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On this day: July 27

POSTED: 03:29 PM PDT Jul 26, 2012 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Jul 26, 2012

A wise-cracking cartoon bunny makes his first appearance, the Korean War ends, Madonna drops her debut album, tragedy hits the Olympics and an entertainment legend dies at age 100, all on this day.

OTD July 27 - insulin — 5 / 30

Library and Archives of Canada

1921: Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar. Banting, along with co-discoverer John James Rickard Macleod, would receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1923 for the discovery.

OTD July 27 - tobacco

OTD July 27 - Department of State

OTD July 27 - Vincent van Gogh

OTD July 27 - Chicago Race Riot

OTD July 27 - insulin

OTD July 27 - Norman Lear

OTD July 27 - Geneva Convention

OTD July 27 - Bugs Bunny

OTD July 27 - De Havilland Comet

OTD July 27 - Korean War armistice

OTD July 27 - Austrian flag

OTD July 27 - Nixon RNC

OTD July 27 - cigarette warnings

OTD July 27 - Nixon impeachment

OTD July 27 - Alex Rodriguez

OTD July 27 - Ike and Tina Turner

OTD July 27 - John Lennon green card

OTD July 27 - Adam Walsh

OTD July 27 - Madonna's debut album

OTD July 27 - Purple Rain

OTD July 27 - Greg LeMond

OTD July 27 - Titanic

OTD July 27 - Zsa Zsa Gabor 1990

OTD July 27 - Astrodome

OTD July 27 - Reggie Lewis

OTD July 27 - Korean War Veterans Memorial

OTD July 27 - 1996 Olympic bombing

OTD July 27 - Lviv air show disaster

OTD July 27 - Bob Hope

OTD July 27 - space shuttle grounded

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