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• ... that the origins of chromatography can be traced to the work of Russian botanist Mikhail Tsvet (pictured), but his work saw little use until the 1930s?
• ... that Lubbock attorney Warlick Carr filed some thirty civil suits within 24 hours against the Pecos, Texas, financier Billie Sol Estes?
• ... that almost the entirety of the Australian stout whiting catch is exported to various Asian countries?
• ... that Lithuanian artist Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas designed interiors for over sixty churches in the United States, Europe and Australia?
• ... that according to the official English account of the Battle of Skerries in 1316, the English army suffered only one casualty, yet lost the battle?
• ... that Laila Goody has been called "Norway's most awarded young actress"?
• ... that the Crawford-Gilpin House is alleged to have once changed owners due to being lost as a wager in a poker game?
• ... that the Plumed Whistling Duck eats by cropping vegetation rather than diving in water, as other ducks do?
  

• A series of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, India kills at least twenty-nine people and injures over one hundred. This was preceded by a series of bomb blasts in Bangalore, India that killed two people and injured twenty.
• The International Olympic Committee bans Iraq's team from competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics because of interference by the government in the national-level committee.
• Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member.
• India's United Progressive Alliance-led government (Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pictured) survives a confidence vote, held after the Left Front withdraws its support over the Indo-US nuclear deal.
• The first trial of a Guantanamo Bay detention camp inmate begins with Salim Hamdan, the former driver and bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, pleading not guilty to charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.

July 27: Parents' Day in the United States (2008); José Celso Barbosa Day in Puerto Rico

• 1694 – A Royal Charter was granted to the Bank of England as the English Government's banker.
• 1865 – A group of Welsh settlers arrived at Chubut Valley in Argentina's Patagonia region.
• 1880 – Second Anglo-Afghan War: In a pyrrhic victory, Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan defeated the British Army near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
• 1949 – The de Havilland Comet, one of the world's first jet airliners, made its maiden flight.
• 1953 – An armistice was signed to end hostilities in the Korean War, officially making the Division of Korea permanent by creating an approximately 4-km (2.5-mile) wide demilitarized zone running across the Korean Peninsula. (Joint Security Area pictured)
• 1996 – A pipe bomb exploded during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, killing two people and injuring 111 others.

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