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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
The British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.

1689
The Scottish Jacobites experience a victory over government-supporting clans 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.

1905
The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago.


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 Panmunjom, Korea.

1964
President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.

1980
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran dies in Cairo, Egypt.

1981
William Wyler, director of Ben Hur, dies.

1993
Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas.

2002
The largest air show disaster in history occurs when a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine, killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others.

Today in History: Born on July 27
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).

JOTD
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