Almanac for July 27th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for July 27th: https://ko-fi.com/post/July-27-Purple-Rain-U7U6103S2Q

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Blackberries 

Bummer July 27th

July 27, 1976: Taxi driver Chester Plummer scales a fence and accesses the White House grounds armed with a pipe. Stopped by a security guard, Plummer ignores a verbal command to stop and is shot. He is taken to the hospital, where he dies, the first person known to have been shot on the White House grounds. Plummer’s motivation is unknown, but some suspect this may have been an incident of “suicide by cop.”

July 27, 1996: A bomb detonates at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, killing two people and wounding 111 others. Right-wing Christian terrorist Eric Rudolph is eventually arrested and convicted of this bombing and three others.

July 27, 2014: 20-year-old Nick Fagnano and 13 other people are struck by lightning while swimming or standing on the water near Venice Beach, California. Fagnano dies of his injuries.

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