July 27th

July 27 is the 209th day of the year.  There are 157 days remaining until the end of the year.

82 St. Joseph of Arimathea finally gets more than 3 days worth of use out of his tomb

 

1880 A P Abourne patents a more efficient process for refining coconut oil than Les Stroud demonstrates in the first 4 minutes and 17 seconds of this clip.

 

1940 Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"

1974 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 on the first count of the indictment to impeach Richard Nixon

1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US

1997 Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16

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; there are no survivors. This is the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.

1904 Sir Anton Dolin [Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-Kay], gay English dancer/actor

1907 Ross Alexander, gay US actor  

1946 Rade Serbedzija, Serbian actor  

1948 Betty Thomas, maybe gay STLMO-born US actress/director  

 

1953 Yahoo Serious [Greg Pead], Australian actor/comedian 

1956 Carol Leifer, gay US comedienne  

1962 JC Carter, gay US pornographic actor  

1968 Julian McMahon, Australian actor (right, Christopher Atkins on left)

1968 Jorge Salinas, Mexican actor 

1970 Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Danish actor 

1970 Patrick Labbé, Canadian actor  

1971 Sean Rider, US gay-for-pay pornographic actor/US Navy  

1975 Grégoire Colin, French actor  

1975 Alex Rodriguez, serial heterosexual US baseball player  

1977 Jonathan Rhys Meyers [Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keefe], Irish actor  

1978 Thijs Römer, Dutch actor  

1981 Rafael Verga, Brazilian model  

1981 Yannis Tsimitselis, Swiss actor  

1985 Matteo Pratichetti, Italian rugger / Dieux du Stade model  

2010 Morrie Yohai, US businessman, inventor of Cheez Doodles, will have radioactive orange fingers until the end of time.