1953: Korean War ends with armistice, Panmunjon.

July 27
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

1932: Two killed when U.S. Army attacks an encampment of 20,000 World War I veterans, gathered in Washington D.C. to demand bonus benefits.

1953: Korean War ends with armistice, Panmunjon.

1954: Democratically elected goverment of Jacabo Arbenz overthrown by CIA-paid mercenaries. The U.S. establishes a right-wing dictatorship which has waged a genocidal war against Guatemala's indigenous rural population ever since.


1957: Jimmy Wilson, a black farmhand from Marion, Alabama is sentenced to death for stealing $1.95 from a white woman.


1995: President Clinton signs into law the salvage logging rider, which mandates clearcutting of federal forests regardless of any environmental laws. He later claims he "didn't know what he was doing," but takes no action to slow the resulting devastation (and profits).


_ON EDIT_ forgot the link

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17214#27

The last word spoken on M*A*S*H*

Horrible finale IMHO-it had gotten way too preachy by that point anyway.