On This Day:
Sunday July 27, 2014 This is the 208th day of the year, with 157 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: brain The brain triples its size during the first year of life - a growth rate unique to humans; between the ages of 20-75, it is estimated that an average of 50,000 neurons atrophy or die each day.
Holidays Feast day of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, St. Theobald of Marly, the Martyrs of Salsette, Saints Aurelia, Natalia and their Companions, and St. Pantaleon.
National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day.
Events 1789 - Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the Department of State.
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, was overthrown and arrested by the National Convention.
1866 - Cyrus W. Field finally succeeded in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.
1921 - Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolated insulin.
1940 - Bugs Bunny made his debut in the animated cartoon "A Wild Hare."
1953 - Representatives of the United Nations, Korea, and China signed the Korean War armistice at Panmunjon, Korea.
1976 - Air Force veteran Ray Brennan became the first person to die of so-called "Legionnaire's Disease" following an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., by President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
1996 - In Atlanta, Georgia, the XXVI Summer Olympiad was disrupted by the explosion of a nail-laden pipe bomb in Centennial Olympic Park, which killed one and injured more than 100.
2005 - Ahmed Ressam, aka "The Millennium Bomber," was sentenced to 22 years in prison for a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999.
2007 - Two news helicopters collide while covering a police car chase in Phoenix, Arizona.
Births 1824 - Alexandre (Dumas Fils) Dumas, French novelist and playwright.
1906 - Leo Durocher, American baseball player, manager.
1916 - Keenan Wynn, American actor.
1922 - Norman Lear, American Emmy Award-winning producer.
1944 - Jean-Marie Leblanc, a French retired professional road bicycle racer who was general director of the Tour de France from 1989 to 2005.
Deaths 1946 - Gertude Stein, avant-garde American novelist and poet.
1988 - Frank Zamboni, Jr., U.S. inventor whose most famous invention is the modern ice resurfacer.
2001 - Leon Russell Wilkeson, the bass guitarist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 until his death.
2003 - Bob Hope (born Leslie Townes Hope), London-born American comedian and actor.
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