By The Associated Press

              - Today is Tuesday, July 27, the 208th day of 1999. There are 157 days
                left in the year.

              - On July 27, 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom,
                ending three years of fighting.
              - In 1694 the Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial
                institution.
              - In 1789 Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the
                forerunner of the Department of State.
              - In 1861 Union Gen. George B. McClellan was put in command of the
                Army of the Potomac.
              - In 1866 Cyrus W. Field finally succeeded, after two failures, in
                laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America
                and Europe.
              - In 1940 Bugs Bunny made his "official" debut in the Warner Bros.
                animated cartoon "A Wild Hare."
              - In 1967 in the wake of urban rioting President Johnson appointed the
                Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence, the same day
                black militant H. Rap Brown said in Washington that violence was "as
                American as cherry pie."
              - In 1974 the House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to recommend
                President Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally
                engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the
                Watergate case.
              - In 1984 actor James Mason died in Lausanne, Switzerland, at age 75.
              - In 1995 the Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington
                by President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
              - In 1996 terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded
                at the public Centennial Olympic Park, killing one person and
                injuring more than 100.

              - Ten years ago workers at the Nissan Motor Corp. assembly plant in
                Smyrna, Tenn., voted against representation by the United Auto
                Workers. Eighty people were killed when a Korean Air DC-10 crashed
                in Libya.
              - Five years ago Bosnian Serbs reimposed their blockade of Sarajevo
                and fired on a U.N. convoy, killing one British soldier and wounding
                another.
              - One year ago President Clinton held a town meeting in Albuquerque,
                N.M., on the future of Social Security, during which he expressed
                skepticism about proposals to privatize part of the Social Security
                trust fund. Monica Lewinsky was interviewed by prosecutors in New
                York in a possible prelude to an immunity deal.
 

              *Happy Birthday*
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              - TV producer Norman Lear is 77.
              - Movie and drama critic Vincent Canby is 75.
              - Actor Jerry Van Dyke is 68.
              - Sportscaster Irv Cross is 60.
              - Actor John Pleshette is 57.
              - Singer Bobbie Gentry is 55.
              - Actress-director Betty Thomas is 51.
              - Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming is 51.
              - Actor Maury Chaykin is 50.
              - Singer Maureen McGovern is 50.
              - Actress Janet Eilber is 48.
              - Actress Roxanne Hart is 47.
              - Rock musician Karl Mueller (Soul Asylum) is 36.
              - Country singer Stacy Dean Campbell is 32.
              - Rock singer Juliana Hatfield is 32.
              - Actor Julian McMahon is 31.
              - Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is 22.