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Today is Friday, July 27, the 208th day of 2018. There are 157 days left in the year.
On this date:
" In 1789, President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State.
" In 1866, Cyrus W. Field finished laying out the first successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe
" In 1909, during the first official test of the U.S. Army's first airplane, Orville Wright flew himself and a passenger, Lt. Frank Lahm, above Fort Myer, Va., for one hour and 12 minutes.
" In 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.
In 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president on the first ballot at the Republican national convention in Chicago.
In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban rioting, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown told a press conference in Washington that violence was "as American as cherry pie."
In 1980, on day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran...