Today is Monday, July 27, the 208th day of 2015. There are 157 days left in the year.

July 27, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1789:President George Washington signs a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State.

1861: Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan takes command of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.

1940: Bugs Bunny makes his “official” debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon “A Wild Hare.”

Billboard magazine publishes its first “music popularity chart” listing best-selling retail records (in first place is “I’ll Never Smile Again” recorded by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with featured vocalist Frank Sinatra).

1953: The Korean War armistice is signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.

1960: Vice President Richard M. Nixon is nominated for president on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban rioting, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown says in Washington that violence is “as American as cherry pie.”

1974: The House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon.

1980: On day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran dies at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60.

1995: The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington by President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.

1996: Terror strikes the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park, directly killing one person and injuring 111.

2003: Comedian Bob Hope dies in Toluca Lake, Calif., at age 100.

2005: NASA says a sizable chunk of foam insulation came flying off the shuttle Discovery’s fuel bank during liftoff, prompting the space agency to ground future shuttle flights until the problem could be fixed.

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1990: Canfield Police Chief Terrence J. Shidel says a slick band of thieves is stealing gasoline from area service stations by parking a horse trailer that conceals a 1,000- gallon tank over underground tank covers and siphoning gasoline from the tanks.

Austintown Township Trustee Michael Antonoff admits that it was wrong of him to have a township police officer drive him to work at a Youngstown savings and loan when he was recovering from leg surgery, and he reimburses the township $22 but says he committed no wrongdoing in office.

The Packard Museum Association is seeking items related to Packard history for exhibit in a museum at the Kinsman House, 303 Mahoning Ave. NW.

1975: Most of the 46 school districts in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties will receive more state funding under a new formula approved by the General Assembly, but at least one, the Campbell School District, will see a decrease.

Roy A. Redfern, a Chaney graduate and sophomore at Youngstown State University, is presented the DeMolay Degree of Chevalier by the International Supreme Council of the Order of DeMolay.

The Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club of America holds its national convention at the Holiday Inn in Liberty. More than 400 cars are exhibited by about 1,000 club members, some coming from California.

1965: Boardman trustees report that water pressure in the township, which has been dangerously low, is back to normal after a weekend rainfall.

Eight youths from Struthers and Poland are arrested at the Twin Kiss dairy bar on Youngstown- Poland Road after the store’s manager complains to police about youths creating a disturbance and using profane language.

President Lyndon Johnson announces that Anthony J. Celebrezze of Cleveland is resigning as secretary of welfare and will be nominated for a seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth District.

1940: The Wright Aeronautical Corp.’s new aircraft motor plant near Cincinnati will employ between 12,000 and 15,000 people. The Reconstruction Finance Corp. has appropriated $92 million for the plant.

Capt. Joseph Parilla of Company H, 145th Infantry, in Youngstown receives orders to add two second lieutenants to his company of about 85 men.

Edward W. Powers, 97, Columbiana County’s last Civil War veteran, dies at his home after a four-day illness. He was a member of the 171st Regiment , which was captured by Confederate Gen. John Morgan.