TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: 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 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.
1775 Benjamin Rush began his service as the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army.
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
1804 The 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. With the amendment Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac.
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
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’s official debut
1953 An armistice was signed ending the Korean War.
1965 In the U.S., the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act was signed into law. The law required health warnings on all cigarette packages.
1974 The House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Richard Nixon for obstructing justice in the Watergate case.
1980 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran dies in Cairo, Egypt.
1985 Coup in Uganda – Tito Lutwa Okello, an Ugandan military officer successfully staged a coup against president Milton Obote.
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.
1996 A pipe bomb exploded in an Atlanta park during the Olympic Games.
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, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
