On This Day In History
July 27th
1586 Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1689 Battle of Killicrankie: Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royalist force under General MacKay
1789 US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department
1866 First transatlantic telegraph cable comes ashore at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland after being laid out 1,686 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel‘s Great Eastern steamship
1921 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto
Did You Know?
1st Christian missionary in Japan, Jesuit priest Francis Xavier reaches Japan but is not permitted to enter any port until 15 August
Today in History in 1549
Would You Believe?
Queen Elizabeth II opens the 30th Olympics in London, United Kingdom (with some help from 007)
Today in History in 2012