Today is Friday, July 27, the 208th day of 2018 with 157 to follow.
The moon is full. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. They include French novelist Alexandre Dumas the Younger, author of Camille, in 1824; British aircraft pioneer Geoffrey de Havilland in 1882; actor Jerry Van Dyke in 1931; singer/songwriter Bobbie Gentry in 1944 (age 74); figure skater Peggy Fleming in 1948 (age 70); actor/director Betty Thomas in 1947 (age 71); singer Maureen McGovern in 1949 (age 69); wrestler Triple H, born Paul Michael Levesque, in 1969 (age 49); actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in 1970 (age 48); actor Maya Rudolph in 1972 (age 46); Cassandra Clare, author of The Mortal Instruments series, in 1973 (age 45); former baseball player Alex Rodriguez in 1975 (age 43); actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers in 1977 (age 41); actor Taylor Schilling in 1984 (age 34); rapper Tory Lanez in 1992 (age 26); golfer Jordan Spieth in 1993 (age 25).
On this date in history:
In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, was overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. Robespierre, who encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the revolution, was himself guillotined the following day.
In 1909, Orville Wright set a record by staying aloft in a plane for 1 hour, 12 minutes, 40 seconds.
In 1921, at the University of Toronto, Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolated insulin -- a hormone they believed could prevent diabetes -- for the first time.
In 1953, a truce officially ended the Korean War, which had begun June 25, 1950.
In 1980, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, deposed shah of Iran, died in an Egyptian military hospital of cancer at age 60.
In 1986, Greg LeMond, 25, of Sacramento, became the first American to win cycling's most famous contest, the Tour de France.
In 1989, a Korean Air DC-10 crashed in heavy fog while attempting to land at Tripoli airport in Libya, killing 82 people, four of them on the ground.
In 1996, a bomb exploded at Olympic Park in Atlanta during the Summer Games, killing two people and injuring more than 100 other people.
In 2002, nine coal miners were trapped 240 feet underground in southwestern Pennsylvania when a wall collapsed, inundating them with water. A three-day rescue operation saved them all.
In 2003, legendary comic Bob Hope died of pneumonia at his home in Toluca Lake, Calif. He was 100 years old.
In 2012, the Summer Olympics opened in London, with 10,820 athletes representing 204 countries.
In 2017, Reince Priebus resigned as President Donald Trump's chief of staff, marking the shortest non-interim term in that post in history.
A thought for the day: "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom." -- Martin Luther King Jr.