27 Julie

The 27t o Julie is the 208t day o the year (209t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 157 days ti come.

Events

1990: Citroen 2CV

2012 Simmer Olympics: Scots cyclist Chris Hoy leads the Great Breetain team

• 1689 - The Battle o Killiecrankie ends.
• 1694 - A Ryal Chairter in granted tae the Bank o Ingland.
• 1830 - The Julie Revolution stairts against Charles X o Fraunce.
• 1890 - Vincent van Gogh shuits hisself.
• 1924 - End o the 1924 Simmer Olympics in Paris.
• 1940 - The cartoon character Bugs Bunny maks his debut.
• 1945 - Clement Attlee becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1953 - End o the Korean War.
• 1955 - The Allied occupation o Austrick ends.
• 1967 - Homosexuality is pairtially decriminalisit in Ingland an Wales.
• 1990 - Belaroushie declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
• 1990 - The last Citroen 2CV rolls aff the assembly line in Portugal.
• 1996 - A bomb is detonatit at the 1996 Simmer Olympics in Atlanta.
• 2002 - The Lviv airshow disaster in Ukraine kills 85 fowk.
• 2012 - Stairt o the 2012 Simmer Olympics in Lunnon.
• 2018 - Julie 2018 lunar eclipse.

Births

Alexandre Dumas, fils

Jean Baudrillard

• 1452 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke o Milan (d. 1508)
• 1768 - Charlotte Corday, assassin o Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
• 1773 - Princess Luisa o Naples (d. 1802)
• 1824 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (d. 1895)
• 1835 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer an poet (d. 1907)
• 1881 - Hans Fischer, German organic chemist (d. 1945)
• 1928 - Joseph Kittinger, American pilot
• 1929 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher (d. 2007)
• 1944 - Bobbie Gentry, American sangster
• 1951 - Roseanna Cunningham, Scots politeecian
• 1959 - Siobhan Redmond, Scots actress
• 1960 - Emily Thornberry, Inglis politeecian
• 1974 - Eason Chan, Hong Kong sangster
• 1975 - Alex Rodriguez, American basebaw player
• 1977 - Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Erse actor
• 1987 - Marek Hamsik, Slovakie fitbawer
• 1988 - John Hardie, New Zealand-Scots rugby player
• 1990 - Indiana Evans, Australie actress
• 1993 - Jordan Spieth, American gowfer
• 1997 - Craig Wighton, Scots fitbawer

Daiths

• 1689 - John Graham, 1st Viscoont Dundee, Scots sodger an nobleman (b. 1648)
• 1841 - Mikhail Lermontov, Roushie writer an penter (b. 1814)
• 1844 - John Dalton, Inglis pheesicist an scientist (b. 1776)
• 1873 - Fyodor Tyutchev, Roushie poet (b. 1803)
• 1932 - Airchduchess Gisella o Austrick (b. 1856)
• 1946 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
• 1970 - António de Oliveira Salazar, Preses o Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1980 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah o Iran (b. 1919)
• 1982 - William Wyler, American film director, producer an screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 2003 - Bob Hope, Inglis-American actor an comedian (b. 1903)
• 2015 - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Preses o Indie (b. 1931)
• 2016 - Piet de Jong, Prime meenister o the Netherlands (b. 1915)
• 2016 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish componer (b. 1928)
• 2019 - John Robert Schrieffer, American pheesicist (b. 1931)

Halidays

• Naitional Sleepy Head Day (Finland)
• Victory Day (North Korea)