27th July In History of India and World | History Today | 27th July In History
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Date: 27/07/2021

Historical events for the 27th of July. See what famous, interesting and notable events happened throughout history on July 27. What happened in history in India and the world on July 27. Famous birthdays, historical events in India and the world on this day July 27th.
432 St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1377 First example of quarantine in Rugusa (now Dubroknik); city council passes law saying newcomers from plague areas must isolation for 30 days (later 40 days, quaranta in Italian)
1789 US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department
1866 Transatlantic telegraph cable successfully in second attempt comes ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland laid out by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship (1,686 miles long)
1889 Branch of Indian National Congress, 'British India Committee' , was established under the leadership of Dadabhai Navroji.
1920 Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
1921 Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best of the University of Toronto succeeded in separating pure insulin.
1924 VIII Summer Olympic Games close in Paris, France
1940 Bugs Bunny was released from the animated short film A Wild Hare.
1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China.
1948 Bradman's 29th and last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404
1949 Agreement reached on the ceasefire line in Kashmir.
1953 North Korea and the United Nations sign armistice to stop fighting and divide Korea at the 38th parallel
1953 Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 died
1955 The Austrian State Treaty restored Austrian sovereignty.
1959 Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut.
1962 Martin Luther King Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia
1972 Charu Majumdar, father of Naxalite Movement and the founder President of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), died in prison.
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1983 Sinhala prisoners killed 18 Tamil political prisoners at Welikada Jail in Colombo.
1986 The Supreme Court orders all-India test for medical seats.
1987 First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.
1991 Army called out in Srinagar valley after an attack on security forces in which 17 persons were killed.
1992 Amjad Khan, famous film actor, died.
1993 P. V. Narasimha Rao government defeats the no-confidence motion by 265-251 votes. Seven of the JD (A) vote with government as JD (A) and AIADMK decide to vote for no-confidence motion.
1994 Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses.
1994 Indian Shooter Jaspal Rana won a gold medal at the World Shooting Championship.
1995 11 Cong-I and National Conference activists were gunned down in J&K after they were abducted from their homes.
1996 Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
1997 DMK president M Karuna Nidhi was elected party president for the seventh time in a row. It is a record.
1998 Gian Singh, convicted for the murder of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, is sentenced to death.
1998 17 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.
1998 The Centre announces a hefty hike in the pay scales of university and college teachers.
1999 The Ministry of Petroleum in India approved a proposal to use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as a fuel for vehicles.
2002 Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85, injuring more than 100, largest air show disaster in history
2006 The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance
2012 Queen Elizabeth II opens the 30th Olympics in London, United Kingdom.
2013 First Przewalski’s horse (whose wild populations were believed extinct in 1969) is born via artificial insemination at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute as part of a worldwide effort to rebuild the wild herds.
2020 Google decides its employees can work from home until July 2021, the largest tech company to commit to working from home.
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