
1938 - Isabelle Aubret, was born. French singer
1938 - Gary Gygax, was born. Creator of DnD
1939 - Nasce Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, escritor e articulista espanhol.
1940 - Pina Bausch, was born. German dancer, choreographer and ballet director.
1940 - Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare.
1941 - Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.
1946 - Gertrude Stein, dies (b. 1874). American writer and cult figure.
1946 - Susan Glaspell dies in the town of Provincetown. Co-founder of the influential Provincetown Players .

1947 - The World Water Ski Organization was founded in Geneva, Switzerland.
1948 - Peggy Fleming, was born. Figure skater
1949 - Maureen McGovern, was born. Singer and actress
1949 - Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.

1952 - Roxanne Hart was born. Actress
1953 - Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea sign an armistice agreement at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting
1954 - Peter L. Allen, was born. Actor and musician
1955 - The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends (started on May 9, 1945).
1957 - Bill Engvall, was born. Comedian
1958 - Claire Chennault, dies. French World War II pilot
1964 - Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.

1965 - Nascimento de José Luis Félix Chilavert . Jogador de futebol (guarda-redes) paraguaio

1967 - Juliana Hatfield, was born. Musician
1967 - Kellie Waymire, was born (d. 2003). Actress.
1968 - Cliff Curtis, was born. New Zealand actor
1968 - Pink Floyd releases the album A Saucerful of Secrets in the USA.

1968 - Jorge Salinas was born. Mexican actor.
1969 - Maria Grazia Cucinotta, was born. Italian actress The World Is Not Enough, Maria Maddalena, Picking Up the Pieces, Just One Night
1969 - Triple H, was born. Professional wrestler.
1970 - Morre António de Oliveira Salazar (n. 1889). Estadista português.
1972 - Jill Arrington, was born. Sports reporter
1974 - Eason Chan, was born. Hong Kong pop singer
1974 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: obstruction of justice.
1975 - Shea Hillenbrand, was born. Baseball player
1975 - Alex Rodriguez, was born. Baseball player
1977 - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, was born. Actor
1979 - Shannon Moore, was born. Professional wrestler
1980 - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, dies. Shah of Iran
1981 - William Wyler, dies. Film director
1981 - British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event, with massive viewer numbers earned for the show.
1984 - James Mason, dies. English actor.
1984 - Morre George Gallup, suíço, fundador do Instituto Gallup.
1985 - O general Olara Okello derruba Milton Obote e assume a Presidência da Uganda.

1988 - Uma nova Constituição é aprovada no Brasil com grandes inovações.
1993 - Reggie Lewis, dies. Basketball star
1995 - In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
1996 - Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, killing one and injuring 111.
1997 - Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.

1997 - Jan Ullrich, 23 year old is the first German to win the Tour de France.
1999 - 21 die in a canyoning disaster near Interlaken, Switzerland.

1999 - Morre Harry Sweets Edison, trompetista norte-americano.
1999 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, dies (b. 1912). Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer.

2001 -A judge in West Palm Beach, Fla., sentenced 14-year-old Nathaniel Brazill to 28 years in prison for fatally shooting teacher Barry Grunow.
2001 - Leon Wilkeson, dies. American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
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.
2003 - Vance Hartke, dies. U.S. Senator from Indiana.
2003 - Bob Hope, dies. English-born entertainer.

2004 - Jürgen Klinsmann é anunciado como o novo técnico da seleção alemã de futebol
Cuba- Revolution Day, 2nd Day
Maldives - Independence Day, 2nd Day
Vietnam - Memorial Day for War Martyrs
Ancient Latvia - Septinu Guletaju Diena held