TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JULY 27
1245 Frederick II is deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege.
1586 Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco 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.
1777 The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British.
1789 US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department
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.
1914 British troops invade the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and begin to disarm Irish rebels.
1919 Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
1921 Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto.
1940 Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Bob Givens (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in “Wild Hare”
1953 An armistice was signed ending the Korean War.
1955 Austrian State Treaty came to force. The treaty re-established Austria as a democratic and sovereign country after World War II. It also ended the allied occupation of the country.
1964 President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.
1967 U.S. President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence in the wake of urban rioting.
1974 The House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Richard Nixon for obstructing justice in the Watergate case.
1985 Coup in Uganda. Tito Lutwa Okello, an Ugandan military officer successfully staged a coup against president Milton Obote. He was ousted by current president Yoweri Museveni 6 months later.
1993 Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas.
1995 The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, by U.S. President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
1996 A pipe bomb exploded in an Atlanta park during the Olympic Games.
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.
2003 It was reported by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corp.) that there was no monster in Loch Ness. The investigation used 600 separate sonar beams and satellite navigation technology to trawl the loch. Reports of sightings of the “Loch Ness Monster” began in the 6th century.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
