| General Information for July 27th 2017 |
| There are 1 public holidays today. |
| Day 208 of 2017 |
| 157 days left in 2017 |
| Week 30 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 1997 - The TV show Stargate SG-1 first airs. |
| 1996 - Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. One woman (Alice Hawthorne) is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. One hundred eleven are injured. |
| 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. |
| 1189 - Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade. |