| General Information for July 27th 2016 |
| There are no public holidays today. |
| Day 209 of 2016 |
| 157 days left in 2016 |
| Week 30 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 1983 - Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days. |
| 1981 - British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show. |
| 1929 - The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations. |
| 1688 - Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee to France, allegedly throws the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames. |