Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
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A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
July 27
| 1214 | At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeats John of England. | |
| 1245 | Frederick II is deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege. | |
| 1586 | Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia. | |
| 1663 | British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports. | |
| 1689 | Government forces defeat the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie. | |
| 1777 | The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British. | |
| 1778 | British and French fleets fight to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant. | |
| 1793 | Robespierre becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety. | |
| 1861 | President Abraham Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac. | |
| 1909 | Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds. | |
| 1914 | British troops invade the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and begin to disarm Irish rebels. | |
| 1921 | Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto. | |
| 1944 | U.S. troops complete the liberation of Guam. | |
| 1953 | Representatives of the United Nations, Korea and China sign an armistice at Panmunjon, Korea. | |
| 1964 | President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam. | |
| 1993 | Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas. | |
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Born on July 27 |
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| 1768 | Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary, assassin of Jean Paul Marat. | |
| 1777 | Thomas Campbell, Scottish writer (The Pleasures of Hope). | |
| 1870 | Hilaire Belloc, French writer (Cautionary Tales). | |
| 1906 | Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager. | |
| 1908 | Joseph Mitchell, writer for The New Yorker. | |
| 1930 | David Hughes, English novelist (The Horsehair Sofa, The Man Who Invented Tomorrow). | |
| 1939 | Michael Longley, Irish poet. | |
| 1940 | Bharati Mukherjee, Indian novelist (The Middleman and Other Stories). | |
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