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What happened on July 27 in American history
July 27 is the 208th day of the year (the 209th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 8 stories from July 27 spanning 1663 to 1983. Among them: in 1663, Parliament seals off colonial trade; all goods must now pass through England first; and in 1775, Congress votes an army hospital into being outside Boston.
1663Member story · 1776 Club
Parliament seals off colonial trade; all goods must now pass through England first
Foreign ships lose the colonial trade, and Dutch merchants lose the most.
1775Member story · 1776 Club
Congress votes an army hospital into being outside Boston
Nurses, a matron, and an apothecary are ordered up for a force still camped in tents at Cambridge.
1789
Washington signs the first agency of the new government into law
A department to handle foreign affairs becomes the executive branch's opening act under the Constitution.
1816Member story · 1776 Club
One cannonball finds the powder magazine, and Negro Fort is gone in an instant
Roughly 275 of the fort's 330 residents, mostly escaped slaves, die in the deadliest single cannon shot in American history.
1953
Armistice ends the fighting in Korea; the peace that follows is only a truce
Two years of talks end in a tent at Panmunjom, but South Korea's own president will not put his name on it.
1959Member story · 1776 Club
The Continental League is born at the Biltmore: baseball's third major
Branch Rickey signs on as president of a league that will never play a single game.
1974
Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11: Nixon obstructed justice
Six Republicans join every Democrat on the panel, three days after the Supreme Court ordered the tapes handed over.
1983Member story · 1776 Club
Madonna's debut album lands in stores
A dance-club regular with a demo tape lands a Billboard top-ten single.
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