📜 This Day in History

July 27

• 678Unable to penetrate the city's defences, the Sclaveni gave up their siege of the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.
• 1302Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The Ottoman sultanate gained its first major victory against the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Bapheus in Bithynia.
• 1919Red Summer: Race riots erupted in Chicago after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries.
• 1955The Austrian State Treaty came into effect, ending the Allied occupation of Austria, although the country was not free of Allied troops until October.
• 1990Jamaat 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.
• 2020A major oil spill from the Colonial Pipeline was discovered in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

Born on this day

• 1612Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (died 1640)
• 1824Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and playwright (died 1895)
• 1835Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1907)
• 1929Jean Baudrillard, French sociologist and philosopher (died 2007)