Year 1921
Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best of the University of Toronto succeeded in separating pure insulin.
JULY 27
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27 July: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 27 July.
Year 1940
Bugs Bunny was released from the animated short film A Wild Hair.
Year 1955
The Austrian State Treaty restored Austrian sovereignty.
Year 1983
Sinhala prisoners killed 18 Tamil political prisoners at Welikada Jail in Colombo.
Year 1994
Indian Shooter Jaspal Rana won a gold medal at the World Shooting Championship.
Year 1997
DMK president M Karuna Nidhi was elected party president for the seventh time in a row. It is a record.
Year 1999
The Ministry of Petroleum in India approved a proposal to use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as a fuel for vehicles.
Year 2015
At least seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen attack an Indian police station in Punjab.
Born 1724
Pratap Singh II, the Maharana of Mewar Kingdom.
Born 1876
Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai, an eminent Tamil poet.
Born 1913
Kalpana Datta, an Indian independence movement activist.
Born 1950
V. M. Bhatt, a Hindustani classical Mohan veena player.
Born 1954
G. S. Bali, Indian lawyer and politician
Born 1955
Allan Border, an Australian cricket commentator, and former international cricketer.
Born 1960
Uddhav Bal Thackeray, the 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
Born 1963
K. S. Chithra, an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician.
Born 1983
Soccor Velho, Indian footballer (d. 2013)
Born 1990
Kriti Sanon, an Indian actress.
Born 1991
RomanSaini, Co-Founder of the Unacademy.
Died 1844
John Dalton, an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist.
Died 1970
Pattom Thanu Pillai, an Indian independence activist.
Died 1992
Amjad Khan, an Indian actor, and director.
Died 2002
Krishan Kant, the tenth Vice President of India.
Died 2015
A. P J. Abdul Kalam, an Indian aerospace scientist and the 11th President of India.