07-26-2013, 08:08 PM
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Location: Maryland
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July 27th
1904 ~ Birthday of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1921 ~ Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announced the discovery of the hormone insulin. He shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for this.
1949 ~ Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1953 ~ The Korean War stopped. The U.S., People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea signed an armistice agreement.
1980 ~ Death of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
1984 ~ Death of James Mason, English actor.
1990 ~ Belarus declared independence from the Soviet Union.
2003 ~ Death of Bob Hope, English-born Entertainer.
2002 ~ A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine; the largest ever air show disaster.
2007 ~ Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: news helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase.
It should be interesting to see if the inevitable introduction in the near future of drones into metropolitan airspace will manage to avoid similar events.
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