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    History in 27th Jul

  • Impeachment of Nixon begins

    The House of Representatives drafts its first article of impeachment against President Nixon.

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  • Armistice for Korea

    The Korean War armistice, reached between the United States, China, North Korea, and South Korea, brings an end to the Korean War.

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  • WWII Egypt

    The Allies halted the Axis forces' final advance into Egypt.
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  • Centennial Olympic Park bombing

    A pipe bombs explodes in Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics, killing two people. Richard Jewell, a security guard working at a concert in the park, found the bomb, designed and placed by Eric Robert Rudolph, who was convicted of four bombings in the Southeast.

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