27 July

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 27 July:

1. In 1870, Hilaire Belloc, English author of The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, was born during a thunderstorm in France. His nickname was “Old Thunder.”
2. In 1586, Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first tobacco to England from Virginia.
3. Bugs Bunny made his "official" début in the Warner Brothers animated cartoon short A Wild Hare on this date in 1940.
4. In 1900, the H.J. Heinz Company, the one which claims 57 varieties, was incorporated.
5. In 1888, the first electric vehicle, designed by Philip W. Pratt, was demonstrated in Boston. It was a tricycle driven by storage batteries.
6. In 1949, Group Captain John Cunningham, test pilot and World War II night fighter hero, flew the world’s first jet airliner, the 40 passenger de Havilland Comet, on its maiden flight.
7. In 1986, Greg LeMond became the first American to win the Tour de France.
8. In 2001, Ian Johnstone flew to England from Australia to propose to his girlfriend, Amy Dolby. At the same time, she’d decided to fly to Sydney to pay him a surprise visit. Their stopovers in Singapore coincided, but sadly, they didn’t meet.
9. Cindy Hartman's phone rang in the middle of the night in Conway, Arkansas, on this date in 1994. When she got up to answer it, she discovered an armed burglar in her home. Her reaction was to kneel, and ask if she could pray for him. This must have triggered something in the burglar, because he broke down, apologised and knelt to pray with her. He returned her belongings, borrowed a shirt to wipe away his fingerprints, and left his gun behind when he drove away.
10. In 1964, Sir Winston Churchill made his last appearance in the House of Commons.

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