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Events on July 27

• 1794 Thermidor: Maximilien de Robespierre and his supporters, the Montagnards, are overthrown by the Thermidorians on 9 Thermidor after his reign of terror intensified during the French Revolution on 22 Prairial and he had explicitly threatened some of them with death on the previous day.
• 1900 At the send-off of a regiment of German soldiers, Kaiser Wilhelm II delivers his “Hun Speech,” in which he calls on the German troops to embark on a ruthless campaign of revenge to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in Imperial China.
• 1921 The Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best succeed in extracting insulin, which they call Isletin. In the same year, Nicolae Paulescu has his manufacturing process for the hormone patented in Romania. He had already succeeded in obtaining insulin from pancreatic tissue in 1916.
• 1940 In the animated film A Wild Hare, directed by Tex Avery, Bugs Bunny makes his first film appearance in the form now known.
• 1953 The Korean War ends after three years with an armistice agreement between the United Nations and North Korea, signed in Panmunjom.
• 1955 With the entry into force of the Austrian State Treaty, Austria regains its full sovereignty as a state.
• 1964 The Deutsche Bundesbank issues the first banknotes in the denomination of 1,000 Deutsche Marks, the highest denomination it has issued. The notes feature a male portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Limburg Cathedral.
• 1983 The American pop artist Madonna releases her self-titled debut album.
• 1990 In Mangualde, Portugal, the last Citroën 2CV, nicknamed “Duck,” rolls off the production line.
• 1997 The racing cyclist Jan Ullrich becomes the first German to win the Tour de France.
• 2000 In a bombing attack, a pipe bomb filled with TNT explodes at Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station. Ten people are injured, some of them in critical condition. A woman in the fifth month of pregnancy loses her unborn child.
• 2018 The lunar eclipse of this day is the longest of the 21st century. At the same time, Mars is also at opposition, which happens only every 25,000 years.

Born on July 27

• 1871 Ernst Zermelo, German mathematician
• 1881 Hans Fischer, German chemist and physician, Nobel Prize winner
• 1882 Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer
• 1900 Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, German actor
• 1940 Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer
• 1940 Jonny Hill, Austrian musician, lyricist, producer and entertainer
• 1961 Jochen Malmsheimer, German cabaret artist
• 1970 Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Danish actor
• 1970 Anja Kohl, German journalist and television presenter
• 1990 David Storl, German shot putter

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „27. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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