Today in History: 07-27-14

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Sunday, July 27, is the 208th day of 2014. There are 157 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to adopt the
first of three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon, charging he had personally
engaged in a course of conduct designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
On this date:
In 1214, France prevailed in the Battle of Bouvines over the forces of the Holy Roman Empire and England.

In 1789, President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs,
forerunner of the Department of State.
In 1909, during the first official test of the U.S. Army’s first airplane, Orville Wright flew himself
and a passenger, Lt. Frank Lahm, above Fort Myer, Virginia, for one hour and 12 minutes.
In 1921, Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeeded in isolating
the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto.
In 1942, during World War II, the First Battle of El Alamein in Egypt ended in a draw as Allied forces
stalled the progress of Axis invaders. (The Allies went on to win a clear victory over the Axis in the
Second Battle of El Alamein later that year.)
In 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.
In 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president on the first ballot at the
Republican national convention in Chicago.
In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban
rioting, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown said in Washington that violence was "as American
as cherry pie."
In 1980, on day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital
outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60.
In 1996, terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park, directly
killing one person and injuring 111. (Anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph later pleaded guilty to the
bombing.)

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