TODAY IN HISTORY..... By S. Garba ================================= July 27 1214 At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeats John ofEngland. 1245 Frederick II is deposed by a council atLyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege. 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia. 1663 British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods boundfor the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports. 1689 Government forces defeat the ScottishJacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie. 1777 The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in NewEngland to help fight the British. 1778 British and French fleets fight to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant. 1793 Robespierre becomes a member of theCommittee of Public Safety. 1861 President Abraham Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Armyof the Potomac. 1905 The International Workers of the Worldfound their labor organization in Chicago. 1909 Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12minutes and 40 seconds. 1914 British troops invade the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and begin to disarm,Irishrebels. 1921 Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto. 1944 U.S. troops complete the liberation ofGuam. 1953 Representatives of the United Nations,Korea and China sign an armistice atPanmunjon, Korea. 1964 President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam. 1980 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the lastShah of Iran dies in Cairo, Egypt. 1981William Wyler, director of Ben Hur, dies. 1993 Israeli guns and aircraft pound southernLebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks byHezbollah guerrillas. 2002 The largest air show disaster in historyoccurs when a Sukhoi Su-27 fightercrashes during an air show at Lviv,Ukraine, killing 85 and injuring more than100 others. =================================== Born on July 27 1768 Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary, assassin of Jean Paul Marat. 1777 Thomas Campbell, Scottish writer (ThePleasures of Hope). 1870 Hilaire Belloc, French writer (CautionaryTales). 1906 Leo Durocher, baseball player andmanager. 1908 Joseph Mitchell, writer for The NewYorker. 1930 David Hughes, English novelist (The Horsehair Sofa, The Man Who InventedTomorrow). 1939 Michael Longley, Irish poet. 1940 Bharati Mukherjee, Indian novelist (The Middleman and Other Stories). Compiled by S. Garba #arewatoday
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