BIG EDIT: Everything below happened on July 28 not 27. I suffered a serious time warp
July 27 or rather
July 28
1794 Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
1821 Josι de San Martνn declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
1945 A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
1976 The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1996 The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
2001 Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
2005 The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
2005 Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in
south Birmingham and Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
Births
1866 Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
1922 Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born Swiss undersea explorer (d. 2008)
1929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
(source: Wikipedia)