Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 27

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  Visby Cathedral
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  Madonna with members of her tour crew
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  Charles Fryatt
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  Frederick Banting
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  Maximilien Robespierre
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  An AS-350, the model of the helicopters that collided
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  Signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement in Panmunjom
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  The Joint Security Area in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
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  King Philip II of France
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  Gang of white people looking for African Americans during the Chicago Race Riot
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  Six molecules of insulin arranged in a hexamer
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  Comet 1 prototype
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  Erwin Rommel and aides
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  Battle of Bouvines
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  2015 Aston Martin DB9 GT
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  Edna O'Brien at the Hay Festival in 2016

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
José Celso Barbosa Day in Puerto Rico	Lots of hobby websites including wordpress, angelfire refs
1663 – The Parliament of England passed the second of the Navigation Acts, which required that all goods bound for the American colonies had to be sent in English ships from English ports.	needs more footnotes
1694 – A royal charter was granted to the Bank of England as the English government's banker.	refimprove section
1789 – The U.S. State Department, then known as the Department of Foreign Affairs, became the first federal agency created under the Constitution.	refimprove section
1794 – The National Convention ordered the arrest and execution of Reign of Terror leader Maximilien Robespierre after he encouraged the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the French Revolution".	lots of CN tags (6)
1865 – A group of Welsh settlers arrived at Chubut Valley in Argentina's Patagonia region.	needs more footnotes
1880 – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan defeated the British Army near Maiwand, Afghanistan.	refimprove section
1914 – Felix Manalo established the modern-day Iglesia ni Cristo religion, an independent, nontrinitarian Christian church, in the Philippines.	recentism
1921 – University of Toronto researchers led by Frederick Banting proved that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.	lots of CN tags in one section
1940 – Bugs Bunny debuted in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare.	refimprove
1996 – A pipe bomb exploded during the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., killing two people and injuring 111 others.	refimprove section
2002 – A Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft crashed during an aerobatics presentation at an airshow near Lviv, Ukraine, killing 77 people and injuring more than 500 others.	Short
[[Joanna I of Naples|Template:Nowrap of Naples]] |d|1382	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery |b|1851|	Lots of cn
[[Triple H|Template:Nowrap]] |b|1969	refimprove section (filmography)

Eligible

• 678 – Unable to penetrate the city's defences, the Sclaveni gave up their siege of the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.
• 1054 – During his invasion of Scotland, Siward, Earl of Northumbria, defeated Macbeth, King of Scotland, in an engagement north of the Firth of Forth.
• 1214 – Philip II of France decisively won the Battle of Bouvines, the conclusive battle of the 1213–1214 Anglo-French War.
• 1225 – Saint Mary's Church on Gotland, later to become Visby Cathedral (pictured), was consecrated.
• 1302 – Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The Ottoman sultanate gained its first major victory against the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Bapheus in Bithynia.
• 1778 – The Battle of Ushant, the first encounter between the French and British fleets in the American Revolutionary War, ended indecisively and led to political disputes in both countries.
• 1916 – First World War: British mariner Charles Fryatt was executed in Bruges, Belgium, after a German court-martial found him guilty of being a franc-tireur.
• 1919 – Red Summer: Race riots erupted in Chicago after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries.
• 1942 – Second World War: Allied forces halted the Axis invasion of Egypt at the First Battle of El Alamein.
• 1943 – As the Surprise Hurricane struck Texas, a United States Army Air Forces pilot made the first reconnaissance flight into a hurricane.
• 1949 – The world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production, the de Havilland Comet, had its maiden flight.
• 1953 – An armistice was signed (pictured) to end hostilities in the Korean War, officially making the division of Korea indefinite by creating a 4 km wide (2.5 mi) demilitarized zone across the Korean Peninsula.
• 1955 – After straying into Bulgarian airspace, El Al Flight 402 was shot down by two [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15|Template:Nowrap]] fighter jets, resulting in the deaths of all 58 on board.
• 1983 – American musician Madonna released her self-titled debut album, which set the standard for the genre of dance-pop for decades.
• 1990 – Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical Islamic group, began a coup attempt against the government of Trinidad and Tobago by taking hostages, including Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson, before surrendering five days later.
• 2010 – Police in Tokyo found the mummified remains of Sogen Kato, thought to have died in 1978, leading to widespread inquiries into the status of isolated elderly people in Japan.
• 2016 – The last nine Aston Martin DB9 units rolled off the production line, marking the end of a twelve-year manufacturing period.
• Born/died: | [[Conrad II of Italy|Template:Nowrap of Italy]] |d|1101| Frances Stewart, Duchess of Lennox|b|1578| Jeanne Baret|b|1740| Elizabeth Plankinton|b|1853| Iwane Matsui|b|1878| Kenneth Bainbridge|b|1904| Emil Theodor Kocher|d|1917|Wu Zhonghua|b|1917|Norman Lear|b|1922| Ferruccio Busoni|d|1924| Neil Brooks|b|1962| Alfred Duraiappah|d|1975| Shannon Moore|b|1979| Elizabeth Rona|d|1981| Max Scherzer|b|1984| Maya Ali|b|1989| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam|d|2015|

Notes

• Quietly Confident Quartet appears on July 24 and Ian Thorpe appears on July 28, so Neil Brooks should not appear in the same year
• Is it possible to have at least 2 that are not war/violence/coup or invasion?

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• 1689 – First Jacobite rising: Scottish and Irish Jacobites defeated Williamite forces at Killiecrankie, Scotland.
• 1955 – The Austrian State Treaty came into effect, ending the Allied occupation of Austria, although the country was not free of Allied troops until October.
• 1965 – Mattachine Midwest, a gay rights organization in Chicago, held its first meeting.
• 2007 – While covering a police pursuit in Phoenix, Arizona, two news helicopters collided in mid-air, killing both crews.
• 2020 – A major oil spill from the Colonial Pipeline was discovered in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (system map pictured).