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Today’s Highlight in History: 

On July 27, 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting. 

On this date: 

In 1794, French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and placed under arrest; he was executed the following day. 

In 1960, Vice President Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican national convention in Chicago. 

In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Nixon’s impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a “course of conduct” designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case. 

In 1996, terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park, killing one person and injuring more than 100. 

Today’s Birthdays: TV producer Norman Lear is 80. Rhythm-and-blues singer Harvey Fuqua is 73. Actor Jerry Van Dyke is 71.