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Notable anniversaries in history for today: July 27
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Alexandre Dumas in France; playwright/novelist (Camille).
- 100th: 1924 - Games of the VIII Olympiad closes in Paris, France.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Vincent Canby; critic (New York Times).
- 80th: 1944 - First British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor).
- 80th: 1944 - US regains possession of Guam from Japanese.
- 70th: 1954 - Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries.
- 50th: 1974 - House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommending President Richard Nixon impeachment.
- 50th: 1974 - NBC-TV airs the last episode of Dinah's Place TV show.
- 40th: 1984 - Pete Rose passes Ty Cobb as the Major Baseball League all-time single base hit leader as he collects his 3,053rd.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of James Mason at age 75 of a heart attack at his Swiss home; actor (AD, George Washington, The Search for Alexander the Great, Search for the Nile, Jesus of Nazareth).
- 30th: 1994 - Birth of Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria.
- 25th: 1999 - Twenty-one people die in a canyoning disaster near Interlaken, Switzerland.
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