Today In History
Today is Tuesday, July 27, the 208th day of 2021. There are 157 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1996: Terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park.
ON THIS DATE
› 1866: Cyrus W. Field finished laying out the first successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe (a previous cable in 1858 burned out after only a few weeks’ use).
› 1909: During the first official test of the U.S. Army’s first airplane, Orville Wright flew himself and a passenger, Lt. Frank Lahm, above Fort Myer, Virginia, for one hour and 12 minutes.
› 1921: Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeeded in isolating the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto.
› 1953: The Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.
› 1995: The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington by President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Youngsam.
› 2015: The Boy Scouts of America ended its blanket ban on gay adult leaders while allowing church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion for religious reasons.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
TV producer Norman Lear is 99. Actor John Pleshette is 79. Actor-director Betty Thomas is
74. Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming is 73. Singer Maureen McGovern is 72. Rock musician Tris Imboden (formerly with Chicago) is 70. Actor Roxanne Hart is 67. Comedian-actor-writer Carol Leifer is
65. Comedian Bill Engvall is 64. Jazz singer Karrin Allyson is 59. Country singer Stacy Dean Campbell is 54. Rock singer Juliana Hatfield is
54. Actor Julian McMahon is 53. Actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is 51. Comedian Maya Rudolph is 49. Rock musician Abe Cunningham is 48. Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn is 47. Former MLB AllStar Alex Rodriguez is
46. Actor Seamus Dever is 45. Actor Martha Madison is 44. Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is 44. Actor/ comedian Heidi Gardner is 38. Actor Blair Redford is 38. MLB All-Star pitcher Max Scherzer is 37. Singer Cheyenne Kimball is 31. Golfer Jordan Spieth is 28. Actor Alyvia Alyn Lind is 14.