Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later. Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose emotional intensity and bold use of…
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27 July 1890
Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later. Vincent van Gogh’s death has been widely attributed to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. On July…
27 July 1929
The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations. The 1929 conventions I mentioned earlier were actually the two…
27 July 1949
Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner took place on 27 July 1949. Its first commercial flight was not until 2…
27 July 1996
In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing’]
27 July 1865
Welsh settlers to settle in Chubut in Argentina. The first group of settlers, nearly 200 people gathered from all over Wales, but mainly north and…
27 July 1694
A Royal charter is granted to the Bank of England. The revolution of 1688, which brought William and Mary to the throne, gave England political…