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In the Gregorian Calendar, July 27 is the 208th
(Two-hundredth eighth) day of the year.

There are 157 days left until the end of 2021!

Quote of the Day…

Since we are in an economy and a cultural market reality, we are not only consumers of detergents or cans of beer with or without alcohol, but also of messages, of truths, of ideology, of information.

— Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Spanish writer (born July 27, 1939)

Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

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July 27 – A Day as Today – Events

587 a. C .: destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonian armies, including the consequent captivity that will last until 538 a. C. (according to the Second Book of Kings 25: 8-21).
615 (Mayan date 9.9.2.4.8): in Palenque (present-day Mexico) the 12-year-old boy Kinich Janaab Pakal (603-683) accesses the throne.
1054: Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
1214: in the battle of Bouvines, Felipe II of France defeats Juan Sin Tierra.
1309: the king of Castile, Fernando IV, breaks the truce that he had signed with that of Granada, Muhammad III, and encircles Algeciras.
1513: King Fernando appoints Pedro Arias Dávila administrator of the new government of Castilla de Oro (Panama).
1549: Saint Francis Xavier arrives on the shores of Japan.
1551: in France the edict of Chateaubriand is approved; sentences of ordinary civil courts against heresies are handed down without recourse.
1694: Foundation of the Bank of England.
1723: the works of the Palace of La Granja (Segovia) are finished and blessed.
1768: the British doctor William Heberden makes, at the Royal College of Physicians, the classic description of angina pectoris.
1789: King Louis XVI visits Paris and accepts the tricolor flag.
1794: Fall of Robespierre by which the coup against the government is carried out, known as the coup of 9 Thermidor, which will end the most radical stage of the French Revolution, called “the Terror.”
1830: the revolutionary days force King Charles X to flee from Paris.
1843: China is open to European trade.
1900: An expeditionary force to China leaves Germany to quell the Boxer rebellion.
1908: a cholera epidemic is declared in Russia.
1908: the new Shah of Persia dissolves Parliament and suspends the Constitution.
1909: Spanish troops suffer a severe defeat during the Melilla War in the day known as the Barranco del Lobo Disaster.
1910: Turkey threatens to declare war on Greece if it incorporates the Cretan deputies into the Greek National Assembly.
1913: The Chaco For Ever Athletic Club is founded.
1915: the Italians interrupt the second battle of the Isonzo, failing to achieve the expected success.
1916: Russians invade eastern Turkey and occupy Erzincan during World War I.
1919: in the city of Chicago (United States) –in the framework of apartheid that will last until 1965 in that country-, the race riots in Chicago begin, which will end a week later with a balance of 38 Afro-Americans killed by white-skinned citizens .
1921: Scientists Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Best manage to isolate the hormone insulin secreted by the pancreas.
1923: the first issue of the Revista de Occidente, founded and directed by José Ortega y Gasset until 1936, appears in Madrid.
1924: in Paris the VIII Olympic Games of the modern era are closed.
1927: the Boca Unidos Athletic Club is founded in the Province of Corrientes Argentina.
1929: Italian anti-fascist leaders Carlo Rosselli, Emilio Lussu and Francisco Fausto Nitti escape from the prison on the Lipari Islands.
1929: the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war is adopted.
1931: the Geneva Convention is signed, which regulates the humanitarian treatment that prisoners of war should receive.
1931: after the resignation of Chilean President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, a new Government is constituted.
1932: a rally against the Catalan autonomy statute is held in the Madrid bullring.
1933: the Government of the Second Spanish Republic recognizes the Soviet Union.
1934: the French socialist and communist parties sign a pact of unity of action against fascism in Paris.
1936: during the Civil War, the first squadron of Italian planes sent by Benito Mussolini arrived in Spain
1939: the permanent commission of the Cortes of the Spanish Republic decides to dissolve the Government in exile.
1940: Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in the film Wild Hare.
1941: Japan occupies the French territory of Indochina.
1941: Peru uses for the first time in the western hemisphere an attack by airborne forces and paratroopers to take Puerto Bolívar during the Peruvian-Ecuadorian war.
1945: The Atlee cabinet is established in the United Kingdom.
1946: the Kuomintang rejects the communist proposal to end the civil war in China.
1947: canonization of Catherine Labouré, a saint venerated for the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the origin of the dissemination of the Miraculous Medal.
1947: the Spanish republican government in exile, chaired by Rodolfo Llopis Ferrándiz, resigns, and is replaced by a coalition chaired by Álvaro de Albornoz and Liminiana.
1949: the Atlantic Pact is ratified in Washington.
1949: The de Havilland DH.106 Comet is the first commercial jet aircraft to fly.
1950: near the village of Nogun-Ri, 160 km southeast of Seoul (South Korea), it happens on the second day of the No Gun Ri Massacre): American soldiers kill about 300 refugees over three days South Koreans, mostly women and children.
1953: The United States, North Korea, and China sign an armistice that ends the Korean War. South Korea is only left as an observer member by refusing to sign the armistice.
1954: a treaty is signed between the United Kingdom and Egypt on the withdrawal of the British from the Canal area.
1955: in Spain the restoration works of the Teatro Real in Madrid, damaged during the Spanish civil war, are completed.
1955: an Israeli plane is shot down in Bulgarian airspace, and its 57 occupants die.
1955: the Austrian State Treaty enters into force, by which the Allied Forces recognize the State of Austria.
1960: in the Cuban town of Alquízar (Havana province) ―in the framework of the terrorist attacks organized by the US CIA―, a group of Cuban “bandits” assassinate the militiaman Eulalio Piloto-Fumero when he was on duty in the Crucero de la Cuchilla.
1966: in Spain the regime of student associations is modified.
1968: in Madrid (Spain) the publication of the Madrid newspaper is suspended for two more months.
1972: In Chile, the Concepción People’s Assembly is held, an experience of popular power Organized by a large part of the Chilean Left, an act rejected by the Communist Party of Chile and Salvador Allende himself
1972: China officially confirms the death of Chinese leader Lin Biao, in a plane crash.
1972: Anthropologist’s Day is celebrated in Argentina, this date was established in order to commemorate the founding of the College of Graduates in Anthropology (CGA).
1973: in Chile, a right-wing terrorist group assassinates Arturo Araya Peeters, naval aide to President Salvador Allende.
1974: in the United States, the House of Representatives begins a process against President Richard Nixon for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.
1976: Former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested for his alleged involvement in the Lockheed scandal.
1978: the Spanish Congress of Deputies approves the anti-terrorism and Police laws.
1979: the Paraguayan soccer team Olimpia wins the Copa Libertadores de América for the first time, becoming a historic milestone for the sport of that country.
1983: Gärmersdorf bei Amberg (Germany) has the highest temperature in the history of that country: 40.2 ° C (104.4 ° F).
1986: in Spain, large floods in the Murcian garden result in losses of five billion pesetas.
1987: in the March Library in Palma de Mallorca there is a copy of the work Sum and narration of the Incas (1551), by the Valladolid chronicler Juan de Betanzos.
1988: in Brazil a new Constitution is approved with great innovations, despite the opposition of President José Sarney.
1989: in the Soviet Union, the Parliament provisionally approves the financial autonomy of the Baltic Republics.
1989: In Sweden, Christer Pettersson is found guilty of murdering former Prime Minister Olof Palme and sentenced to life in prison. The sentence will be suspended three months later.
1989: After winning a classic against Boca Juniors by 2: 1, Daniel Passarella decides to retire from soccer.
1989: Korean Air Flight 803 crashed while trying to land in Tripoli, Libya.
1990: Belarus becomes independent from the Soviet Union.
1990: in Nigeria 42 soldiers are shot for attempted coup.
1994: in San Sebastián (Basque Country), the San Sebastian businessman José Manuel Olarte is assassinated by the terrorist group ETA.
1995: in Peru, Martha Chávez becomes president of Congress for the period 1995-1996, being the first woman to reach that position.
1996: in Atlanta (United States), one person dies and 111 are injured after a terrorist attack during the celebration of the Olympic Games.
1996: Victor Joy Way becomes president of Congress for the period 1996-1997.
1999: in New York, the musical Victor / Victoria is withdrawn from the Broadway billboard, after a total of 738 performances.
1997: Carlos Torres y Torres Lara becomes president of the Congress of the Republic of Peru for the period 1997-1998.
1998: in Peru, Víctor Joy Way becomes president of the Congress of the Republic of Peru for the period 1998-1999.
1998: the Spanish driver Carlos Sainz wins the New Zealand rally and becomes the absolute record holder in the history of the world championship, with 22 victories.
1999: in Peru, Martha Hildebrandt becomes president of Congress for the period 1999-2000, being the second woman to reach that position.
2001: in Peru, Carlos Ferrero Costa becomes president of the Congress of the Republic of Peru for the period 2001-2002.
2002: an expedition of explorers, led by Jacek Palkiewicz, claims to have discovered “El Dorado”, the mythical Inca city of Paititi, in an area adjacent to the Manu National Park, between the Peruvian departments of Cuzco and Madre de Dios.
2002: in New Zealand, the Labor Party wins the legislative elections and Helen Clark renews the position of Prime Minister.
2002: The US Congress grants President George W. Bush full powers to negotiate trade agreements with other countries.
2003: in Peru, Henry Pease García becomes president of the Congress for the period 2003-2004.
2004: in Peru, Ántero Flores-Aráoz becomes president of Congress for the period 2004-2005, being the only opposition president during the Alejandro Toledo regime.
2004: in San José (Costa Rica) a security guard seizes the Chilean embassy, shoots and kills three Chilean officials and commits suicide.
2004: Spain and Morocco agree to send a joint force to Haiti to participate in stabilization and reconstruction efforts in the country.
2005: in Peru, Marcial Ayaipoma becomes president of the Congress of the Republic of Peru for the period 2005-2006.
2012: Opening of the 2012 London Olympics.
2016: In Colombia, Atlético Nacional wins its second Copa Libertadores de América after defeating Independiente del Valle 2-1 in the Global.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

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July 27 – A Day as Today – Births

604: Fatima az-Zahra, Arab woman (f. 634) of great importance in Islam, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
1450: Jacobo Wimpfeling, German writer (d. 1528).
1452: Ludovico Sforza, Milanese aristocrat (d. 1508).
1612: Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
1667: Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748).
1733: Jeremiah Dixon, British geographer and astronomer (d. 1778).
1734: Sophia of France, French princess (d. 1782).
1740: Jeanne Baret, French botanist, first woman to circumnavigate the world (d. 1740).
1752: Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot de Beauvois, French naturalist (d. 1820).
1764: Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter (d. 1839).
1768: Charlotte Corday, French woman (d. 1793), assassin of French politician Jean-Paul Marat.
1773: Luisa de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, Tuscan aristocrat (d. 1802).
1773: Jacob Aall, Norwegian writer and politician (d. 1844).
1777: Thomas Campbell, British poet (d. 1844).
1780: Anastasio Bustamante, Mexican military and politician (d. 1853).
1784: George Onslow, French composer (d. 1853).
1781: Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer and guitarist (d. 1829).
1806: Francisco Méndez Álvaro, Spanish politician and physician (d. 1883).
1824: Alexander Dumas, French writer (d. 1895).
1834: Miguel Grau Seminario, soldier and Peruvian national hero (d. 1879).
1835: Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1906 (d. 1907).
1835: Augusto Ferrán, Spanish writer (d. 1880).
1844: José Roldán y Marín, Spanish politician and physician (d. 1897).
1851: Guillermo Billinghurst, Peruvian politician, businessman and journalist, president of Peru between 1912 and 1914 (d. 1915).
1852: Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, Argentine physician, naturalist and writer (d. 1937).
1854: Estanislao Zeballos, Argentine politician, writer, lawyer, historian and journalist (d. 1923).
1867: Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916).
1878: Iwane Matsui, Japanese general (d. 1948).
1881: Hans Fischer, German chemist and physician, 1930 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry (d. 1945).
1882: Donald Crisp, British actor and filmmaker (d. 1974).
1900: Charles Vidor, Hungarian-born American filmmaker (d. 1959).
1904: Anton Dolin, British ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1983).
1904: Liudmila Rudenko Soviet chess player (d. 1986).
1909: Sergio Fernández Larraín, Chilean politician (d. 1983).
1910: Julien Gracq, French writer (d. 2007).
1910: Lupita Tovar, Mexican actress (d. 2016).
1915: Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (f. 1982).
1916: Ángel Escudero del Corral, Spanish jurist (d. 2001).
1919: Gogó Andreu, Argentine actor and musician (d. 2012).
1919: Jack Goody, British social anthropologist and Africanist (d. 2015).
1919: Pastor Serrador, Argentine actor settled in Spain (d. 2006).
1925: Lita de Lázzari, Argentine television host (d. 2015).
1926: Nelly Prince, actress and Argentine television presenter.
1928: Joseph Kittinger, American aviator.
1931: Jerry Van Dyke, American actor and comedian (d. 2018).
1936: Miguel García Candiota, Spanish troubadour (d. 2007).
1936: Josep Termes, Spanish historian (d. 2011).
1938: Gary Gygax, American game designer and writer (d. 2008).
1939: Peppino di Capri, Italian singer and composer.
1939: William Eggleston, American photographer.
1940: Pina Bausch, German choreographer (d. 2009).
1942: Dennis Ralston, American tennis player.
1944: Franco Mescolini, Italian actor (d. 2017).
1946: Gwynne Gilford, American actress.
1948: Betty Thomas, American actress and filmmaker.
1949: Liliana Benard, Argentine actress and screenwriter.
1949: Maury Chaykin, Canadian actor (d. 2010).
1950: Carlos Boloña, Peruvian economist and politician (d. 2018).
1951: Eduardo Gómez, Spanish actor and comedian (f. 2019).
1951: Bernardo Atxaga, Spanish writer.
1952: Eduardo Milan, Uruguayan poet, essayist and literary critic.
1954: Philippe Alliot, French Formula 1 driver.
1957: Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler (d. 2013).
1960: Ricardo Hill, actor and Mexican comedian.
1962: Tony Leung, Chinese actor.
1963: Donnie Yen, Chinese actor and martial artist.
1964: Rex Brown, American bassist, of the band Pantera.
1965: José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan soccer player.
1965: Santi Rodríguez, Spanish actor and comedian.
1966: Artan Peqini, Albanian sculptor.
1967: Sasha Mitchell, American actor.
1968: Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress.
1968: Julian McMahon, Australian actor.
1968: Jorge Salinas, Mexican actor.
1969: Paul Levesque, American professional wrestler.
1972: Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysian physician and cosmonaut.
1972: Maya Rudolph, actress, comedian and American singer.
1973: Abe Cunningham, American drummer for the band Deftones.
1975: Fred Mascherino, American musician of the band Taking Back Sunday.
1975: Alex Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player.
1976: Seamus Dever, American actor
1977: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Irish actor.
1977: Alessandro Grandoni, Italian footballer.
1979: Shannon Moore, American professional wrestler.
1980: Nick Nemeth (Dolph Ziggler), American professional wrestler.
1980: Johnny Woodly, Costa Rican soccer player.
1982: Allan Davis, Australian cyclist.
1982: Neil Harbisson, Spanish-British artist.
1982: Daniel Ludueña, Argentine soccer player.
1983: Lorik Cana, Albanian footballer.
1984: Max Scherzer, American baseball player.
1984: Mariano Barbosa, Argentine soccer player.
1985: Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor.
1987: Marek Hamšík, Slovak footballer.
1989: Elfar Freyr Helgason, Icelandic footballer.
1989: Francisco Sousa dos Santos, Brazilian soccer player.
1990: Cheyenne Kimball, American singer.
1990: Indiana Evans, Australian actress.
1993: Jordan Spieth, American golfer.
1994: Lukas Spalvis, Lithuanian footballer.
1994: Winnie Harlow, Canadian model.
1995: Caio César, Brazilian soccer player.
1997: Gracin Bakumanya, Congolese basketball player.
1997: Hiroki Noda, Japanese footballer.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

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July 27 – A Day as Today – Deaths

432: Celestine I, Italian pope (n. ¿?).
1061: Nicholas II, Italian pope (b.909).
1101: Conrad, Roman king (b. 1074).
1276: Jaime I, Aragonese king (b.1208).
1510: Juan Sforza, Italian aristocrat (b.1466).
1582: Felipe de Pedro Strozzi, French military man (b. 1541).
1675: Henry de la Tour d’Auvergne-Bouillon, Viscount of Touraine, French nobleman and military man (b.1611).
1762: Edmé Bouchardon, French sculptor (b.1698).
1834: José Imaz Baquedano, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1767).
1837: Pablo Morillo, Spanish military man (b. 1775).
1841: Mikhail Lérmontov, Russian romantic writer and poet (b. 1814).
1844 – John Dalton, British chemist, physicist and mathematician (b. 1766).
1871: Manuel Z. Gómez, Mexican lawyer, politician, military and writer (b. 1813).
1873: Fiódor Tiútchev, Russian poet and diplomat (b. 1803).
1901: Antonio María Cascajares, Spanish cardinal, adviser to Queen María Cristina de Habsburgo (b. 1834).
1903ː Lina Sandell, Swedish poet and author of gospel hymns (b.1832)
1917: Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician, 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine (b. 1841).
1924: Ferruccio Busoni, Italian conductor and composer (b.1866).
1931: Jacques Herbrand, French mathematician (b.1908).
1934: Louis Hubert Lyautey, French military man (b. 1854).
1937 – Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, British admiral (b.1865).
1938 – Thomas Crean, Irish Antarctic explorer (b. 1877).
1962: Richard Aldington, British writer and poet (b. 1892).
1965: Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b.1901).
1967: Felix Yusupov, Russian aristocrat (b. 1887).
1968: José Arce, Argentine physician and politician (b. 1881).
1969: Marie Beatrice Schwarz, Dutch botanist (b.1898)
1970: António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese Prime Minister (b. 1889).
1972: Richard Nikolaus Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (b. 1894).
1979: Gustavo Cochet, Argentine painter, printmaker and writer (b. 1894).
1980: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Iranian shah (b.1919).
1981: William Wyler, American filmmaker (b.1902).
1984: James Mason, British actor (b.1909).
1990: Alberto Moreno, Uruguayan singer (b.1915).
1994: Kevin Carter, South African photographer (b. 1960).
1994: Rosa Chacel, Spanish writer of the Generation of 27 (b. 1898).
1995: Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer (b.1907).
2003: Bob Hope, American actor (b.1903).
2007: Manuel Calvo Pumpido, businessman and Spanish sports leader (b. 1938).
2007: Gabriel Cisneros, Spanish politician (b.1940).
2008: Youssef Chahine, Egyptian filmmaker (b.1926).
2008: Marisa Merlini, Italian comedy actress (b.1923).
2008: Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican businessman (b.1923).
2008: Horst Stein, German conductor and musician (b.1928).
2008: José Luis Ugarte, Spanish sailor (b.1928).
2010: Maury Chaykin, Canadian actor (b.1949).
2011: Teresa Izquierdo, Peruvian cook and writer (b.1934).
2011: Exhausted Kristof, Hungarian writer (b.1935).
2011: Pietro Sambi, Italian Archbishop (b.1938).
2012: Tony Martin, American singer (b.1913).
2013: Santiago Santamaría, Argentine soccer player (b.1952).
2013: Fernando Alonso, Cuban ballet teacher and dancer, founder of the National Ballet of Cuba (b.1914).
2013: Suzanne Krull, American actress (b. 1966).
2014: Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (b.1929).
2015: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian President (b.1931).
2016: Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (b.1928).
2018: Enrique Verástegui, Peruvian writer, poet, philosopher, musician, watercolorist, physicist and mathematician (b.1950).
2018: Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian intellectual, journalist and sexologist (b.1938).
2019: John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist, 1972 Nobel Prize winner in physics (b.1931).
2020: Jan Skopeček, Czech actor and playwright of Jewish origin (b.1925).

What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?

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July 27 – A Day as Today – Celebration

World Stray Dog Day
Argentina: Anthropologist’s Day
Philippines: Church ni Cristo Day
Puerto Rico: José Celso Barbosa Day
North Korea: Victory Day, celebrate the end of the Korean War
Finland: Day of the sleeper, in relation to the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus.
Remembrance Day (Day of the Martyrs and Wounded Soldiers) or (Day of Invalids and Martyrs of the Vietnam War)
Whistle Day.