July 27
Today is the 208th day of 2021, there are 157 days left in the year.
1694 - The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution.
1789 - Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the State Department.
1794 - French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and placed under arrest; he was executed the following day.
1861 - Union Gen. George B. McClellan was put in command of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.
1866 - After two failures, Cyrus W. Field succeeded in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.
1909 - During the first official test of the U.S. Army’s first airplane, Orville Wright flew himself and a passenger, Lt. Frank Lahm, above Fort Myer, Virginia, for one hour and 12 minutes.
1919 - Race-related rioting erupted in Chicago; the violence, which claimed the lives of 23 Blacks and 15 whites, lasted until Aug. 3.
1921 - Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeeded in isolating the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto.
1940 - Bugs Bunny made his debut in the cartoon A Wild Hare.
1953 - An armistice was signed ending the Korean War.
1960 - Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1967 - In the wake of urban rioting, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence; the same day Black militant H. Rap Brown told a press conference in Washington, D.C. that violence was "as American as cherry pie."
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Richard Nixon for obstructing justice in the Watergate case.
1980 - The deposed Shah of Iran died in Egypt at age 60.
1981 - Six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a department store in Hollywood, Florida, and was later murdered. (His father, John Walsh, became a well-known crime victims’ advocate.)
1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1996 - A pipe bomb exploded in an Atlanta park during the Olympic Games, killing one and injuring more than 100. (Anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph later pleaded guilty to the bombing, exonerating security guard Richard Jewell, who had been wrongly suspected.)
2003 - Comedian Bob Hope died at age 100.
2005 - Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who'd plotted to bomb the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium, was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
2015 - The Boy Scouts of America ended its blanket ban on gay adult leaders while allowing church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion for religious reasons.
2016 - More than a year after Freddie Gray, a Black man, suffered a broken neck in a Baltimore police van, the effort to hold six officers criminally responsible for his death collapsed when the city abruptly dropped all charges in the case.
2020 - The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study began with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.
Birthdays
27 - Winnie Harlow (model)
28 - Jordan Spieth (golfer)
31 - Indiana Evans (actress)
31 - Cheyenne Kimball (singer)
31 - Kriti Sanon (actress)
37 - Max Scherzer (baseball player)
37 - Taylor Schilling (actress)
38 - Blair Redford (actress)
38 - Heidi Gardner (actress/comedian)
41 - Dolph Ziggler (professional wrestler)
44 - Jonathan Rhys Meyers (actor)
44 - Martha Madison (actress)
45 - Seamus Dever (actor)
46 - Alex Rodriguez (baseball player)
47 - Pete Yorn (singer)
49 - Maya Rudolph (actress/comedian)
52 - Paul "Triple H" Levesque (professional wrestler)
53 - Julian McMahon (actor)
54 - Juliana Hatfield (singer)
64 - Bill Engvall (comedian)
67 - Roxanne Hart (actress)
73 - Peggy Fleming (figure skater)
74 - Betty Thomas (actress)
79 - John Pleshette (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 27
1918 - Brooklyn rookie Henry Heitman made his major league debut and his last major league appearance in the same day. He pitched four straight hits to the St. Louis Cardinals, left the game and never played again in the majors.
1921 - Baseball fan Reuben Berman sued the New York Giants, claiming he suffered mental and bodily distress after refusing to return a foul ball May 16th at the Polo Grounds. Berman was eventually rewarded $100.
1946 - Rudy York (Boston Red Sox) hit two grand slams and drove in 10 runs to lead the Red Sox over the St. Louis Browns, 13-6.
1983 - Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton as the third pitcher of the season to accumulate 3,500 career strikeouts.
1984 - Pete Rose passed Ty Cobb's record for most singles in a career with his 3,503rd base hit.
1986 - American Greg LeMond became the first non-European winner of the Tour de France.
1992 - Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis died after collapsing on a Brandeis University basketball court during practice. He was 27 years old.
1992 - China's Fu Mingxia, only two weeks away from her 14th birthday, became the second youngest gold medalist in Olympic history when she won the women's 10-meter platform diving event.
1996 - Canadian Donovan Bailey set a new world record in the men's 100 meter dash with a time of 9.84 seconds. The previous record was 9.85 held by Leroy Burrell of the United States.
1997 - The Detroit Tigers retire Han Newhouser's #16.
2001 - Deion Sanders announced his retirement from the NFL.
2003 - Lance Armstong won his fifth consecutive Tour de France, tying Miguel Indurain's record.
2011 - Ervin Santana pitched the first solo no-hitter for the Angels in nearly 27 years, striking out 10 and leading Los Angeles over Cleveland 3-1.
2012 - The Summer Olympic Games opened in London.
Today is the 208th day of 2021, there are 157 days left in the year.
1694 - The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution.
1789 - Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the State Department.
1794 - French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and placed under arrest; he was executed the following day.
1861 - Union Gen. George B. McClellan was put in command of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.
1866 - After two failures, Cyrus W. Field succeeded in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.
1909 - During the first official test of the U.S. Army’s first airplane, Orville Wright flew himself and a passenger, Lt. Frank Lahm, above Fort Myer, Virginia, for one hour and 12 minutes.
1919 - Race-related rioting erupted in Chicago; the violence, which claimed the lives of 23 Blacks and 15 whites, lasted until Aug. 3.
1921 - Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeeded in isolating the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto.
1940 - Bugs Bunny made his debut in the cartoon A Wild Hare.
1953 - An armistice was signed ending the Korean War.
1960 - Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1967 - In the wake of urban rioting, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence; the same day Black militant H. Rap Brown told a press conference in Washington, D.C. that violence was "as American as cherry pie."
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Richard Nixon for obstructing justice in the Watergate case.
1980 - The deposed Shah of Iran died in Egypt at age 60.
1981 - Six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a department store in Hollywood, Florida, and was later murdered. (His father, John Walsh, became a well-known crime victims’ advocate.)
1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1996 - A pipe bomb exploded in an Atlanta park during the Olympic Games, killing one and injuring more than 100. (Anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph later pleaded guilty to the bombing, exonerating security guard Richard Jewell, who had been wrongly suspected.)
2003 - Comedian Bob Hope died at age 100.
2005 - Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who'd plotted to bomb the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium, was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
2015 - The Boy Scouts of America ended its blanket ban on gay adult leaders while allowing church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion for religious reasons.
2016 - More than a year after Freddie Gray, a Black man, suffered a broken neck in a Baltimore police van, the effort to hold six officers criminally responsible for his death collapsed when the city abruptly dropped all charges in the case.
2020 - The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study began with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.
Birthdays
27 - Winnie Harlow (model)
28 - Jordan Spieth (golfer)
31 - Indiana Evans (actress)
31 - Cheyenne Kimball (singer)
31 - Kriti Sanon (actress)
37 - Max Scherzer (baseball player)
37 - Taylor Schilling (actress)
38 - Blair Redford (actress)
38 - Heidi Gardner (actress/comedian)
41 - Dolph Ziggler (professional wrestler)
44 - Jonathan Rhys Meyers (actor)
44 - Martha Madison (actress)
45 - Seamus Dever (actor)
46 - Alex Rodriguez (baseball player)
47 - Pete Yorn (singer)
49 - Maya Rudolph (actress/comedian)
52 - Paul "Triple H" Levesque (professional wrestler)
53 - Julian McMahon (actor)
54 - Juliana Hatfield (singer)
64 - Bill Engvall (comedian)
67 - Roxanne Hart (actress)
73 - Peggy Fleming (figure skater)
74 - Betty Thomas (actress)
79 - John Pleshette (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 27
1918 - Brooklyn rookie Henry Heitman made his major league debut and his last major league appearance in the same day. He pitched four straight hits to the St. Louis Cardinals, left the game and never played again in the majors.
1921 - Baseball fan Reuben Berman sued the New York Giants, claiming he suffered mental and bodily distress after refusing to return a foul ball May 16th at the Polo Grounds. Berman was eventually rewarded $100.
1946 - Rudy York (Boston Red Sox) hit two grand slams and drove in 10 runs to lead the Red Sox over the St. Louis Browns, 13-6.
1983 - Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton as the third pitcher of the season to accumulate 3,500 career strikeouts.
1984 - Pete Rose passed Ty Cobb's record for most singles in a career with his 3,503rd base hit.
1986 - American Greg LeMond became the first non-European winner of the Tour de France.
1992 - Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis died after collapsing on a Brandeis University basketball court during practice. He was 27 years old.
1992 - China's Fu Mingxia, only two weeks away from her 14th birthday, became the second youngest gold medalist in Olympic history when she won the women's 10-meter platform diving event.
1996 - Canadian Donovan Bailey set a new world record in the men's 100 meter dash with a time of 9.84 seconds. The previous record was 9.85 held by Leroy Burrell of the United States.
1997 - The Detroit Tigers retire Han Newhouser's #16.
2001 - Deion Sanders announced his retirement from the NFL.
2003 - Lance Armstong won his fifth consecutive Tour de France, tying Miguel Indurain's record.
2011 - Ervin Santana pitched the first solo no-hitter for the Angels in nearly 27 years, striking out 10 and leading Los Angeles over Cleveland 3-1.
2012 - The Summer Olympic Games opened in London.
