1909<\/strong> – Orville Wright set a record for the longest airplane flight. He was testing the first Army airplane and kept it in the air for 1 hour 12 minutes and 40 seconds.<\/p>\n 1914<\/strong> – British troops invaded the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and began to disarm Irish rebels.<\/p>\n 1918<\/strong> – The Socony 200 was launched. It was the first concrete barge and was used to carry oil.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – Canadian biochemist Frederick Banting and associates announced the discovery of the hormone insulin.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – Bugs Bunny made his official debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon “A Wild Hare.”<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – U.S. troops completed the liberation of Guam.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – The World Water Ski Organization was founded in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – The armistice agreement that ended the Korean War was signed at Panmunjon, Korea.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – The Allied occupation of Austria ended.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson sent an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – In the U.S., the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act was signed into law. The law required health warnings on all cigarette packages.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – U.S. President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence in the wake of urban rioting.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – NBC-TV took “Dinah’s Place” off of its daytime programming roster.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress asked for impeachment procedures against President Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – The deposed Shah of Iran, Muhammad Riza Pahlavi, died in a hospital near Cairo, Egypt.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Pete Rose passed Ty Cobb\u2019s record for most singles in a career when he got his 3,503rd base hit.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis died after collapsing on a Brandeis University basketball court during practice. He was 27 years old.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – IBM’s new chairman, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., announced an $8.9 billion plan to cut the company’s costs.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, by U.S. President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – The U.S. space shuttle Discovery completed a five-day mission commanded by Air Force Col. Eileen Collins. It was the first shuttle mission to be commanded by a woman.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX. The event set two new world records, one for the 3-mile long ribbon and one for the 2,000 people that cut it.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong> – Intel Corp introduced its Core 2 Duo microprocessors.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> \u2013 At least seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen attack an Indian police station in Punjab.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> \u2013 At a news conference in Florida, U.S. Presidential Candidate Donald Trump publicly appealed to Russia to find and release private emails from Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton; a Special Counsel investigation (2017\u20132019) later alleged that Russian operatives began hacking into servers at the Democratic National Committee on that same day, leading to the July 13, 2018 indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> \u2013 Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player History of 27 July 1909 – Orville Wright set a record for the longest airplane flight. He was testing the first Army airplane and kept it in the air for 1 hour 12 minutes and 40 seconds. 1914 – British troops invaded the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and began to disarm Irish rebels. 1918 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[815,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-11163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-27-july","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-2U3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14229,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions\/14229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n1981<\/strong> \u2013 Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer
\n1981<\/strong> \u2013 Dash Snow, American painter, and photographer (d. 2009)
\n1981<\/strong> \u2013 Christopher Weselek, German rugby player
\n1982<\/strong> \u2013 Neil Harbisson, English-Catalan painter, composer, and activist
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Lorik Cana, Albanian footballer
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Martijn Maaskant, Dutch cyclist
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Soccor Velho, Indian footballer (d. 2013)
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Antoine Bethea, American football player
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Japanese baseball player
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Max Scherzer, American baseball player
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Taylor Schilling, American actress
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Kenny Wormald, American actor, dancer, and choreographer
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Husain Abdullah, American football player
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Matteo Pratichetti, Italian rugby player
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Ajmal Shahzad, English cricketer
\n1986<\/strong> \u2013 DeMarre Carroll, American basketball player
\n1986<\/strong> \u2013 Ryan Flaherty, American baseball player
\n1986<\/strong> \u2013 Ryan Griffen, Australian footballer
\n1987<\/strong> \u2013 Jacoby Ford, American football player
\n1987<\/strong> \u2013 Marek Ham\u0161\u00edk, Slovak footballer
\n1987<\/strong> \u2013 Jordan Hill, American basketball player
\n1987<\/strong> \u2013 Sarah Parsons, American ice hockey player
\n1988<\/strong> \u2013 Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
\n1988<\/strong> \u2013 Yoervis Medina, Venezuelan baseball player
\n1988<\/strong> \u2013 Ryan Tannehill, American football player
\n1989<\/strong> \u2013 Maya Ali, Pakistani actress
\n1990<\/strong> \u2013 Nick Hogan, American race car driver, and actor
\n1990<\/strong> \u2013 Paolo Hurtado, Peruvian footballer
\n1990<\/strong> \u2013 Cheyenne Kimball, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
\n1990 <\/strong>\u2013 Stephen Li-Chung Kuo, Taiwanese-American figure skater
\n1990<\/strong> \u2013 Kriti Sanon, Indian actress
\n1991<\/strong> \u2013 Rena Matsui, Japanese actress, and singer
\n1993<\/strong> \u2013 Reagan Campbell-Gillard, Australian rugby league player
\n1993<\/strong> \u2013 Max Power, English footballer
\n1993<\/strong> \u2013 Jordan Spieth, American golfer
\n2001<\/strong> \u2013 Shin Ki-Joon, South Korean actor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"