July 27 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for July 27
In the headlines today:

2003	Entertainer Bob Hope dies at his Toluca Lake, California, home at age 100.
2002	88 die and over 100 are injured when a Soviet SU-27 fighter crashes at a Ukraine air show.
1996	One person is killed and more than 100 injured as a pipe bomb explodes at the Atlanta Olympics.
1995	US president Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam dedicate the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
1984	Actor James Mason (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) dies of a heart attack in Switzerland at age 75.
1980	The exiled Shah of Iran dies at a hospital near Cairo, Egypt.
1976	Ray Brennan becomes the first person to die from Legionnaire's Disease, following the American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
1953	The Korean War officially ends with the armistice signing at Panmunjom.
1940	"Eh, what's up, doc?" Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the Warner Brothers cartoon A Wild Hare.
1866	After two failed attempts, Cyrus Field lays the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable connecting North America and Europe.
1844	The US Mint in Charlotte, North Carolina, is nearly destroyed by fire.
1789	Congress establishes the Department of Foreign Affairs, later to become the US Department of State.
1694	The Bank of England receives a royal charter as a commercial institution.
1586	Sir Walter Raleigh brings the first Virginia-grown tobacco back to England.