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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_27" title="July 27">July 27</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/678" title="678">678</a> – Unable to penetrate the city's defences, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclaveni" title="Sclaveni">Sclaveni</a> gave up <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Thessalonica_(676%E2%80%93678)" title="Siege of Thessalonica (676–678)">their siege</a></b> of the Byzantine city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaloniki" title="Thessaloniki">Thessalonica</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1225" title="1225">1225</a> – Saint Mary's Church on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland" title="Gotland">Gotland</a>, later to become <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby_Cathedral" title="Visby Cathedral">Visby Cathedral</a></b>, was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedication_of_churches" title="Dedication of churches">consecrated</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a> – As the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_Surprise_Hurricane" title="1943 Surprise Hurricane">Surprise Hurricane</a></b> struck Texas, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces" title="United States Army Air Forces">United States Army Air Forces</a> pilot made the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance_aircraft" title="Reconnaissance aircraft">reconnaissance flight</a> into a hurricane.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953" title="1953">1953</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Armistice_Agreement" title="Korean Armistice Agreement">An armistice</a></b> was signed to end hostilities in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>, officially making the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Korea" title="Division of Korea">division of Korea</a> indefinite by creating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone" title="Korean Demilitarized Zone">a 4 km wide (2.5 mi) demilitarized zone</a> across the Korean Peninsula.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010" title="2010">2010</a> – Police in Tokyo found the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy" title="Mummy">mummified remains</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogen_Kato" title="Sogen Kato">Sogen Kato</a></b>, thought to have died in 1978, leading to widespread inquiries into the status of isolated elderly people in Japan.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Stewart,_Duchess_of_Lennox" title="Frances Stewart, Duchess of Lennox">Frances Stewart, Duchess of Lennox</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1578); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Plankinton" title="Elizabeth Plankinton">Elizabeth Plankinton</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1853); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zhonghua" title="Wu Zhonghua">Wu Zhonghua</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1917); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Duraiappah" title="Alfred Duraiappah">Alfred Duraiappah</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1975)</p>
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