The most common date given for the arrival of tobacco in England is 27th July 1586, when it is said Sir Walter Raleigh brought it to England from Virginia. One legend tells of how Sir Walter’s servant, seeing him smoking a pipe for the first time threw water over him fearing him to be on fire. On 27th July 1914, The British troops invaded the streets of dublin in ireland and began to disarm irish rebels. On July 27 1940 Bugs Bunny appeared opposite Elmer Fudd in A Wild Hare, the first of over 175 animated shorts starring the Warner Brothers cartoon rabbit. On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommended that America’s 37th president, Richard M. Nixon, be impeached and removed from office. The impeachment proceedings resulted from a series of political scandals involving the Nixon administration that came to be collectively known as Watergate.
