July 27<\/p>\n
1189 \u2013 En route to the Holy Land during the Third Crusade, Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa I, leading his army, arrives at Ni\u0161, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja for resupply.<\/p>\n
1299 \u2013 Historians date the day as the founding of the Ottoman state when\u00a0 Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia in modern northwest Turkey, for the first time.<\/p>\n
1663 \u2013 The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act<\/em> requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.<\/p>\n 1775 \u2013 The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing “an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men.”, founding the U.S. Army Medical Department.<\/p>\n 1778 \u2013 During the Revolutionary War, the British and American ally French fleets fight to a standoff west of the isle of Ushant, at the mouth of the English Channel.<\/p>\n 1789 \u2013 President Washington signs the legislation establishing The\u00a0 Department of Foreign Affairs, later to be renamed The Department of State.<\/p>\n 1816 \u2013 During the Seminole Wars, US Navy Gunboat No. 154 ends the siege of Negro Fort when its cannon fire explodes the fort’s powder magazine<\/p>\n 1866 \u2013 The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, laid from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.<\/p>\n 1880 \u2013 During the Second Anglo-Afghan War, Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n 1890 \u2013 Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies 2 days later.<\/p>\n 1919 \u2013 The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over 5 days.<\/p>\n 1921 \u2013 At the University of Toronto, biochemist Frederick Banting proves that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.<\/p>\n 1929 \u2013 The Geneva Convention of 1929<\/em>, dealing with treatment of prisoners of war, is signed by 53 nations.<\/p>\n 1940 \u2013 The animated short A Wild Hare<\/em> is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.<\/p>\n 1949 \u2013 The de Havilland Comet<\/em>, the first jet-powered airliner, flies for the first time.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 A cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 5,000 American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces there to 21,000.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 The House Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 In Atlanta, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013\u00a0 A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 77 people and injuring more than 500 others, to date the deadliest air show disaster in history.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 After an incident during STS-114, launching Shuttle Discovery <\/em>on the first flight since the Shuttle Columbia disaster, <\/em>\u00a0NASA grounds the Space Shuttle fleet, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam 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