SomeFacts | July 27

On this day - July 27

1054 — Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats ...

1189 — Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian ...

1202 — Georgian–Seljuk wars: At the Battle of Basian the Kingdom of ...

1214 — Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats ...

1299 — According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of ...

1302 — Battle of Bapheus: Decisive Ottoman victory over the ...

1549 — The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.

1663 — The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act ...

1689 — Glorious Revolution: The Battle of Killiecrankie is a victory ...

1694 — A Royal charter is granted to the Bank of England.

1714 — The Great Northern War: The first significant victory of the ...

1775 — Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second ...

1778 — American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and ...

1789 — The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of ...

1794 — French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after ...

1816 — Seminole Wars: The Battle of Negro Fort ends when a hot shot ...

1857 — Indian Rebellion: Sixty-eight men hold out for eight days ...

1865 — Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.

1866 — The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is ...

1880 — Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand: Afghan forces led ...

1890 — Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.

1900 — Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; ...

1917 — World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of ...

1919 — The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred ...

1921 — Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist ...

1929 — The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of ...

1940 — The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the ...

1942 — World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis ...

1947 — In Vatican City, Rome, canonization of Catherine Labouré, the ...

1949 — Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first ...

1953 — Korean War: Cessation of hostilities is achieved when the ...

1955 — El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after ...

1955 — The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.

1959 — The Continental League is announced as baseball's ...

1963 — The Puijo observation tower is opened to the general public at ...

1964 — Vietnam War: Five thousand more American military advisers are ...

1974 — Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary ...

1975 — Mayor of Jaffna and former MP Alfred Duraiappah is shot dead.

1981 — While landing at Chihuahua International Airport, Aeromexico ...

1983 — Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada ...

1989 — While attempting to land at Tripoli International Airport in ...

1990 — The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'état in Trinidad ...

1990 — The Byelorussian Soviet Republic declares independence from ...

1995 — The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, ...

1996 — In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial ...

1997 — About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in ...

2002 — Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes ...

2005 — After an incident during STS-114, NASA grounds the Space ...

2015 — At least seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen ...