Today in History - July 27
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82CE Jul 27,
Joseph of Arimathea, died and was buried in tomb he once lent to Jesus.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1214 Jul 27, At the Battle of
Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeated John of England.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1245 Jul 27, Frederick II of
France was deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of
sacrilege.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1452 Jul 27, Ludovico Sforza
(Ludovico il Moro, "The Moor," d.1508), Italian duke of Milan
(1494-1500), was born. He was the second son of Francesco Sforza, and
was famed as patron of Leonardo da Vinci and other artists.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico_Sforza)
1501 Jul 27, Copernicus was
formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1586 Jul 27, Sir Walter Raleigh
returned to England from Virginia with the 1st samples of tobacco.
(HN, 7/27/01)(MC, 7/27/02)
1588 Jul 27, The Spanish anchored
off Calais in a crescent-shaped, tightly-packed defensive formation,
not far from Parma's army of 16,000, which was waiting at Dunkirk.
(http://wapedia.mobi/en/Spanish_Armada#1.1.)
1643 Jul 27, Cromwell defeated the
Royalists at the Battle of Gainsborough.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1663 Jul 27, British Parliament
passed a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the
colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1689 Jul 27, Government forces
defeated the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1694 Jul 27, The Bank of England
received a royal charter as a commercial institution. The mission of
the bank was to provided war finance.
(SFC, 5/7/97, p.C2)(AP, 7/27/97)(Econ, 1/10/09, p.49)
1768 Jul 27, Charlotte Corday,
French patriot who assassinated Jean Paul Marat, was born.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1776 Jul 27, Silas Deane
(1737-1789), secretly sent to France as America’s first official envoy,
wrote a letter to the US Congress informing them that he has been
successful beyond his expectations. Deane had served as the Connecticut
delegate to the Continental Congress.
(http://tinyurl.com/lwd7xq)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Deane)
1777 Jul 27, Thomas Campbell,
Scottish writer (The Pleasures of Hope), was born.
(HN, 7/27/01)
1777 Jul 27, The Marquis of
Lafayette arrived in New England to help the rebellious colonists fight
the British.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1778 Jul 27, British and French
fleets fought to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1781 Jul 27, Mauro Giuseppe Sergio
Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, was born.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1789 Jul 27, President Washington
signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs,
forerunner of the Department of State.
(AP, 7/27/08)
1793 Jul 27, In France,
Robespierre became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1794 Jul 27, French revolutionary
leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and placed under arrest;
he was executed the following day.
(AP, 7/27/00)
1809 Jul 27, In Bolivia a
proclamation of independence of the La Paz colony, said to have been
written by Priest Medina and the first proclamation of that kind, was
released and sent to the other main cities of the colony, hoping they
would support the uprising.
(http://flagspot.net/flags/bo-l.html)
1809 Jul 27-1809 Jul 28, Arthur
Wellesley led the British army to triumph against the Spanish King
Joseph Bonaparte at Talavera de la Reina against a French army twice
his size. For this he was made Lord (the Duke of) Wellington.
(WSJ, 6/6/96, p.A15)
1816 Jul 27, US troops destroyed
the Seminole Fort Apalachicola, to punish the Indians for harboring
runaway slaves.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1824 Jul 27, Alexandre Dumas fils,
French playwright, novelist (Camille), was born.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1828 Jul 27, Gilbert Charles
Stuart, painter, died.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1830 Jul 27, A second Revolution
broke out in Paris opposing the laws of Charles X.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1833 Jul 27, Bartolommea Capitanio
(26), Italian monastery founder, saint, died.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1839 Jul 27, Chartist riots broke
out in Birmingham, England.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1841 Jul 27, Mikhail Yuryevich
Lermontov (b.1814), poet, novelist, died.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1852 Jul 27, George Foster
Peabody, philanthropist and namesake of the Peabody awards for
excellence in broadcasting, was born.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1857 Jul 27, Jose Celso Barbosa,
Puerto Rican statesman and humanitarian, was born in Bayamon.
(AP, 7/27/07)
1861 Jul 27, President Abraham
Lincoln replaced General Irwin McDowell with General George B.
McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac.
(AP, 7/27/97)(HN, 7/27/98)
1861 Jul 27, Battle of Mathias
Point, VA. Rebel forces repelled a Federal landing.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1863 Jul 27, William Lowndes
Yancey (b.1814), former Alabama state senator, and advocate of states’
rights and slavery, died at his home near in Montgomery, Alabama. In
2006 Eric H. Walther authored “William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of
the Civil War.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowndes_Yancey)
1864 Jul 27, Battle of Darbytown,
VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains).
(MC, 7/27/02)
1866 Jul 27, Cyrus W. Field
finished laying out the first successful underwater telegraph cable
between North America and Europe. A previous cable in 1858 burned out
after only a few weeks of use.
(AP, 7/27/08)
1867 Jul 27, Enrique Granados,
composer (Maria del Carmen), was born in Lerida, Spain.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1870 Jul 27, Hilaire Belloc,
French writer (Cautionary Tales), was born.
(HN, 7/27/01)
1877 Jul 27, Ernst von Dohnanyi,
composer (Message to Posterity), was born in Hungary.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1880 Jul 27, A.P. Abourne patented
a process for refining coconut oil.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1883 Jul 27, Albert Franz Doppler
(61), composer, died.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1888 Jul 27, Philip Pratt unveiled
the 1st electric automobile.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1906 Jul 27, Leo Durocher,
baseball player and manager, was born.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1908 Jul 27, Joseph Mitchell
(d.1996), writer for The New Yorker, was born. He pursued the "general
of nuisance: flops, drunks, con-artists, panhandlers, gin-mill owners
and their bellicose bartenders..."
(SFC, 5/25/96, p.A19)(HN, 7/27/01)
1909 Jul 27, Gianandrea Gavazzeni,
conductor, was born.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1909 Jul 27, Orville Wright tested
the U.S. Army's first airplane, flying himself and a passenger for 1
hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds over Fort Myer, Virginia.
(AP, 7/27/97)(HN, 7/27/02)(MC, 7/27/02)
1914 July 27, Germany informed
Belgium and Luxembourg of its intention to pass its troops through
their countries. German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
reportedly called the 1839 London Treaty, in which all the European
powers had guaranteed Belgian neutrality, "a scrap of paper" not worth
fighting over. Bethmann-Hollweg was trying to persuade Britain not to
declare war based on the treaty. Unsuccessful in his efforts, Britain
and Belgium declared war when German troops entered Belgium on August 4.
(HNQ, 7/24/98)
1914 Jul 27, British troops
invaded the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and began to disarm Irish
rebels.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1919 Jul 27, In a Chicago race
riot 15 whites and 23 blacks were killed with 500 injured.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1920 Jul 27, A radio compass was
used for 1st time for aircraft navigation.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1921 Jul 27, Canadians Sir
Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolated insulin at the University
of Toronto.
(HN, 7/27/01)
1922 Jul 27, Norman Lear, TV
writer, producer (All in The Family), was born.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1922 Jul 27, The US government
recognized the Lithuanian government de jure.
(Dr, 7/96, V1#1, p.4)
1924 Jul 27, Ferruccio Dante
Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni (58), composer, died. He left unfinished
his opera "Doktor Faust," which was finished in 1982 by Antony
Beaumont. The opera was based on work by Christopher Marlowe and puppet
plays that preceded the Goethe treatment.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.E2)(WSJ, 9/2/99, p.A12)(MC, 7/27/02)
1925 Jul 27, Charlie Poole
(1892-1931) and His North Carolina Ramblers recorded “Don’t Let Your
Deal Go Down Blues” at the NYC studios of Columbia Records.
(WSJ, 7/27/05,
p.D10)(www.emusic.com/artist/11579/11579058.html)
1929 Jul 27, Jack Higgins, [Harry
Patterson], novelist, was born.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1930 Jul 27, David Hughes, English
novelist (The Horsehair Sofa, The Man Who Invented Tomorrow), was born.
(HN, 7/27/01)
1931 Jul 27, Grasshoppers in Iowa,
Nebraska and South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of crops.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1939 Jul 27, Michael Longley,
Irish poet, was born.
(HN, 7/27/01)
1940 Jul 27, Bharati Mukherjee,
Indian novelist (The Middleman and Other Stories), was born.
(HN, 7/27/01)
1940 Jul 27, Bugs Bunny made his
official debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon "A Wild Hare." This
marked the beginning of the Bugs Bunny series by Fred "Tex" Avery along
with the rhetorical "What’s up, Doc?"
(AP, 7/27/97)(SFEC, 10/5/97, Z1 p.6)
1941 Jul 27, The German army
entered Ukraine.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1941 Jul 27, Japanese forces
landed in Indo-China.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1942 Jul 27, Benny Goodman and his
Orchestra and vocalist Peggy Lee recorded "Why Don't You Do Right" in
New York for Columbia Records.
(AP, 7/27/02)
1944 Jul 27, U.S. troops completed
the liberation of Guam.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1945 Jul 27, US Communist Party
formed.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1946 Jul 27, Gertrude Stein (72),
US-French author, poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), died in France. Her work
included the murder mystery "Blood on the Dining-Room Floor" and “The
Biography of Alice B. Toklas” (1933). She once said of Oakland, Ca.:
"There is no there there." Painter Francis Rose carved the headstone on
her grave at the Pere Lachaise cemetery. A biography of Stein by Linda
Wagner-Martin was published in 1996 titled "Favored Strangers." In 2007
Janet Malcolm authored “Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice.”
(SFC, 6/9/96, Z1 p.5)(WSJ, 10/5/99, p.A24)(WSJ,
9/25/07, p.D6)
1948 Jul 27, Otto Skorzeny escaped
an anti-Nazi camp at Darmstadt.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1949 Jul 27, The British 36-seat
jet-propelled De Havilland Comet 1 flew for the first time.
(www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Commercial_Aviation/Opening_of_Jet_era/Tran6.htm)
1953 Jul 27, An
armistice ending fighting in the three-year Korean War was signed by
representatives of the United Nations, Korea and China in Panmunjom.
Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison represented the UN and Gen. Nam Il
represented North Korea. General Mark Clark, commander of the UN
forces, added his signature to the armistice agreement. Armistice
negotiations had begun in July 1951, when the outlook for reunifying
North and South Korea became bleak, and fighting continued. The
cease-fire provided for an exchange of prisoners of war and established
a 2 ½ mile wide demilitarized zone and a demarcation line at the
38th parallel. Not all aspects of the agreement, however, were
finalized—the UN Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of
Korea was not suspended until 1977. N. Korea measures 46,540 sq. miles,
its population in 1974 was ~15 million people. 33,651 Americans had
died and 8,000 were still missing in 2000.
(NG, 8/74, p.255)(TMC, 1994, p.1953)(WSJ, 6/24/96,
C1)(WUD, 1994, p.1685)(HNPD, 7/27/98)(HN, 7/27/98)(SFEC, 5/9/99,
p.T10)(SFEC, 6/25/00, Par p.5)(SFC, 7/25/03, p.E6)
1953 Jul 27, Vatican disallowed
priests holiday work in factories.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1960 Jul 27, Vice President Nixon
was nominated for president at the Republican national convention in
Chicago.
(AP, 7/27/00)
1962 Jul 27, Martin Luther King
Jr. was jailed in Albany, Georgia.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1963 Jul 27, Garrett A. Morgan
(86), inventor and founder of the Cleveland Call, died.
(ON, 3/02, p.12)
1964 Jul 27, President Lyndon
Johnson sent an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1965 Jul 27, Pres. Johnson signed
a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all
cigarette packages about the effects of smoking.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1967 Jul 27, In the wake of urban
rioting, President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess
the causes of the violence. The same day, black militant H. Rap Brown
said violence was "as American as cherry pie."
(AP, 7/27/97)
1968 Jul 27, A 3-day race riot
began in Gary, Indiana.
(www.project1968.com/july-28-august-3-1968.html)
1970 Jul 27, Antonio de Oliveira
Salazar (b.1889), former dictator of Portugal (1932-68), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salazar)
1972 Jul 27, "Applause" closed at
Palace Theater in NYC after 900 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3519)
1973 Jul 27, Eddie Rickenbacker
(b.1890), American WW I fighter pilot, died in Zurich. He and several
associates bought Eastern Airlines in 1938 and guided it to become one
of the most profitable airlines in the postwar era.
(HNPD,
10/7/98)(www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=324)
1974 Jul 27, The House Judiciary
Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Nixon's impeachment on a
charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed
to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
(AP, 7/27/97)(HN, 7/27/98)
1976 Jul 27, John Lennon was
granted a green card for permanent residence in US.
(http://beatlesnumber9.com/usvjohnlennon.html)
1976 Jul 27, Air Force veteran Ray
Brennan became the first person to die of so-called "Legionnaire’s
Disease" following an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
(AP, 7/27/00)
1976 Jul 27, Kakuei Tanaka, former
PM (1972-1974) of Japan, was arrested for accepting a bribe from the US
Lockheed Corp. Tanaka was convicted in 1983 but continued to fight the
charges. A. Carl Kotchian (d.2008 at 94), a Lockheed salesman, had
testified that Lockheed had paid $12.6 million in bribes to Japanese
businessmen and government officials.
(www.international.ucla.edu/eas/restricted/lockheed.htm)(Jap. Enc.,
BLDM, p. 216)(SFC, 12/24/08, p.B7)
1980 Jul 27, On day 267 of the
Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran (1941-1979) died at a
military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60.
(AP, 7/27/00)
1981 Jul 27, Adam Walsh (6)
disappeared from a Hollywood mall. Fishermen discovered his severed
head 2 weeks later in a canal 120 miles away. In 2008 police named
Ottis Toole, who had died in prison in 1996, as the murderer. The Adam
Walsh Act of 2006 obliged states to make their sex offender registries
public.
(SFC, 12/17/08, p.A7)(Econ, 8/8/09, p.9)
1981 Jul 27, William Wyler
(b.1902), German-born American film director (The Best Years of Our
Lives, Ben Hur), died.
(SFC, 7/8/02,
p.D2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wyler)
1982 Jul 27, Menken and Ashman's
musical "Little Shop of Horrors" premiered in NYC.
(www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm42.html)
1984 Jul 27, Actor James Mason
died in Lausanne, Switzerland, at age 75.
(AP, 7/27/99)
1987 Jul 27, Retired Ohio
autoworker John Demjanjuk, accused of being the sadistic Nazi guard
known as "Ivan the Terrible," testified at his trial in Jerusalem that
he was not "the hangman you're after." His subsequent conviction was
overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.
(AP, 7/27/97)
1987 Jul 27, In Warwick, RI, Craig
Price (13) crept across his neighbor's yard, broke into a little brown
house on Inez Avenue and stabbed Rebecca Spencer 58 times. She was a
27-year-old mother of two. On Sep 1, 1989, he butchered Joan Heaton
(39) with kitchen knives she had bought earlier that day. The bodies of
her daughters, Jennifer 10, and Melissa 8, were found in pools of
blood, pieces of knives broken off in their bones; Jennifer had been
stabbed 62 times. Price was scheduled to be released in 1994 but was
sentenced to 15 years, seven to serve and eight suspended, following
contempt charges and belligerent statements. Fights in prison added
more time to his sentence. As of 2007 Price's scheduled release date
was February 2022. He will be 48.
(AP,
12/16/07)(www.projo.com/extra/2004/craigprice/content/timeline.htm)
1988 Jul 27, Sein Lwin (d.2004)
then became chairman of Burma's ruling party and the country's
president, but the pro-democracy protests grew. Instead of negotiating,
Sein Lwin tried to end the protests by force, and the capital became a
bloody battleground.
(AP, 4/10/04)
1989 Jul 27, Workers at the Nissan
Motor Corp. assembly plant in Smyrna, Tenn., voted against
representation by the United Auto Workers.
(AP, 7/27/99)
1989 Jul 27, Charles Stevens (20)
of Oakland, Ca., was arrested on a freeway on-ramp while watching
police attend to the wrecked car of his last murder victim. Over the
last 4 months he had shot to death 4 people and fired at 10 others. In
2007 the California state Supreme Court upheld his death sentence.
(SFC, 6/5/07, p.C2)
1989 Jul 27, Eighty people were
killed when a Korean Air DC-10 crashed in Libya.
(AP, 7/27/99)
1990 Jul 27, Louisiana Governor
Buddy Roemer vetoed a tough abortion bill passed by his state’s
legislature.
(AP, 7/27/00)
1990 Jul 27, A mistrial was
declared in Raymond Buckey’s retrial on charges of molesting children
at the McMartin Pre-School in California.
(AP, 7/27/00)
1990 Jul 27, Zsa Zsa Gabor began a
3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop in 1989.
(http://tinyurl.com/po8cd)
1990 Jul 27, White Russia
(Belarus) declared independence.
(www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107325.html)
1991 Jul 27, Fighting escalated in
the breakaway republic of Croatia, as a Yugoslav air force jet fired on
Croatian forces and ground fighting erupted into clashes with federal
tanks and troops.
(AP, 7/27/01)
1992 Jul 27, President Bush's
aides attacked Democratic nominee Bill Clinton's foreign policy
credentials and judgment.
(AP, 7/27/97)
1992 Jul 27, At the Summer
Olympics in Barcelona, the U.S. men's volleyball team was stripped of
its victory over Japan the day before in an opening-round game.
(AP, 7/27/97)
1993 Jul 27, IBM reported a record
$8.4 billion quarterly loss.
(AP, 7/27/98)
1993 Jul 27, Boston Celtics star
Reggie Lewis died after collapsing on a Brandeis University basketball
court during practice; he was 27.
(AP, 7/27/98)
1993 Jul 27, Israeli guns and
aircraft pounded southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by
Hezbollah guerrillas.
(HN, 7/27/98)
1993 Jul 27, Bombs exploded in
Rome and Milan, killing at least five people.
(AP, 7/27/98)
1994 Jul 27, Bosnian Serbs
reimposed their blockade of Sarajevo and fired on a U.N. convoy,
killing one British soldier and wounding another.
(AP, 7/27/99)
1995 Jul 27, The Korean War
Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington by President Clinton and
South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
(AP, 7/27/98)
1995 Jul 27, Miklos Rozsa (88),
Hungarian movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), died.
(www.sospeso.com/contents/composers_artists/rozsa.html)
1996 Jul 27, The Santa Fe Opera
premiered "Emmeline" by Tobias Picker. It was based on a novel by
Judith Rossner.
(WSJ, 8/15/96, p.A10)(www.current.org/prog613.html)
1996 Jul 27, American Gail Devers
won the women's 100-meter dash.
(AP, 7/27/97)
1996 Jul 27, A pipe bomb was set
off at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. One person, Alice Stubbs
Hawthorne (44), was killed and 111 injured. Eric Rudolph was later
charged with the bombing. He was arrested May 31, 2003. Rudolph later
pleaded guilty to the bombing.
(WSJ, 7/29/96, p.A1,3)(WSJ, 8/9/96, p.A10)(SSFC,
6/1/03, p.A1)(AP, 7/27/08)
1996 Jul 27, The cruise ship
Universe Explorer caught fire in Alaska’s Inside Passage and 5 crew
members were killed and 76 people injured.
(WSJ, 7/29/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 27, Lee Lescaze,
journalist and editor, died of cancer. In 2007 Lynn Darling, his widow,
authored “Necessary Sins,” a chronicle of their life together.
(WSJ, 6/2/07,
p.P9)(www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-797868.html)
1996 Jul 27, A ship carrying 69
people sank in the Indian Ocean off the Comoro islands near the island
of Mwali. 5 survivors were found.
(WSJ, 7/29/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 27, In Burundi a
Tutsi-led army killed at least 30 Hutu rebels in retaliation for an
attack on a coffee plantation. Independent sources said that Hutus set
fire to the factory and rice plantation in Giheta to justify a
retaliatory attack on villages where Hutu rebels were thought to have
taken refuge. Villagers said Tutsi soldiers massacred about 1,000 Hutus
as they roamed from village to village in Gitega province.
(WSJ, 7/30/96, p.A1)(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A8)
1996 Jul 27, In Indonesia soldiers
raided the headquarters of Megawati Sukarnoputri. They arrested 176
people and riots followed with 2 dead and 26 injured.
(WSJ, 7/29/96, p.A1)
1997 Jul 27, United Auto Workers
approved a deal to end a six-day strike at a General Motors parts plant
that forced four assembly plant shutdowns and threatened GM's entire
North American production.
(SFC, 7/28/97, p.A3)(AP, 7/27/98)
1997 Jul 27, In Belarus Some 5-7
thousand marchers rallied to condemn Pres. Lukashenko. within hours
activists were detained by the government.
(SFC, 7/28/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 27, In San Sebastian,
Spain, some 30,000 marched in support of the ETA separatist movement.
(SFC, 7/28/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 27, Mohammed Mahdi
al-Jawahri, classical Arab poet, died in Syria. He was the most famous
poet of Iraq from whence he fled in 1979. His work included "Between
Passion and Feeling" (1928) and "Al Jawahri’s Divan" (1935).
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.A21)
1998 Jul 27, President Clinton
held a town meeting in Albuquerque, N.M., on the future of Social
Security, during which he expressed skepticism about proposals to
privatize part of the Social Security trust fund.
(AP, 7/27/99)
1998 Jul 27, Monica Lewinsky was
interviewed for five hours by prosecutors in New York in a possible
prelude to an immunity deal.
(AP, 7/27/99)
1998 Jul 27, In Chicago two boys,
aged 7 and 8, reportedly killed an 11-year-old girl, Ryan Harris, with
a thrown rock that caused the girl to fall and hit her head. The boys
dragged her to a wooded area and began to play with her body and later
lied to police. The boys faced the juvenile equivalent of first degree
murder. Her body was found the next day. Later evidence of semen caused
prosecutors to drop murder charges against the boys. The boys later
sued Chicago for false arrest and settled for $6.2 million. In
September police arrested another suspect whose DNA matched that found
on Ryan. The charges on the 2 boys were dropped Sept 4 and in 1999
Floyd Durr was indicted for the murder of Ryan Harris. On March 4, 2005
Floyd Durr, was convicted of three counts of predatory criminal sexual
assault and one count of aggravated kidnapping. He was sentenced to
20-year terms of imprisonment on the former convictions and a 15-year
term of imprisonment on the latter. On April 10, 2006, Durr was
sentenced to life plus 30 years in exchange for pleading guilty to
raping and killing Ryan.
(SFC, 8/11/98, p.A3)(SFC, 9/5/98, p.A3)(SFC,
9/23/98, p.A6)(USAT, 3/24/99, p.6A) (http://tinyurl.com/6rkl3d)
1998 Jul 27, Noel Behn (70),
novelist and screenwriter, died in Manhattan. His work included "The
Kremlin Letter," "The Big Stick-Up at Brink’s," and "The Shadowboxer."
(SFC, 8/1/98, p.A19)
1998 Jul 27, In Fiji a new
constitution took effect with a bill of rights that replaced a document
that barred non-native people from top posts. Indians made up about 46%
of the population.
(SFC, 7/28/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 27, In Colombia rebels
kidnapped a congressman and 6 others at a roadblock in Santander
province.
(WSJ, 7/28/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 27, It was reported that
Russia and Iran were supporting the Northern Alliance of rebel groups
fighting against the Taliban.
(SFC, 7/27/98, p.A9)
1998 Jul 27, In Hodeida, Yemen, 3
nuns were killed by Abdullah al-Nashri (25), an unstable, mental
patient treated by the Missionaries of Charity.
(SFC, 7/28/98, p.A10)
1999 Jul 27, The House approved
President Clinton’s one-year extension of normal trade with China.
(AP, 7/27/00)
1999 Jul 27, In an overwhelming
defeat for major league umpires, their threatened walkout collapsed
when all of the umpires withdrew their resignations; however, about
one-third of them ended up losing their jobs anyway.
(AP, 7/27/00)
1999 Jul 27, The US eased
sanctions against Iran, Libya and Sudan to allow the sale of food,
medicine and medical equipment.
(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A5)
1999 Jul 27, The Columbia space
shuttle landed at Cape Canaveral after a 3 day mission to deploy the
Chandra X-ray telescope. With Air Force Colonel Eileen Collins at the
controls, space shuttle "Columbia" returned to Earth, ending a five-day
mission.
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.A3)(AP, 7/27/00)
1999 Jul 27, Binney & Smith
Inc., makers of Crayola crayons, adopted the name "chestnut" to replace
"Indian red."
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.B12)
1999 Jul 27, In Indonesia renewed
fighting in Ambon and Aceh left 17 people dead.
(WSJ, 7/28/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 27, A bomb in
Pakistan-ruled Kashmir killed 7 people and injured 40 when it exploded
on a bus in the Kotli district.
(WSJ, 7/28/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 27, It was reported that
Paraguay had raised $400 million through 2 bond issues arranged by the
government of Taiwan with 20-year maturities and an interest rate of
about 6.8%.
(WSJ, 7/28/99, p.A20)
1999 Jul 27, In Switzerland 19
people were killed as they tried to "canyon" down a narrow gorge on the
Saxeten River off Lake Brienz. Two people were still missing and 13
were identified as Australians. 18 tourists and 3 guides died in the
flash flood. In 2001 6 former employees of the adventure company were
convicted of negligent manslaughter and given suspended sentences with
fines.
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.A1)(SFC, 7/29/99, p.A10)(SFC,
12/12/01, p.A7)
2000 Jul 27, In Chechnya 74
bodies, mostly men, were removed from a mass grave near Tangi-Chu. As
many as 80 more remained.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 27, In Germany an
explosive device detonated and injured 9 people at a train station in
Dusseldorf.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.D3)
2000 Jul 27, In Nepal a Canadian
built Twin Otter Royal Nepal Airlines plane crashed near Jogbudha and
all 25 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 27, North Korea joined
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.D3)
2000 Jul 27, Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic called presidential, parliamentary and local
elections for the following September. The election resulted in
Milosevic’s fall from power.
(AP, 7/27/01)
2001 Jul 27, A judge in West Palm
Beach, Fla., sentenced 14-year-old Nathaniel Brazill to 28 years in
prison for fatally shooting teacher Barry Grunow at Lake Worth Middle
School.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2001 Jul 27, Jeanine Harms was
last seen alive in Campbell, Ca. In 2004 San Jose architect Maurice
Xavier Nasmeh was arrested for her murder. In 2007 a judge dismissed
murder charges against Nasmeh due to lack of evidence.
(SFC, 12/17/04, p.B1)(SFC, 6/28/07, p.B3)
2001 Jul 27, It was reported that
the Earth Liberation Front had begun selling a promotional videotape
for $10 called "An Introduction to the Earth Liberation Front."
(SFC, 7/27/01, p.A10)
2002 Jul 27, John Ruiz retained
the WBA heavyweight title in Las Vegas after his opponent, Kirk
Johnson, was disqualified for hitting low blows.
(AP, 7/27/03)
2002 Jul 27, Five US soldiers were
wounded during a joint recon patrol east of Khost. 2 allied Afghan
militiamen were killed. On Aug 7 Sgt. Christopher James Speer (28) of
Albuquerque died from his wounds. Omar Khadr (15) was arrested for
throwing the grenade that mortally wounded Speer and sent to
Guantanamo. Khadr was born in Canada to a family with deep ties to
al-Qaida. In 2007 a military judge dismissed charges against Khadr.
(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A6)(SSFC, 6/3/07, p.A4)(AP, 6/4/07)
2002 Jul 27, Nearly 60 false
killer whales stranded on an Australian beach died or were euthenize
after failed attempts to return them to the water.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 27, In Austria a hand
grenade exploded in the X-Large Disco makeshift discotheque in Linz,
frequented by young Serbian and Croatian immigrants, wounding 27
teenage revelers.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 27, In Iran a hard-line
court outlawed the leading reform-minded opposition party, the Freedom
Movement, and gave its leaders jail terms of up to 10 years and fines
of more than $6,000. The court said Freedom Movement leaders acted
against national security with the intention of "overthrowing the
establishment."
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 27, New Zealanders gave
Prime Minister Helen Clark a historic second term after she called
early elections to capitalize on a strong economy that pulled the
country through the global slump largely untouched.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 27, In Pakistan a court
sentenced Wajihul Hassan (27) to death for making derogatory comments
about the prophet Mohammed and Islam.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 27, South American
leaders ended a two-day summit with an agreement to strengthen
cooperation to better negotiate with the United States a free-trade
zone for the hemisphere. In a document called the "Guayaquil
Consensus," the 10 presidents said it was important to fortify
cooperation between the region's two major trade blocs (Mercosur, made
up of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, with Chile and Bolivia
as associated members, and the Andean pact, composed of Venezuela,
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia) to permit South America to proceed
successfully with negotiations for a hemispheric-wide free-trade zone.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2002 Jul 27, In Lviv, Ukraine, a
fighter jet slammed onto the tarmac and sliced through a crowd watching
an air show, killing 85 people and injured 116.
(AP, 7/28/02)(WSJ, 8/8/02, p.A1)
2003 Jul 27, Bob Hope (b.1903),
master of the one-liner and favorite comedian of servicemen and
presidents alike, died at his home in Toluca Lake, Ca. He was born
Leslie Townes Hope on May 29, 1903, in Eltham, England, the 5th of 7
sons of a British stonemason and a Welsh singer of light opera.
(AP, 7/28/03)
2003 Jul 27, In Bermuda Premier
Jennifer Smith stepped down after retaining her seat by just eight
votes and watching her governing party narrowly win elections in the
British territory. Members of the center-left Progressive Labor
Party endorsed Alex Scott (63) to replace her.
(AP, 7/28/03)
2003 Jul 27, Lance Armstrong rode
to his 5th straight Tour de France victory in a ceremonial final stage
in Paris.
(SSFC, 7/27/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 27, Cambodia held
elections for seats in the123-member national Assembly in the third
democratic election in a decade.
(AP, 7/27/03)(SSFC, 7/27/03, p.A9)
2003 Jul 27, The Israeli Cabinet
voted to release up to 540 jailed Palestinians.
(SFC, 7/28/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 27, In Manila some 300
mutinous Philippine troops, who seized a downtown residential shopping
complex, surrendered. This ended a 19-hour standoff with government
forces without a shot fired. Pres. Arroyo declared a state of
rebellion, which lasted to Aug 11. In 2008 Arroyo pardoned 9 military
officers who apologized after being convicted of the coup.
(AP, 7/27/03)(WSJ, 8/12/03, p.A1)(AP, 5/12/08)
2004 Jul 27, Barack Obama,
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois, delivered a speech at
the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Other speakers included
Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean, Ron Reagan, and Teresa Heinz Kerry. Democrats
assailed President Bush's handling of the Iraq war at their convention
in Boston and painted a vivid portrait of John Kerry as a decorated war
hero. The candidate's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, told the gathering: "He
earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the
line."
(AP, 7/27/04)(AP, 7/27/05)
2004 Jul 27, NYC Mayor Michael
Bloomberg visited a slum in Haiti and met interim leaders.
(AP, 7/27/04)
2004 Jul 27, A boat carrying
people to a flood shelter capsized in Bangladesh killing 10 people. The
total monsoon death toll for SE Asia passed 1,000 as the worst flooding
in years turned the capital, Dhaka, into an open sewer and disease
spread.
(AP, 7/27/04)
2004 Jul 27, Belarus ordered a
leading independent university closed, citing licensing problems, a
week after a march against Lukashenko’s rule.
(WSJ, 7/28/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 27, Brazil’s police said
they have arrested 6 suspects in the Jan 28 shooting deaths of 4 Labor
Ministry employees. They still don't know who ordered the killings.
(AP, 7/27/04)
2004 Jul 27, The official Xinhua
News Agency said Chinese authorities have shut down 700 pornographic
Web sites in less than two weeks as part of a massive campaign to clean
up the Internet.
(AP, 7/27/04)
2004 Jul 27, A Costa Rican
policeman apparently distraught over an impending job transfer killed
himself and three of the 10 hostages he had taken at the Chilean
embassy.
(AP, 7/28/04)
2004 Jul 27, A Baghdad mortar
barrage killed an Iraqi garbage collector and injured 14 coalition
soldiers.
(AP, 7/27/04)
2004 Jul 27, The chief executive
of a Jordanian firm working for the U.S. military in Iraq said he was
withdrawing from the country to secure the release of two employees who
have been kidnapped by militants.
(AP, 7/27/04)
2004 Jul 27, The U.N. Security
Council extended an arms embargo on Congo for a year as fighting
continued between rival factions.
(AP, 7/27/04)
2004 Jul 27, All but three of 70
suspected mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea
pleaded guilty to lesser charges in Zimbabwe.
(AP, 7/27/04)
2005 Jul 27, The US House approved
the Central America trade pact, CAFTA, 217-215. It is aimed at reducing
trade barriers among the US, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.
(WSJ, 7/28/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 27, Ahmed Ressam, an
Algerian who'd plotted to bomb the Los Angeles airport on the eve of
the millennium, was sentenced to 22 years in prison by a judge in
Seattle.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2005 Jul 27, The US charged
Iraqi-born Wasem al Delaema (32), a Dutch citizen, with conspiring to
kill Americans in Iraq and asked the Dutch government to extradite him
for prosecution. Authorities alleged al Delaema was one of several men
calling themselves the Fighters of Fallujah who plotted attacks near
that Iraqi city in October 2003.
(AP, 7/30/05)
2005 Jul 27, Wal-Mart filed suit
in Arkansas against former Vice Chairman Thomas Coughlin for alleged
fraud using company cards for bogus expenses.
(WSJ, 7/28/05, p.B2)
2005 Jul 27, NASA grounded the
shuttle fleet after admitting a large piece of foam had fallen off the
Jul 26 Discovery launch.
(SFC, 7/28/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 27, In Miami, Florida,
Arthur Teele Jr., a former city commissioner, committed suicide in the
lobby of the Miami Herald. He had been recently indicted on federal
charges that included mail fraud and money laundering. Columnist Jim
DeFede was fired shortly thereafter after admitting that he had just
taped a conversation with Teele, but without direct consent.
(SFC, 7/29/05, p.A4)
2005 Jul 27, Robert Wright (90),
composer and lyricist, died in Miami. His work in collaboration with
George Forrest included the Broadway musicals “Song of Norway” (1944)
and “Kismet” (1953).
(SFC, 7/30/05, p.B4)
2005 Jul 27, Environment Minister
Ian Campbell said Australia and the US have been secretly negotiating a
new international pact on greenhouse gas emissions to replace the Kyoto
Protocol, which they refused to sign. The other participants in the
pact to use cleaner energy technologies to curb climate-changing
pollution included China, India, Japan, South Korea.
(AP, 7/27/05)(SFC, 7/28/05, p.A3)
2005 Jul 27, British police
arrested 4 men in raids in Birmingham including Yasin Hassan Omar, who
was suspected of being a member of the gang that carried out botched
bombings last week in London.
(Reuters, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 27, It was reported that
some Chinese beer makers used small quantities of formaldehyde to
improve color and prevent sediment from forming during storage. Major
producers did they did not use the additive. The practice was abandoned
in the West.
(WSJ, 7/27/05, p.B9)
2005 Jul 27, In Ethiopia state
media reported that police had arrested 25 people in connection with a
series of bombings that killed five and injured 31 in an apparent
attempt to disrupt elections in an eastern province.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 27, A French court
convicted 62 defendants in a mass pedophilia trial and sentenced some
of them to up to 28 years in prison for their roles in a network that
systematically raped and prostituted children in western France.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 27, France Telecom bought
an 80% stake in Amena, Spain’s 3rd largest mobile telephone operator.
(Econ, 7/30/05, p.54)
2005 Jul 27, The heaviest rainfall
ever recorded in India shut down the financial hub Bombay, snapped
communication lines and closed airports. Officials said at least 633
people had died across India in two months of monsoon downpours.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 27, There was a massive
fire on an oil platform in India's biggest oil field. Ships and
helicopters rescued more than 350 survivors. 10 people were confirmed
dead with several still missing.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 27, Iran said it will
restart some nuclear activities as soon as August and that it has fully
developed solid-fuel technology in producing missiles, a major
breakthrough that increases the accuracy of missiles hitting targets.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 27, Iraqi commandos
captured Hamdi Tantawi, an Egyptian said to be an associate of Ayman
al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's 2nd in command. Iraq's most feared terror group
said it had killed two kidnapped Algerian diplomats.
(AP, 7/27/05)(AP, 7/27/06)
2005 Jul 27, Israeli troops killed
a Palestinian stone-thrower during an arrest raid that caught a wanted
Islamic Jihad militant in this West Bank town.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 27, Bishop Jovan
Vraniskovski in Skopje, Macedonia, was sentenced to at least 18 months
in jail for “instigating national and religious hatred.”
(Econ, 9/10/05, p.50)
2005 Jul 27, North Korea said it
would give up its nuclear weapons only after the alleged US atomic
threat is removed from the divided peninsula and relations with the US
are normalized.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 27, Officials reported
that Pakistani security forces have rounded up about 600 suspected
militants and Islamic clerics in a week-long crackdown that followed
the July 7 London attacks.
(AFP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 27, In eastern Pakistan
Hashim Qadeer, an Islamic militant who set up the initial meeting (Jan
23, 2002) between Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and his
kidnappers, was arrested. The suspect was a member of two outlawed
militant groups, Harkat-ul Mujahedeen and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
(AP, 7/28/05)
2005 Jul 27, Rescuers found the
bodies of four South Korean soldiers, a day after they were swept away
by a fast moving river during training exercises near the border with
North Korea.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 27, The UN started
evacuating more than 400 refugees from a camp in Kyrgyzstan and will
fly them to a third country to keep them from being sent home to
Uzbekistan where they fear prosecution. Uzbekistan has been pressuring
Kyrgyzstan to hand over the refugees, and Kyrgyz officials relented in
recent weeks, sending at least 87 of them back.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 27, A UN envoy presented
her report condemning Zimbabwe's sweeping slum clearance to the
Security Council, despite opposition from China, Russia and African
countries, and called for urgent assistance to help those who have lost
their homes and jobs.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2006 Jul 27, Pres. Bush signed
Adam Walsh Act of 2006. It required convicted child molesters to be
listed on a national Internet database and face a felony charge for
failing to update their whereabouts.
(SFC, 7/28/06,
p.A1)(www.fd.org/odstb_AdamWalsh.htm)(Econ, 8/8/09, p.9)
2006 Jul 27, Floyd Landis'
stunning Tour de France victory just four days earlier was thrown into
question when he tested positive for high levels of testosterone during
the race. Landis denied cheating.
(AP, 7/27/07)
2006 Jul 27, An Arkansas judge
approved a $90 million settlement between Google Inc. and advertisers
who claimed improper billing for fraudulent clicks on ads.
(SFC, 7/28/06, p.D3)
2006 Jul 27, In California as many
as 126 people were reported dead over the last 12 days from a heat
wave. The heat also killed an estimated 16,000 livestock in the Central
Valley as well as some 1 million poultry. By the end of the month the
heat wave left 164 dead in California and moved east.
(SSFC, 7/30/06, p.A12)(WSJ, 8/2/06, p.A1)(SFC,
8/3/06, p.C2)
2006 Jul 27, In Richmond,
California, police and federal agents arrested Jose Santos Bonilla
(33), a suspected leader of the local MS-13 street gang. The gang was
in a street war with Richmond Sureno Trece (RST).
(SFC, 7/28/06, p.B5)
2006 Jul 27, Sharman Networks
Ltd., the company behind Kazaa file-sharing software, said it will
redesign its software and pay over $115 million in penalties to leading
music and movie companies.
(SFC, 7/28/06, p.D3)
2006 Jul 27, Robert Charles
Browne, serving a life sentence in Colorado for murdering a teenage
girl, claimed responsibility for as many as 48 slayings across the
country dating back from 1970 until his arrest in 1995. The other
claims include 17 murders in Louisiana, nine in Colorado, seven in
Texas, five in Arkansas, three in Mississippi, two each in California,
New Mexico and Oklahoma, and one in Washington state.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 27, In California the
Trust for Public Land donated 6,845 acres of coastline property north
of Santa Cruz to the state for public use. The Coast Dairies property
was initially settled by the Moretti and Respini families in 1866.
(SFC, 7/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 27, Matthew Amorello,
chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, resigned in the wake
of problems with Boston’s Big Dig tunnels.
(SFC, 7/28/06, p.A10)
2006 Jul 27, Intel introduced a
new line of microprocessors called Core 2 Duos. New features included
higher performance and lower power consumption.
(SFC, 7/28/06, p.D1)
2006 Jul 27, Ayman al-Zawahri,
Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, issued a worldwide call for Muslims to rise up
in a holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza
until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq."
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, A fire raged through
a rain forest along Brazil's eastern coastline, burning up to 25,000
acres of trees.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, Canadian police said
they had busted two cross-country drug smuggling schemes, seizing 110
kilograms (243 pounds) of cocaine worth C$8.8 million ($7.8 million)
and charging six people.
(Reuters, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, China’s government
introduced new taxes on real estate to discourage speculation. State
media said flooding and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Kaemi have
killed at least 25 people in southern China, including six who died
when a torrent of water washed away a military barracks.
(AP, 7/27/06)(SFC, 7/28/06, p.D1)
2006 Jul 27, In Kinshasa, Congo, 3
policemen and a civilian were killed in clashes outside a stadium where
40,000 supporters greeted Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba, a rebel
leader turned presidential candidate.
(AFP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, The European Court of
Human Rights found Russia guilty of violating the "right to life" of a
young Chechen who disappeared after a Russian general ordered him shot.
Khadzimurat Yandiyev (25) was last seen in the hands of Russian troops
in February 2000.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, French health
officials said 64 people have died in a heat wave that has gripped the
country for nearly two weeks.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, Georgia’s Pres.
Saakashvili said his troops had established control over the Kodori
Gorge area after Emzar Kvitsiani, a former presidential envoy, said he
was reactivating a local militia.
(SFC, 7/28/06, p.A3)
2006 Jul 27, Greek authorities
said 5 schoolchildren have been charged with killing an 11-year-old boy
who disappeared five months ago. Alex Mechisvili dropped from sight in
the northern town of Veroia. His body has not been found.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, Former Haitian PM
Yvon Neptune was released from jail, more than two years after his
arrest on charges of orchestrating the killing of political opponents
at the start of a rebellion that engulfed the country.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, In India police
arrested two more men in connection with Bombay's deadly train blasts,
bringing to eight the number of people detained by investigators since
the explosions killed more than 200 people earlier this month.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 27, In Iraq a rocket and
mortar barrage followed by a car bomb blasted an upscale, mostly Shiite
district of Baghdad, killing 32 people and wounding 153. 4 US Marines
died in action in western Anbar province. A Salvadoran soldier was
killed in Iraq, the 2nd soldier from El Salvador to be killed in the
conflict in 8 days. Armed men in Iraqi army uniforms and driving Iraqi
army vehicles stole $1.35 million in Iraqi currency in West Baghdad.
Gunmen killed 3 men working for a foreign security company in Baghdad’s
Mansour neighborhood. The bodies of at least 19 men, shot in the head
and bearing signs of torture, were found in various parts of Baghdad.
(AP, 7/27/06)(AP, 7/28/06)(SFC, 7/28/06,
p.A3)(Reuters, 7/29/06)
2006 Jul 27, Top Israeli Cabinet
ministers decided not to expand the country's Lebanon offensive but
ordered the call up of thousands of additional reserve soldiers to
boost the campaign. The decision came as Israeli jets pounded across
Lebanon, extending their air campaign.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, The Israeli air force
fired missiles at a target in eastern Gaza City, wounding 15 people, at
least one of them critically. 5 Palestinians were killed including a
woman (75) and a child. A Palestinian was shot and killed in Jerusalem
after he attacked a police patrol. The severely burned body of man,
thought to be Israeli, was found in the West Bank.
(AP, 7/27/06)(SFC, 7/28/06, p.A14)
2006 Jul 27, Japan said it will
allow US beef imports, suspended for the past six months, to restart
from all but one of 35 US beef processing plants authorized by the US
government as suppliers to Japan.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, Malawi's former
President Bakili Muluzi was arrested on corruption charges related to
millions of dollars in donor funds that allegedly ended up in his
personal account. He was released on bail after being questioned.
Muluzi faced 42 counts of theft, corruption and breach of trust.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 27, President-elect Alan
Garcia made good on a pledge to draw talent from across the political
spectrum in his 16-member Cabinet by appointing six women, including
Peru's first female justice and interior ministers.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, The head of Russia's
state arms-trading agency said that Russia has signed contracts with
Venezuela for 24 military planes and 53 helicopters.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, A Russian rocket that
was to put 18 satellites in orbit crashed shortly after liftoff. The
Dnepr rocket crashed about 15 miles south of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan. The rocket was carrying a Russian satellite and 17 from
other countries, including the United States and Italy.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, At least 20 members
of Somalia's parliament resigned, accusing the country's virtually
powerless government of failing to bring peace. The parliament is
supposed to have 275 member but 16 members have defected to the Islamic
militia and other seats remain unfilled after members' deaths.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 27, Police found the
bodies of four Africans on a boat packed with 26 other would-be
immigrants that was intercepted off Spain's Canary Islands.
(AP, 7/28/06)
2006 Jul 27, Zambian opposition
leaders were scrambling after President Levy Mwanawasa called elections
for Sept. 28 and dissolved the parliament and Cabinet.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2007 Jul 27, The United States and
India said they have worked out differences blocking the sharing of
civilian nuclear fuel and technology, hailing a "historic milestone"
accord that would reverse three decades of American anti-proliferation
policy.
(AP, 7/27/07)
2007 Jul 27, Joe Nacchio, the
former Qwest Communications chief who was forced to resign during a
multibillion-dollar accounting scandal, was sentenced to six years in
prison for illegally selling $52 million in stock while not telling
investors that his telecommunications company faced serious financial
risks. On March 17, 2008, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
overturned his conviction on the basis of defense expert witness
testimony that was improperly excluded, and ordered a new trial before
a different trial judge.
(AP,
7/27/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio)
2007 Jul 27, California’s top
court ruled that police can no longer seize vehicles of suspects in
drug or prostitution arrests.
(WSJ, 1/28/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 27, SF Mayor Newsom
signed a $6.06 billion spending package, the largest budget in SF
history.
(SFC, 7/28/07, p.B3)
2007 Jul 27, The DJIA ended down
over 500 points in its worst week in 5 years.
(SFC, 7/28/07, p.C1)
2007 Jul 27, In Phoenix, Arizona,
2 news helicopters covering a police chase on live television collided
and crashed to the ground, killing all four people on board.
(AP, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 27, Afghan and NATO
troops over the last 24 hours clashed with Taliban insurgents and
called in airstrikes, killing at least 50 suspected militants and
dozens of civilians. The third British soldier to die in three days in
southern Afghanistan was killed in a rocket attack.
(AP, 7/27/07)(AFP, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 27, Mohamed Haneef (27),
an Indian doctor, was freed from custody after Australia's chief
prosecutor said that a charge linking him to failed terrorist bombings
in Britain was a mistake.
(AP, 7/27/07)
2007 Jul 27, In China 2 men were
sentenced to death for masterminding a plan to steal oil from an
underwater pipeline, a botched plot that caused an estimated $53
million in damages.
(AP, 7/28/07)
2007 Jul 27, French judges filed
preliminary charges against former PM Dominique de Villepin for his
suspected role in a smear campaign that targeted Nicolas Sarkozy before
he became president.
(AP, 7/27/07)
2007 Jul 27, A fierce gunbattle
broke out after a joint US-Iraqi force arrested a rogue Shiite militia
leader in the holy city of Karbala, some 50 miles south of Baghdad,
leading to an airstrike and the deaths of some 17 militants. A truck
bomb in Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhood of Karrada killed at least 105
people and injured 193.
(AP, 7/27/07)(AP, 7/28/07)(SFC, 9/20/07, p.A17)
2007 Jul 27, The Israeli army
suspended an officer and five soldiers involved in wounding a
Palestinian man July 26 in the southern West Bank and put all of their
unit's operational duties on hold.
(AP, 7/27/07)
2007 Jul 27, Pakistan’s Pres.
Musharraf held secret talks in Abu Dhabi with former PM Benazir Bhutto.
In Islamabad hundreds of students clashed with security forces and a
nearby bombing killed 13 people during the reopening of the Red Mosque
for the first time since a bloody army raid to oust Islamic militants
from the complex. In Quetta gunmen opened fire on the vehicle of Raziq
Bugti, the official spokesman for a provincial government in Pakistan
on the border with Afghanistan, killing him.
(AP, 7/27/07)(AP, 7/28/07)(SSFC, 7/29/07, p.A14)
2007 Jul 27, Victor Frunza (72), a
Romanian anti-communist dissident and writer, died in Denmark of a
heart attack. He was forced to leave Romania in 1980 after writing a
letter critical of the communist regime led by dictator Nicolae
Ceausescu. While in Romania, Frunza secretly wrote a history of
communism in the country that was published in Denmark in 1984. He also
wrote essays championing human rights and published a political
magazine.
(AP, 7/30/07)
2007 Jul 27, Russia said it
planned to send a small submarine to the ocean floor under the North
Pole to stake a claim to the region.
(WSJ, 1/28/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 27, Sudan said it would
appeal a US ruling ordering it to pay $7.9 million in compensation to
the families of the 17 sailors killed in the October 2000 bombing of
the USS Cole in Yemen. The bombing was carried out by two Yemeni
militants with Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network who had trained in
Sudan. US federal Judge Robert Doumar ruled in mid-March that Sudan
should be held accountable for the attack, and on July 25 ruled that it
must pay compensation to the families.
(AP, 7/27/07)
2007 Jul 27, Zimbabwe's former
finance minister Chris Kuruneri was acquitted by the high court for
allegedly smuggling money abroad to build a house in South Africa.
(AFP, 7/28/07)
2008 Jul 27, In Knoxville,
Tennessee, Jim D. Adkisson (58) entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian
Universalist Church during a children's performance and killed 2
people. In 2009 Adkisson pleaded guilty to killing 2 people and
wounding 6 others because he hated the church’s liberal politics.
(AP, 7/28/08)(SFC, 7/28/08, p.A2)(SFC, 2/10/09, p.A7)
2008 Jul 27, In Afghanistan some
50 to 70 insurgents were killed when helicopter gunships and ground
fighting repulsed an attack by about 100 rebels in the Spera district
of Khost province near the Pakistan border. 2 Policemen were killed in
the attack. Elsewhere in Khost province, a suicide bomber blew himself
up inside a tent of security guards, killing one of them and injuring
six more. NATO troops killed two children in southern Afghanistan by
opening fire on a car that they feared was about to attack their convoy.
(AFP, 7/27/08)(WSJ, 7/28/08, p.A10)(AP, 7/28/08)
2008 Jul 27, In Antigua newlyweds
Benjamin and Catherine Mullany, both 31, were attacked inside their
cottage at the Cocos Hotel resort in the island's southwest. Both were
shot in the head. Catherine was killed. A comatose Benjamin was flown
back to Britain where he was pronounced dead on August 3. On August 18
a 20-year old man and 17-year-old male were taken to a magistrate court
in St. John's and were charged with murder, robbery and receiving
stolen goods.
(AP, 8/2/08)(AP, 8/4/08)(AP, 8/19/08)
2008 Jul 27, Cambodian PM Hun
Sen's party claimed it won a sweeping victory in polls overshadowed by
a military standoff with Thailand. Tens of thousands of opposition
supporters were excluded from the electoral register.
(AFP, 7/27/08)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.45)
2008 Jul 27, In Egypt Youssef
Chahine (1926), filmmaker, died in Cairo. His 28 films included “The
Blazing Sun” (1954) with Omar Sharif. His 1994 film “The Emigrant,”
about the Old Testament figure of Joseph, was denounced by militant
Islamists and banned.
(SFC, 7/29/08, p.B5)
2008 Jul 27, Iran hanged 29 people
at dawn after they had been convicted of murder, drug trafficking and
other crimes.
(AP, 7/27/08)
2008 Jul 27, In Iraq gunmen hiding
in reeds in Madain, a Sunni town south of Baghdad, killed seven Shiite
pilgrims as they were marching to a shrine in the capital for a major
holiday.
(AP, 7/27/08)
2008 Jul 27, Israeli troops killed
a Hamas militant in the West Bank town of Hebron. Troops exchanged
gunfire with the man (25) for 12 hours before bulldozing the structure.
(AP, 7/27/08)
2008 Jul 27, Mexico City residents
voted against the president's proposal to give private companies a
bigger role in the country's state-run oil industry in a nonbinding
referendum.
(AP, 7/28/08)
2008 Jul 27, Ram Baran Yadav,
Nepal's first president, appealed for rival parties in the
newly-republican nation to form a consensus government and end weeks of
political deadlock, in his maiden address to the people.
(AFP, 7/27/08)
2008 Jul 27, Spain's National
Court jailed seven people on charges of belonging to a militant cell of
the Basque separatist group ETA.
(AP, 7/27/08)
2008 Jul 27, In Sri Lanka at least
16 different battles broke out in the Welioya and Vavuniya regions,
some of them sparked by government attacks on the rebels' bunker lines.
The rebels also carried out at least five roadside bombings against
troops. The violence killed 18 rebels and four soldiers.
(AP, 7/28/08)
2008 Jul 27, In Istanbul, Turkey,
bomb blasts killed 17 people in a crowded square in the residential
neighborhood of Gungoren. 5 of the dead were children. Turkish
warplanes bombed 12 Kurdish rebel targets on Mount Qandil in northern
Iraq.
(AP, 7/28/08)(AP, 7/27/08)
2008 Jul 27, Floods in western
Ukraine killed 22 people, including 4 children, and 5 in neighboring
Romania after 5 days of nonstop rain. A senior government official
described them as the worst in a century. Heavy rain in the
southwestern Carpathian Mountains caused the Prut and Dniestr rivers to
overflow. The flooding affected more than 40,000 houses and led to the
evacuation of some 20,000 people.
(Reuters, 7/27/08)(AP, 7/28/08)
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