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On this day, 27 July 1933, bus drivers in Havana went on strike, and other drivers soon walked out in sympathy. This was the start of the unrest that culminated in a general strike of Cuban workers and students that effectively shut down the nation and forced the brutal dictator Gerardo Machado from power.

On this day, 27 July 1988, the massacre of prisoners in Iranian jails most likely began (although the exact date is unknown). Initially Mojahedin prisoners were targeted, but in late August, communist and left-wing prisoners began to be murdered.

On this day, 26 July 1950, the No Gun Ri massacre began, when the US military murdered up to 300 South Korean civilians, in one of the biggest mass killings by US ground forces.

On this day, 26 July 1937, Gerda Taro, 26-year-old pioneering photojournalist and committed anti-fascist, was killed in a tragic accident while covering the Republican retreat after the Battle of Brunete during the Spanish civil war. Born in Germany of Polish Jewish descent as Gerda Pohorylle, she later changed her name to disguise her origins to have more commercial success, choosing a name which sounded similar to popular actor "Greta Garbo". Taro was forced to leave Germany after being arrested and imprisoned for subversive and anti-Nazi activism. In exile in Paris she met fellow Jewish exile, Endre Ernő Friedmann, and for a time they published work under the name Robert Capa. While the male half of Capa went on to global fame and acclaim, Taro remained until recently much less well-known. Although she was a hero at the time to many anti-fascists and left-wingers, and on August 1, thousands of people gathered in the streets of Paris to mourn her death.

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