April 27st Events |
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| April 27th, 2007 (April 27 2007) | Event | Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia. | |
| April 27th, 2006 (April 27 2006) | Event | Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City. | |
| April 27th, 2005 (April 27 2005) | Event | The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France. | |
| April 27th, 2002 (April 27 2002) | Event | The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10. | |
| April 27th, 1996 (April 27 1996) | Event | The Israeli military operation in Lebanon, Operation Grapes of Wrath, ends after 16 days of heavy bombing. | |
| April 27th, 1994 (April 27 1994) | Event | South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. | |
| April 27th, 1993 (April 27 1993) | Event | All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. | |
| April 27th, 1992 (April 27 1992) | Event | The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed. | |
| April 27th, 1992 (April 27 1992) | Event | Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history. | |
| April 27th, 1992 (April 27 1992) | Event | Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics win entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. | |
| April 27th, 1987 (April 27 1987) | Event | The U.S. Justice Department bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II. | |
| April 27th, 1981 (April 27 1981) | Event | Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse. | |
| April 27th, 1978 (April 27 1978) | Event | Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes. | |
| April 27th, 1977 (April 27 1977) | Event | 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster. | |
| April 27th, 1974 (April 27 1974) | Event | 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for impeachment of US President Richard Nixon | |
| April 27th, 1972 (April 27 1972) | Event | Constructive Vote of No Confidence against German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances. | Willy Brandt Quotes |
| April 27th, 1967 (April 27 1967) | Event | Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the worldied in It opens to the public the next day. | |
| April 27th, 1961 (April 27 1961) | Event | Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister. | |
| April 27th, 1960 (April 27 1960) | Event | Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship. | |
| April 27th, 1959 (April 27 1959) | Event | The last Canadian missionary leaves the People s Republic of China. | |
| April 27th, 1950 (April 27 1950) | Event | Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races. | |
| April 27th, 1945 (April 27 1945) | Event | World War II: Last German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland (the last day of World War II going on in Finland). | |
| April 27th, 1945 (April 27 1945) | Event | World War II: The Volkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication. | |
| April 27th, 1941 (April 27 1941) | Event | World War II: German troops enter Athens. | |
| April 27th, 1936 (April 27 1936) | Event | The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor. | |
| April 27th, 1933 (April 27 1933) | Event | Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England, acquired by John Lewis Partnership. The partnership s first shop outside London. | |
| April 27th, 1927 (April 27 1927) | Event | Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created. | |
| April 27th, 1914 (April 27 1914) | Event | Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. | |
| April 27th, 1911 (April 27 1911) | Event | Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate. | |
| April 27th, 1909 (April 27 1909) | Event | Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V. | |
| April 27th, 1904 (April 27 1904) | Event | The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson. | |
| April 27th, 1865 (April 27 1865) | Event | The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state s land grant institution. | |
| April 27th, 1865 (April 27 1865) | Event | The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison. | |
| April 27th, 1861 (April 27 1861) | Event | President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus. | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| April 27th, 1840 (April 27 1840) | Event | Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry. | |
| April 27th, 1813 (April 27 1813) | Event | War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Canada). | |
| April 27th, 1810 (April 27 1810) | Event | Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Fur Elise. | |
| April 27th, 1805 (April 27 1805) | Event | First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines hymn). | |
| April 27th, 1777 (April 27 1777) | Event | The Battle of Ridgefield: An British invasion force engaged and defeated Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War. | |
| April 27th, 1773 (April 27 1773) | Event | The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade. | |
| April 27th, 1749 (April 27 1749) | Event | First performance of Handel s Fireworks Music in Green Park, London. | |
| April 27th, 1667 (April 27 1667) | Event | The blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for ?10. | John Milton Quotes |
| April 27th, 1650 (April 27 1650) | Event | The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army. | |
| April 27th, 1578 (April 27 1578) | Event | Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise. | |
| April 27th, 1565 (April 27 1565) | Event | Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. | |
| April 27th, 1539 (April 27 1539) | Event | Re-founding of the city of Bogota, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastian de Belalcazar. | |
| April 27th, 1521 (April 27 1521) | Event | Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu. | |
| April 27th, 1509 (April 27 1509) | Event | Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict. | |
| April 27th, 1296 (April 27 1296) | Event | Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England. | |
| April 27th, 1124 (April 27 1124) | Event | David I becomes King of Scotland. | |
