Es passierte an einem 27 July

1794 : Robespierre arrested


On July 27, 1794, the head of the Committee of Public Safety of the National Convention and the instigatorof the Reign of Terror, Maximilien Robespierre was arrested along with his close followers. He was guillotined the following day. During the Terror, 300,000 people were arrested and nearly 30,000 were killed. Robespierre was a leader among the most popular of the French Revolution and a staunch advocate of the people rights prior to violate these rights to get rid of all his opponents when he came to power.

1909 : Orville Wright


On July 27, 1909, Orville Wright beat the world record in an airplane flying 1 hour and 12 minutes with a passenger over a distance of 80 km.

1953 : End of the Korean War


On July 27, 1953, North Korea, China and the United Nations signed the Panmunjom Armistice ending the Korean War. Panmunjom is a village on the border between the two belligerents. South Korea did not sign but pledges to honor the agreement. The agreement provided for the separation of Korea along the 38th parallel where a demilitarized zone is defined.
In fact, after three years of war and nearly 3 million dead, we return to the exact situation as it was before the conflict.

1974 : Vote of the first article of impeachment against Nixon


On July 27, 1974, in the Watergate Scandal, the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted the first article of impeachment against President Nixon for obstructing justice for refusing to provide tape recording which could prove his involvement in an attempt to block investigations for false national security reasons.

2002 : Air show disaster in Ukraine


On July 27, 2002, a Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 crashed into the crowd at Sknyliv airfield near Lviv in Ukraine. 77 people were killed and over 500 injured.

Zitat des Tages : 27 July

Maximilien Robespierre
Pity is treason.

Geburtstage : 27 July

Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (1777)
Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (1824)
Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1835)
Enrique Granados, Catalan composer (1867)
Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (1881)
Julien Gracq, French writer (1910)
Bourvil, French actor and singer (1917)
Jack Higgins, English writer (1929)
Don Galloway, American actor (1937)
Gary Gygax, Game designer, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (1938)
Isabelle Aubret, French singer (1938)
Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer (1940)
Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist (1944)
Peggy Fleming, American figure skater (1948)
Robert Rankin, English novelist (1949)
Christopher Dean, English ice dancer (1958)
Julian McMahon, Australian actor (1968)
Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones) (1973)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor (1977)
Sidney Govou, French footballer (1979)
Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer (1983)

Sie haben uns verlassen 27 July

Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (1759)
John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (1844)
Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist (1924)
Richard Aldington, English writer (1962)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (1980)
William Wyler, American director (1981)
James Mason, English actor (1984)
Frank Zamboni, Inventor of the modern ice resurfacer (1988)
Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (2001)
Bob Hope, American comedian (2003)
Youssef Chahine, Egyptian director (2007)

Tipp des Tages : 27 July

Ensure the candied fruits do not fall at the bottom of the mold


To prevent the candied fruits to be found at the bottom of the pan when making a fruit cake, you must roll the fruit in flour before adding them to the dough.

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