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Today in History ~ July 27
Barbosa Day in Puerto Rico
Events1501 - Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1643 - Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough
1689 - Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie
1694 - Bank of England is chartered.
1789 - Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the Department of State.
1794 - French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and placed under arrest; he was executed the following day. [H]
1816 - US troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1830 - A second Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X
1836 - Adelaide South Australia founded.
1839 - Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England
1861 - Battle of Mathias Point, VA - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing
1861 - Union Gen George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
1864 - Battle of Darbytown VA (Deep Bottom Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)
1866, Cyrus W. Field finally succeeded, after two failures, in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.(1,686 miles long)
1880 - A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
1888 - Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
1909 - Orville Wright set a record for the longest airplane flight by testing the Army's first airplane and kept aloft for 1 hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds over Fort Myer, Virginia
1919 - Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed 500 injured)
1920 - Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
1921 - Frederick Banting & Charles Best isolates insulin at U of Toronto for treatment of fatal disease, diabetes
1931 - Grasshoppers in Iowa Nebraska & South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1940 - Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
1940 - The animated cartoon "A Wild Hare," which was Bugs Bunny's official debut for Warner Brothers, premiered.
1941 - German army enters Ukraine
1941 - Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1943 - 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
1944 - Soviet Army liberates Majdanek concentration camp
1945 - US Communist Party forms
1947 - Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
1948 - Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-Nazi camp at Darmstadt
1949 - 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies
1953 - The Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom ending three years of bloody fighting.
1953 - Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
1954 - Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1955 - Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation.
1960 - Vice President Richard Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican national convention in Chicago.
1962 - Mariner 2 launched to venus; flyby mission.
1962 - Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia
1965 - Pres Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
1968 - Race Riot in Gary Indiana
1969 - Pioneer 10 Launched.
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend President Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had engaged in a course of conduct designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
1976 - Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair)
1976 - Air Force veteran Ray Brennan became the first person to die of what came to be known as Legionnaire's Disease following an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
1977 - John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US
1980 - On day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60.
1982 - Menken & Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in NYC
1987 - John Demjanjuk accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel
1990 - White Russia declares independence
1990 - Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
1990 - Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer vetoed a tough abortion bill passed by the state Legislature.
1991 - Fighting escalated in the breakaway republic of Croatia, as a Yugoslav air force jet fired on Croatian forces and ground fighting erupted into clashes with federal tanks and troops.
1993 - Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City 5 killed
1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington by President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
1996 - American Gail Devers won the women's 100-meter dash.
1996 - Terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park, killing one person and injuring more than 100. [H]
1999 - In an overwhelming defeat for major league umpires, their threatened walkout collapsed when all the umpires withdrew their resignations. However, about one-third of them ended up losing their jobs anyway.
2000 - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic called presidential, parliamentary and local elections for the following September. (The election would result in Milosevic's fall from power.)
2003 - Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France, an international 2,036-mile cycling race, for the fifth consecutive year.
Birthdays Today
1452 - Ludovico Sforza [ il Sforza del Destino) Italian duke of Milan (1494-1500)
1768 - Charlotte Corday, assassin of Jean-Paul Marat.
1781 - Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer
1801 - George Biddle Airyy, seventh Astronomer Royal
1824 - Alexandre Dumas fils, French playwright novelist.
1835 - Giosu Carducci, Italian poet (Nobel 1906).
1857 - Jose Celso Barbosa. The Black physician and political hero of Puerto Rico
1867 - Enrique Granados, Lerida Spain, composer (Maria del Carmen)
1870 - Hilaire Belloc, English author.
1877 - Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungary, composer (Msg to Posterity)
1880 - Joe Tinker (Baseball Hall of Famer: Chicago Cubs shortstop; playing manager: Cincinnati & Chicago; famous for Tinker- to-Evers-to-Chance double play combination)
1906 - Leo 'The Lip' Durocher (baseball: player, manager: Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros; coach: LA Dodgers; "Nice guys finish last.")
1909 - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
1916 - Keenan (Francis) Wynn (actor: Dr. Strangelove, Nashville, Finian's Rainbow, Kiss Me Kate, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Absent-Minded Professor)
1918 - Homer (Henry D. Haynes) (comedy singer: group: Homer and Jethro: Baby, It's Cold Outside [w/June Carter (Cash)], That Hound Dog in the Winder, Hernando's Hideaway, The Battle of Kookamonga, I Want to Hold Your Hand)
1918 - Leonard Rose, concert cellist.
1922 - Norman Lear (Emmy Award-winning producer: All in the Family [1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73], Maude, Good Times, Sanford & Son, Powers that Be, The Nancy Walker Show, The Jeffersons, Hot L Baltimore, Fernwood 2-Night)
1927 - Bob Morse (singer: group: The Hi-Lo's)
1929 - Jack Higgins, [Harry Patterson], novelist
1931 - Jerry Van Dyke (actor: Coach, My Mother the Car, The Judy Garland Show, The Headmaster, Accidental Family; brother of Dick Van Dyke)
1933 - Nick Reynolds (folk singer: group: The Kingston Trio: Tom Dooley, M.T.A., Tijuana Jail, A Worried Man, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Greenback Dollar, Reverend Mr. Black)
1937 - Don Galloway (actor: Two Moon Junction, Demon Rage, Snowblind, Tom, Dick and Mary, Ironside, Arrest and Trial; TV host: The Guinness Game)
1938 - Shirley Ann Field, in England
1942 - Barbara Ferris, in London England
1942 - Dennis Ralston (tennis)
1944 - Bobbie Gentry (Grammy Award-winning singer [1967]: Ode to Billy Joe, All I Have to Do is Dream [w/Glen Campbell], I'll Never Fall in Love Again) What did Billi-Jo throw off the bridge ?
1948 - Betty Thomas (Emmy Award-winning director: For Peter's Sake [1992-93], actress: Hill Street Blues [1984-85], The Seventh Sign, When Your Lover Leaves, Troop Beverly Hills)
1948 - Peggy Fleming (Olympic Hall of Famer: gold medalist: figure skater [1968]; Ice Follies, Holiday on Ice, ABC sports commentator; International Women's Sports Hall of Famer)
1949 - Andre Dupont (hockey: Philadelphia Flyers)
1949 - Maureen McGovern (singer: Different Worlds, The Morning After; actress: Pirates of Penzance) in Youngstown Ohio 1950 - Michael Vaughn (musician: guitarist: group: Paperlace: The Night Chicago Died)
1951 - Al Simpson football
1952 - Bump Wills (baseball)
Famous deaths
0082 - Joseph of Arimathea, dies & is buried in tomb he once lent to Jesus
1828 - Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies
1833 - Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26
1841 - Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist
1863 - William Lowndes Yancey one of the South's strongest voices of states' rights. [H]
1883 - Albert Franz Doppler, composer, dies at 61
1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck (The Original), composer (Hansel und Gretel), dies at 66
1924 - Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, composer, dies at 58
1946 - Gertrude Stein, US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72
1970 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68),
1980 - Pahlawi Mohammed Reza, shah of Persia (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60
1984 - James Mason, British actor (Lolita/Rommel), dies of a heart attack at 75
1995 - Miklos Rozsa, movie composer, dies at 88
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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