Today in History: July 27, Korean War hostilities end

In current times is Sunday July the th day of There are days left in the year Nowadays in history On July the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed at Panmunjom ending three years of fighting on the Korean peninsula that killed an estimated million people Also on this date In President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs forerunner of the Department of State Related Articles Official fired during Trump s first term appointed president of embattled US Institute of Peace At D-Day veteran looks forward to a long-delayed bar mitzvah Landlord jailed for decades in hate-crime attack on Palestinian American family has died Trump says Japan will invest billion in US at his direction It may not be a sure thing The House is looking into the Epstein review Here s what could happen next In Cyrus W Field finished laying out the first flourishing underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe In during the first official test of the U S Army s first airplane Orville Wright flew himself and a traveler Lt Frank Lahm above Fort Myer Virginia for one hour and minutes In Billboard magazine published its first music popularity chart listing best-selling retail records In first place was I ll Never Smile Again recorded by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with featured vocalist Frank Sinatra In the House Judiciary Committee voted - to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon charging he had personally engaged in a unit of conduct designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate situation In on day of the Iranian hostage dilemma the deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital outside Cairo Egypt at age In -year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a department store in Hollywood Fla and was later murdered Adam s father John Walsh subsequently became a sufferers rights activist and in launched and hosted the television show America s Preponderance Craved In terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park directly killing one person and injuring Anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph later pleaded guilty to the bombing exonerating safety guard Richard Jewell who had been wrongly suspected In Britain opened its Olympic Games in a celebration of Old England and new even cheekily featuring stunt doubles for Queen Elizabeth II and fictional special agent James Bond parachuting into Olympic Stadium In shield forces and armed men clashed with supporters of Egypt s ousted president Mohammed Morsi killing at least people In 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 In the White House released that North Korea had returned the remains of what were deduced to be U S servicemen killed during the Korean War with a U S military plane making a rare trip into North Korea to retrieve cases of remains In the world s biggest COVID- vaccine scrutiny began with the first of planned supporters helping to test shots created by the National Institutes of Vitality and Moderna Inc In American gymnast Simone Biles pulled out of the gymnastics unit competition at the Tokyo Olympics to focus on her mental well-being saying she realized following a shaky vault that she wasn t in the right headspace to compete The present day s Birthdays Singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry is Actor-director Betty Thomas is Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming is Singer Maureen McGovern is Comedian-actor-writer Carol Leifer is Comedian Bill Engvall is Actor-martial artist Donnie Yen is Jazz singer Karrin Allyson is Rock musician Juliana Hatfield is Former professional wrestler Triple H is Actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau NIH -koh-lye KAH -stur WAHL -dah is Comedian Maya Rudolph is Rock musician Abe Cunningham Deftones is Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn is Former MLB All-Star Alex Rodriguez is Actor Jonathan Rhys rees Meyers is Actor comedian Heidi Gardner TV Saturday Night Live is Actor Taylor Schilling is MLB All-Star pitcher Max Scherzer is Golfer Jordan Spieth is