On July 27th, various significant events happened throughout history. Let's first examine the important events from the past, followed by a brief overview of current noteworthy events. Specifically, we will focus on the major historical occurrences on July 27th during the Modern History era.
5. KOREAN WAR VETERANS ARMISTICE DAY:
We observe 27 July annually as Korean War Veterans Armistice Day to remember the service and sacrifice of the millions of people who served in the Korean War. This war was a major conflict in the Cold War between North Korea and South Korea, with the United States and its allies supporting South Korea and China and the Soviet Union supporting North Korea. The war began on June 25, 1950, and ended on July 27, 1953, with an armistice and is often called "The Forgotten War." Today, July 27, 2023, marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement at Panmunjom which result in the creation of a demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two nations in the Korean Peninsula.
6. BAGPIPE APPRECIATION DAY:
July 27th is celebrated as Bagpipe Appreciation Day every year. This day is dedicated to honoring the bagpipe, an ancient musical instrument that has been an integral part of Scottish culture for centuries. While bagpipes are commonly associated with traditional Scottish music, they can also be played in various other genres.
7. NATIONAL NEW JERSEY DAY:
National New Jersey Day takes place on July 27 every year. This day celebrates New Jersey being the third state to join the union. The holiday was started by Marlo Anderson (the founder of The National Day Calendar) in 2009 on the recommendation of the government of the state of New Jersey in America.
8. CRPF FOUNDATION DAY:
CRPF Foundation Day is celebrated annually on July 27 to commemorate the formation of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in 1939. It is one of the oldest and largest Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) in India responsible for maintaining law and order, conducting anti-terrorist operations, and providing security to VIPs and sensitive installations. It was originally constituted as the Crown Representative's Police in 1939, following the political unrest and agitations in the then princely states of India. The force was renamed as the CRPF by an Act of Parliament in 1949. On this day we pay tribute to the brave men and women of the CRPF who have served and continue to serve India.
9. BUG BUNNY:
Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon rabbit character created in the late 1930s at Warner Bros. Cartoons, who was originally named Happy Rabbit but renamed Bugs Bunny after his original writer, Ben "Bugs" Hardaway. He first appeared in the short film Porky's Hare Hunt (1938), but his definitive characterization debuted in the short film A Wild Hare (1940) on 27 July 1940.
10. INSULIN ISOLATION BY CANADIAN SCIENTISTS:
On July 27, 1921, Canadian doctors Frederick Banting (Surgeon) and Charles Best (Medical Student) working at the University of Toronto under the supervision of J.J.R. Macleod successfully isolated the hormone insulin for the first time. A major breakthrough in the treatment of diabetes, which was previously a fatal disease. Frederick Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923 for his discovery of insulin.
11. TEST FLIGHT OF FIRST COMMERCIAL JET
On this day in 1949, the de Havilland Comet, a special new airplane, took its very first test flight. It had powerful jet engines that made it much faster than other planes which made it quicker and more comfortable flights for travelers. This was a historic event in the aviation industry.
12. AUSTRIAN STATE TREATY:
The Austrian State Treaty was a treaty signed on May 15, 1955, that ended the Allied occupation of Austria and re-established Austria as an independent and sovereign state. The treaty was signed in the cold war era by Austria and the Allied Powers (France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States) at Vienna. The treaty came into force on this day 27 July 1955. This Treaty also put restrictions on Austria's military capabilities and prohibited the use of Austria's territory for military purposes.
13. UGANDA COUP:
On July 27, 1985, a military coup led by General Tito Okello and Brigadier Bazilio Olara-Okello overthrew the government of Ugandan President Milton Obote. The coup was plotted due to government authoritarian rule, economic decline, and the growing power of the rebel National Resistance Army (NRA) under Yoweri Museveni. Obote was forced to flee the country.
14. ATLANTA OLYMPICS ATTACK:
A tragic terrorist attack occurred during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. On July 27, 1996, a bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park. This devastating incident took the lives of two people and injured over a hundred others.
15. CHICAGO RACE RIOT:
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was a violent clash between Black and White people in Chicago. It happened on 27 July 1919 and lasted for a few days. The trouble began at a segregated beach when a Black teenager went into a white-only area was stoned and drowned in Lake Michigan, leading to fights and violence. Many people were hurt, and there was a lot of damage to Black neighborhoods. This event showed how important it is to fight for fairness and equality for everyone.
16. HEAT WAVES CAUSES FOREST FIRE: 27 JULY 2023
Firefighters have scrambled to extinguish blazes in at least 10 countries as a heat wave has swept the Mediterranean region.
In Algeria, wildfires east of the capital, Algiers, this week killed dozens of people and prompted the evacuation of more than 1,500 households; the fires also spread to neighboring Tunisia.
In Croatia, firefighters were still supervising a blaze on Friday that had broken out near the city of Dubrovnik and burned about 1,000 acres, the fire brigade said.
In France, blazes burned on the island of Corsica and led to road closures near the southern city of Nice.
In Greece, hundreds of firefighters have pushed to contain blazes on the mainland and on the islands of Corfu, Evia, and Rhodes. At least four people have died, including two pilots whose plane crashed in a firefighting operation in Evia, and two others after new blazes broke out in western Greece. The new blazes spread to a military barracks on Thursday, causing explosions at an ammunition warehouse, the government said. Scattered fires on the island of Rhodes, which have spurred the evacuation of nearly 20,000 people — the largest in recent Greek history, officials say — were still burning on Thursday.
In Italy, which bore the brunt of the recent heat wave, firefighters in the south of the country said they had responded to more than 1,300 incidents since Sunday, and officials in Sicily said that three people on the island had died in “devastating” blazes this week.
In Portugal, firefighters said they had contained a blaze on Wednesday at a national park in Cascais, a coastal municipality close to Lisbon.
In Spain, firefighters contained a wildfire overnight on Wednesday on the island of Gran Canaria, where about 1,000 acres burned and the region’s civil guard evacuated some residents. A wildfire last week on La Palma, another of the Canary Islands, had burned at least 11,000 acres.
In Syria, fires have raged in the country’s west in a rural part of the Latakia area.
In Turkey, dozens of aircraft and hundreds of firefighters have been responding to blazes in the Antalya region along the Mediterranean coast.
