US General Mark Clark signs the Korean armistice agreement, July 27, 1953

Today in History

• Macbeth is defeated at Dunsinane (1054)
• Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 “enemies of the Revolution” (1794)
• The first Geneva Convention is signed (1929)
• An armistice ends active fighting in the Korean War (1953)
• Watergate scandal: The House Judiciary Committee recommends the first article of impeachment against Richard Nixon (1974)

Birthdays

• Jeremiah Dixon, surveyor who gave his name to the Mason-Dixon Line (1733)
• Charlotte Corday, assassin (1768)
• Hilaire Belloc, writer (1870)
• Geoffrey de Havilland, aircraft designer (1882)
• Leo Durocher, baseball manager (1905)
• Keenan Wynn, actor (1916)
• Norman Lear, television producer (1922)
• Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (1938)
• Peggy Fleming, figure skater (1948)
• Maureen McGovern, singer (1949)
• Alex Rodriguez, baseball player (1975)

Deaths

• Gertrude Stein, writer (1946)
• Joe Tinker, baseball player (1948)
• Claire Chennault, leader of the Flying Tigers (1958)
• Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (1980)
• James Mason, actor (1984)
• Smoky Joe Wood, baseball player (1985)
• Frank Zamboni, inventor (1988)
• Bob Hope, comedian and actor (2003)

Holidays and Celebrations

• National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day (US)
• Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War (North Korea)
• Araw ng Iglesia ni Cristo (Philippines)
• José Celso Barbosa Day (Puerto Rico)
• Ngay Thuong Binh Liet Si (Vietnam)
• National Scotch Day (US)
• Walk on Stilts Day

July 27 is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years). There are 157 days remaining until the end of the year.